• Intro
• Online Activities
• Activity Plans
• Bank of Questions
• Learning Objectives
• Additional Resources
• Basics
• Comments

TRANSLATION

These exercises, questions, and additional resources will help students learn about the multiple relationships between images and text. Strategies focus on the cognitive processes involved in translating between words and image.

Exercises

• Studio History Exchange (Catherine Hays)
• Literary Visualization (Matthew Kirschenbaum)
• Learning to "See" and to "Describe" (Elsa Barkley Brown)
• Visual Literacy and Photoshop (Nikki Stewart)
• Gender Rules Quiz (Jo Paoletti)
• Mental Pictures (Shawn Parry-Giles)
• Visual Literacy Tutorial
• Developing Visual Literacy: Exploring Form, Content and Context with Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach 2

Questions (Examples from the Bank of Questions)

• FORM Question #5: How do the pictorial elements, such as color, line, shape, space and texture, relate to the thematic elements of the image?
• CONTEXT Question #2: What is the history of this image?

Teaching Visual Literacy to Students with Technology, funded by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of History and the Visual Resources Center. This site is the result of a collaboration between Elsa Barkley Brown, Zac Gordon, Kelly Quinn, Kimberlee Staking, Nikki Stewart, Catherine Hays Zabriskie and the Visual Literacy Working Group.