NTTI+2010

Let's Look Again!

 __Description:__ Participants will leave with an increased understanding of visual literacy and the need to teach it as a 21st century skill. Using tools such as PowerPoint, voicethread and primary source photos, presenters will demonstrate inquiry lessons that require students working at the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy. Presenters will show how the visual thinking techniques can be used for activating prior knowledge, evaluating understanding and both assessing and pre-assessing a unit of study.

 __Equipment Requirements__: Presenter computer, Projector

 __Software Requirements:__ PowerPoint and the Web.

If you choose to use this, please attribute it to Paula White, Albemarle County Public Schools. The directions are on the notes pages.

So how do we get students to think visually, to carefully observe? Let's look at two powerpoint shows created from the same primary source photograph below.







 The previous two powerpoints were made by teachers in a PD opportunity with the same initial picture--but they came at it from very different perspectives. In our classrooms, perhaps when we think the connections are obvious, students make entirely different ones, just as these teachers did.

 Want to see more of the Zoom In Inquiry methd used with primary source photos? Look here: [|Instructional Strategies]

 A GREAT way to get young children involved in looking closely is through picture books as well. Check out this one, whihc is partially posted here. [|Zoom] Be sure to predict what the picture is before scrolling down.

 Another tool to use to create projects with pictures and comments is Voicethread. Below are some typical  examples of Voicethread use, with descriptions of how to set that particular project up.  [|3rd grade Language Arts]  __**[|7th graders Go Green from Mrs. Beatrice Reiser]**__ ,  __**[|11th Grade - Reconstruction from Molly Lynde]**__

 Please feel free to explore the links to the left to see many more examples of visual literacy in action. This website is a work in progress, so come back often to see the growth. Be sure to check out the link called G. American Memory Links. That section of the Library of Congress, The Learning Page will only be on the web until November, 2010.