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Visual Literacy
Images, lesson plans, ideas, infographics and other resources to use when developing visual literacy in kids.
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Royalty Free Image Resources | Listly List

High quality images don't need to cost an arm & a leg. These sites offer images that are free to use for personal or commercial use! Just be sure to pay attention to copyright licensing for each. Most are CC0, but not all. We've made note of how each of these sites can be browsed (how & if they are searchable). Searchable is great if you know what you're looking for. Sites that are not searchable, while time consuming, can be great for inspiration when you aren't quite sure what you want. | NEW
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Visual Literacy Through Children's Picture Books

Visual Literacy Through Children's Picture Books | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
Use picture books to help kids think about what they see, and guide them toward becoming media-savvy in real life.
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Asking kids to really look at and engage with picture books is an excellent way to enhance their skills in visual literacy. Here are some sample questions you could use. 

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Comic Poster- What Students Should Know about Creative Commons Licenses

Comic Poster- What Students Should Know about Creative Commons Licenses | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
July 2, 2014
Here is another excellent infographic on the different Creative Commons Licenses. As most of you know, Creative Commons (CC) is a licensing non-profit body that provides content...
Terry Doherty's curator insight, July 3, 2014 1:51 PM

Visuals help we "older learners" too. Whether it is for schoolwork, blogging, or social sharing for fun, understanding the various Cerative Commons Licenses is not just useful, it's invaluable.

Maria Richards's curator insight, July 3, 2014 7:18 PM

A 'constant' in teaching!!!

 

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- Learning 2.012 – Deconstructing to Construct: Visual Literacy

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Lots of great questions in a slideshare by Frank Curkovic to guide kids in exploring images. 

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16 Fancy Literary Techniques Explained By Disney

16 Fancy Literary Techniques Explained By Disney | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
Because why waste money on an English degree when you can just watch Disney movies?
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Simple explanations with examples from Disney movies. 

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46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom

46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it

Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences).

The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency...


Via Baiba Svenca
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An almost overwhelming but potentially useful list.

maite collados's curator insight, January 14, 2014 11:24 AM

Las infografías son una herramienta muy útil por su factor visual: en poco espacio y de forma visulamente agradable y atrayente, engloba datos y relaciona conceptos.

ManufacturingStories's curator insight, July 30, 2014 7:50 AM

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Free Steampunk Collage Sheets

Free Steampunk Collage Sheets | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
It can be difficult to find good steampunk imagery - clockwork machines, gears, and all that steam- powered machinery that is so beautiful!
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Great steampunk collage sheets - free to download. 

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The Book Chook: Visual Literacy - Investigate and Play with Images

The Book Chook: Visual Literacy - Investigate and Play with Images | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Help kids develop skills in visual literacy by using picture books, apps, websites and other media. 

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10 ways to use word clouds in the classroom

10 ways to use word clouds in the classroom | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
Word clouds are a popular way of representing information and they can be seen everywhere. But how can we use them in the classroom? Here's a list of ten easy tried and tested ways to use them to s...

Via Primary English
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Useful reminders on word cloud versatility. 

Primary English's curator insight, March 22, 2013 2:08 PM

Ten easy ways to use word clouds to inspire reading and writing.

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20 Posters for Disney Classics

20 Posters for Disney Classics | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
First, thanks for all the interest in our recent TV shows posters and all the nice reactions. In the future we plan to expand this project but today it's a different set of posters. Even though we'...
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Minimalist posters, this time for Disney movies

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Tips for Teaching Visual Literacy for the Common Core > Eye On Education

Tips for Teaching Visual Literacy for the Common Core > Eye On Education | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
The following blog post is part of a blog series called "Comments on the Common Core," written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis...

Via Mary Reilley Clark, Patricia Sarles
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The Book Chook: Create Interactive Images with ThingLink

The Book Chook: Create Interactive Images with ThingLink | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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ThingLink is an interesting way to embed links and other media into an image to present information. 

Alison Hewett's curator insight, February 16, 2013 6:25 PM

Make photos copme aliove with embedded links etc

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Toys from Trash

Toys from Trash | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
Gallery of Arvind Gupta's Fun Science Toys hosted at ArvindGuptaToys.com - Page by Samir Dhurde
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Great gallery of projects showing kids how to convert trash to toys. Visual literacy aspect from the annnotated images that give directions. Good models for kids to follow. 

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Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!

Choose your favorite colors and get thousands of cool combinations.
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Great way to learn about and play with colour. Press space bar on your keyboard to generate new palettes. 

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12 ways to read a picture book...with Ernie Bond

12 ways to read a picture book...with Ernie Bond | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it

12 things to look at when reading images and three simple questions to help develop visual literacy. 

Terry Doherty's curator insight, July 28, 2014 2:59 PM

This was a prequel step, but "allow yourself to wonder WHY" is so important and freeing.

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Teach Copyright Basics with a Cool Interactive Tool

Teach Copyright Basics with a Cool Interactive Tool | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it

The Search Results: Among other useful materials, I stumbled across a pretty neat interactive image on the Cyberbee site that answers some common student questions about copyright, including the one that sent me over the edge!


Via Jamie Forshey
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Nice simple interactive to help explain copyright to kids. 

Cecile McVittie's curator insight, January 17, 2014 11:35 AM

This is a nice little graphic for elementary schools who are teaching #digcit

Dean Mantz's curator insight, January 17, 2014 12:43 PM

Thanks to Jamie Forshey for sharing this copyright teaching resource via her scoop.it curation page.  I will be sharing this with my elementary and pre-service teachers. 

Gina Paschalidou's curator insight, February 26, 2014 1:00 PM

Teach your students about copyright laws.

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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images

Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Recommendations for public domain images from Free Tech 4 Teachers.

Terry Doherty's curator insight, August 9, 2013 11:02 AM

Kids need pictures for projects, but they also need to understand copyright, intellectual property, and plagiarism. This can help with that.

 

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Mathematical Art Presented by the American Mathematical Society

Mathematical Art Presented by the American Mathematical Society | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it

"The connection between mathematics and art goes back thousands of years. Mathematics has been used in the design of Gothic cathedrals, Rose windows, oriental rugs, mosaics and tilings. Geometric forms were fundamental to the cubists and many abstract expressionists, and award-winning sculptors have used topology as the basis for their pieces. Dutch artist M.C. Escher represented infinity, Möbius bands, tessellations, deformations, reflections, Platonic solids, spirals, symmetry, and the hyperbolic plane in his works.

 

"Mathematicians and artists continue to create stunning works in all media and to explore the visualization of mathematics--origami, computer-generated landscapes, tesselations, fractals, anamorphic art, and more."

 


Via Jim Lerman
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Help kids connect Maths with Art 

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Music Mathematics Man
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Provides an insight into the cross integration between Maths and Arts. This is a great link, for a foray into higher order thinking, and visualisation. Could be a valuable resource for upper primary, in linking their mathematical learning to a more meaning context (in linking to their experiences of art in nature and in man-made objects around them) –


There are links to galleries & exhibitions – which could translate into a class excursion. 

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Pencil Play Collective: Past Themes

Pencil Play Collective: Past Themes | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Group of illustrators interperet monthly themes. Great to share and discuss with kids. 

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They Draw & Travel

They Draw & Travel | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Excellent site for not only visual literacy, but young map lovers. 

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PicLits.com - Create a PicLit

PicLits.com - Create a PicLit | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Not particularly high-tech but a great way to engage kids with words and images. 

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Le papier ne sera jamais mort / Paper is not dead on influencia.net !

À l’époque où le débat fait rage entre les prescripteurs du « tout numérique », et les irréductibles défenseurs du papier, Le Trèfle prend position avec son nouveau…
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Wonderful toilet paper aid where no language is needed to understand. Great model for kids interested in making own ads! 

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Minimalist Children’s Story Posters | GBlog

Minimalist Children’s Story Posters | GBlog | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Minimalist posters that depict a children's story

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The Book Chook: Questions to Promote Visual Literacy

The Book Chook: Questions to Promote Visual Literacy | Visual Literacy | Scoop.it
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Questions can help kids build visual literacy skills. Some examples, using prompts like "What if?","How?" etc

Maria Richards's curator insight, May 5, 2013 6:34 PM

The colours in thIs visual image gently appealing.

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Web Literacy - Websites to Validate | November Learning

These are sites that can be used with students when teaching them about Web literacy.
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Useful resources for teaching kids to evaluate a website as part of InfoLit - certainly some VisLit elements too. 

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