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Create and share visual ideas online - vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!

" When students are able to fully "read" images, they can understand beyond the text and delve deeply into the author's message. Imagine close reading, but instead of text, they're examining images. Visual literacy encompasses the ability to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media."

"The importance of infographics in literacy education is essential. Literacy is more than just reading and writing. Literate people can infer meaning, communicate with others, and capture ideas in many different ways. With infographics, I hope that educators can broaden our students' visual literacy."

What do you look for when selecting print texts for your high school students to teach them about visual literacy? Appropriate themes, complexity of ideas, rich and beautiful illustrations, evidence of depth and layers of meaning, a variety of text type. This post present 6 titles that meet each of those requirements with the added bonus of all being by Australian authors and illustrators. Teachers notes and essays are provided for each title

"Nontraditional books can help students make connections to content at the word level and deepen understanding by providing visual context. Let's look closely at the literacy work that can be done with comics and graphic novels in literacy instruction, particularly with upper elementary and middle grades students. While some strategies helpfully focus on work at the word level, these visual texts afford additional possibilities."

So often, people think of presentation slides as just that: a visual aid for delivering a presentation in front of an audience. But these slide apps (like Google Slides and PowerPoint in Office 365) really are powerful tools for delivering interactive user experiences. They can also create visually stimulating products to deliver a message and valuable content. By thinking outside the box with Google Slides, PowerPoint and other similar tools, teachers can create unique learning experiences for students. Or students can create them to share with other students.

"This first step into doodling for learning has opened up an extensive new classroom practice for Freedman. She's been encouraging students to take visual notes for only a little over a year, but she's seen it help some students tremendously. Now she dedicates about five minutes a day for a month to sketchnote practice. She gives students lots of choices in how they want to do it -- on a whiteboard, on a digital tablet, or with paper and pencils. The point is to give them dedicated time to familiarize themselves with how they might express themselves visually."

Educational infographics and other visuals to enhance learning.

Clear, informative and visually descriptive video clip on how to avoid plagiarism with some explanation of using a referencing style

Clear, informative and visually descriptive video clip on how to avoid plagiarism with some explanation of using a referencing style

A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

In spite of their reputation for simplicity, graphic novels can display a surprising level of depth. This sense of depth can come through in a variety of ways-from the language to the interplay of words and images to the themes that can be explored in visual texts. And like novels, graphic novels employ a range of literary conventions, so they're ripe for classroom discussion.

If you are looking to be inspired and motivate your students to think and express themselves creatively through visual design, these resources will assist for Mac and iPad users

Lots of images to support this historical overview

Annotated list of sits that provide free images - rules for use vary some require no attribution, some have CC attached. Check terms of use on each site before using. These resources are fairly diverse in their content and have a lot to offer. Some are category-specific, and others are downright unique. No matter what, they can all bring creative visual enhancements to many a student project.

"Comics are an excellent resource for educators because they engage struggling readers with a visual allure."

Excellent resource to explore the different elements of the picture books. Sections include: visualize, narrative, explore, toolkit and miscellany. Example texts are from the USA

The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as to critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet, like the one we used for the Timeline above. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality.

The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas. Includes using Google Earth and Maps, Google docs and forms, devices such as ipads, ipods, IWBs and mobile phones and audio and visual tools

Electronic books offer numerous benefits: They're usually searchable, they can be made instantly accessible to the visually impaired, they're often free, and, perhaps best of all, they're accessible right now. This list compiles some of the best sources for finding great works of literature on the Web.