A.+Background

Visual Literacy... Both the world and the web are becoming more and more powerful with multiple ways to interact and use visual cues. Commercials on TV use special effects or engage us through visual cues that surprise, delight or amaze us. Billboards at ball games constantly flash news or events; even churches and often plays or performances include a screen with visuals as well. Visual messages are all around us, constantly bombarding us.

As Lynell Burmark says, on her visual literacy [|website], "Today, clearly, we live in a visual world. Our news comes to us through visual media: illustrated magazines and newspapers, movies and television, and visually engaging sites with streaming video from the Internet. Thanks to ubiquitous televisions, Iraqi Freedom unfolded in our living rooms. And who can ever forget the planes crashing into the twin towers of the world trade center on September 11th?"

This wiki is a collection of resources for teachers to use with other learners--whether those learners be teachers in a Professional Development setting or students in a K-12 setting.

Children live in a visual world: [|This UK site] has lessons that connect traditional literacy with visual literacy. [|This site] is for students in grades7-8 ands speaks to "framing" an image. They use the book, [|Zoom], which is an awesome one to help anyone see the power of visuals and get them thinking about looking carefully.