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@amyburvall
Image is Everything:Exploring Visual Literacy
for Critical Thinking
bit.ly/imagED
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http://bit.ly/imagEDdrawing app
(Paper 53 recommended)
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Introductionssee G-doc “Activities”
life in 3 emoji
CSI of you
3 of me
how am I? sketch
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story of me in 3
what 3 images tell your story?
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dual codingand
picture superiority effect
Allan Paivio
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caves at Chauvet 32-30,000 BP
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Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more visual/ oral
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Scholars will be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years
- Thomas Edison
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disclaimer:
don’t stress out about your artistic
abilities… this is about thinking
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Make the Mundane Matter
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@donalddrawbertson
Unexpected Mediums
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Challenge: draw your favorite activity
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Now draw the same thing again…
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Which was better?
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Don’t THINK about making ART - just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding, make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol
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“Unflattening” - PhD as graphic novel @Nsousanis
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External memory aids
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Are YOU a Visual Thinker?
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Are YOU a Visual Thinker?
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“If only we could pull out our brain
and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso
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confidence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS (besides Creativity)
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“Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”
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golf course architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype
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important in cross-cultural groups, for whom visual sketches can bridge gaps of understanding
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Images existed before words, and they do convey a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien
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media literacy and
digital fluency
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metaphorical thinking
+iconography
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use metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex and abstract ideas
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first symbols man created
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century
― Marshall McLuhan
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what did you think of first?
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The Dot and the Line, 1963
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The Dot and the Line, 1963
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Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun
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analogies game
word bank of nounsseek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind
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mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)
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Metaphor is about association + relationship
“EYE-DEAS”
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Metaphor is about association + relationship
“EYE-CANDY”
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Metaphor is about association + relationship
making ideas “grow” better
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Metaphor is about association + relationship
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feline devastation
starlight fir
@serendipidoodle
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try a Serendipidoodle
http://bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer
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Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)
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symbolic Beatles’ songs
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collaborative creativity: #remash
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student logo contest: “What If?”
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CrowdsourcedVisual Vocab
create dictionary of iconography
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CrowdsourcedVisual IconDictionary
- education - idea - technology - information - conflict - love - time - change - student - government - learning - imagine - travel - question
- research/curation - quote - food - success - earth/world/global - school - team/group - camera - smartphone - problem - think - imagine - writing - drawing
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Essentializing and
“Shortology”
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David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come as simple ideas
create a children’s book
explain in 3 image panel
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Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple
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condensed shakespeare, mya gosling
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MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS
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synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?
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Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Datahow did I feel about my work or my learning?
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Curation + Presentation Idea:
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images - no bullets
open-ended question to lead class in
discussion
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minimalist posters of a concept
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minimalist posters of a concept
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Infographics and DataViz
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listicle(Thinglink or info.gram)
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listicle(Thinglink or info.gram)
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use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction
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use real life items or people
photorealism
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photo essay style
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Visualize…
What’s in your head?
#ds106 challenge
*great for reflection
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Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >
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infographic remix
find an original and make it better
more clear, fun, aesthetic metaphorical, etc.
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DIY with data set
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DIY with data set
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Creation Creator Motivation Pos/Neg Effects
relations between people and ideas
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re.vuinfographic CV
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re.vuinfographic CV
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Thinglink : Metadata Me
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from Ikea’s Swedish cookbook
Blowout
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flow chart a song
(or poem, or speech)
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3 dimensional visualization of:
vocab word math problem event in history
process in science movement in political science
Make it Tangible
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BURNING HOUSE
if you had to take only
10 things…
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BURNING HOUSE
nothing material is that important
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http://webylife.com/
Graphic Design and
Typography
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metaphorical typography
“where art meets type”
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Stefan Sagmeister, metaphorical typographer
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#bowie #literalalphabet
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#literalalphabet
Bow-e
J-walk
M-bark
Y-knot
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Myconography: Metaphorical Icons
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#sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!
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try
MetaphoricalTypography
with your name, city, or #oneword to describe your day
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Sketchnoting and
Graphic Facilitation
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Visual Note-taking: some basics
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Visual Note-taking: some basics
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Sketchnote Scribes G+
(linked on the side menu)
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you begin to see things you never noticed before.… you get closer to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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visible thinking: marginalia
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networked reading @MrZiebarth
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develop your own vocabulary
@TracyClark08
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Crowdsourced Sketchnotes of Encouragement
@ktenkely
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Colour Palette
Use ColourLovers site (http://www.colourlovers.com/ ) if you can
*if not, just make it up
Think of a concept, idea, person, etc. from your discipline
assign a palette to them + justify your reasoning
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http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add
To Kill a Mockingbird palette excerpt @wickeddecent
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Bio: stage in a process i.e. meiosis, mitosis, cellular respiration
Chem: palette for each major family on the periodic table
P.E.: color coded system for tracking achievement
Art or Poli Sci: Movements
Explaining Intentions is the Key
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Lynda Barry’s notebook grid
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develop your own
“visual voice”
sketchnotes by @MrZiebarth using Paper 53 Think Kit
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put it on a tee!
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make it an ironic tee!
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Ironic T-Shirt
alone or with a partner
draw a t-shirt shape to fill the page
think of concepts, vocabulary + people in your discipline
try to make a pun / play on words / portmanteau
illustrate as appropriate (the image can be the funny part too)
(10-15 min)
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Photography and
Cinemagraphs
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a camera teaches you to
SEEwithout a camera
photo safaris
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stuff your eyes with wonderRay Bradbury
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Find Whimsy in the World
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weekly photo challenge
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low barrier entry points: photo-a-day
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Photo Challenge Calendar
with partners from your discipline, plan 1 month of photo challenges (shoot for 30 ideas)
*try the silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be technically easy (low barrier) but mentally stimulating, reinforcing the concept
(10 min)
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“Ocean Pollution”
power of a simple image
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Snap-enger Hunt with SnapChat
(photos now used for talking)
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cinemagraphs(mood? process?)
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cinemagraphs(mood? process?)
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unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos every 10 days
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low barrierof entry points
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TIME
what if we had…
drop everything and draw
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environment: graffiti wall
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thoughtfully consider every space
as creative space
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The StudioProduction
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The StudioProduction
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Big Lens or
Pixlromatic
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Motion Portrait app
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Motion Portrait app
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pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reflection
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pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reflection
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Paper by Fifty-Three
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draw over photos (even over
tweets)
Paper 53 for iPhone
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Chomp by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched together in iMovie
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Chomp by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched together in iMovie
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Creative Speedsketching
Video: Digital and Hybrid
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Creative Speedsketching
Video: Digital and Hybrid
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the power of the cut
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the power of the cut
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When people ask me if I went to film school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’
Quentin Tarantino
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Plan a VlogMashin the style of 50 People 1 Q
with partners from your discipline or alone
what question could you pose for students to answer and create a “vlog mash”?
think deep, open-ended provocations, but ones that require short, poignant responses
(5 min)
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VlogMash: What’s in a Word?
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VlogMash: What’s in a Word?
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PAPER 53 APPLE KEYNOTE MAGIC MOVE
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PAPER 53 APPLE KEYNOTE MAGIC MOVE
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draw on phone and import to laptop
layer in Keynote
duplicate slide + move a little
apply “magic move” as transition
import to iMovie, speed up when needed
add music and sound effects
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PAPER 53 REFLECTOR APP iMOVE
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PAPER 53 REFLECTOR APP iMOVE
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OREO Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object) *if you need more you can partner with someone
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict some concept you teach / advertise your content
you may change the Oreo any way you like!
1,2,3 photos
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from @wickeddecent Pop Culture class
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Create a Band
meet with 1-3 other people in your same discipline
(20 min)
Band Name= Title of Wikipedia article regarding some aspect of your curriculum
Album Title: Quote or pieces of quote from someone key to your discipline (famous ruler, philosopher, artist, scientist
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Create a BandSong Titles: relate to a concept you are teaching
(20 min)
Cover Art= Use search terms related to your subject area OR a random Flickr or Instagram search (#tagged)
http://5card.cogdogblog.com/OR try 5 card Flickr
Produce using an app, Photoshop, Gimp, PicMonkey
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your big takeaway
a question
your personal challenge
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@amyburvall
(on all social media)