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Pedro Aparicio

Information Literacy Weblog - 0 views

    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      It looks quite interesting.... to learn more about virtual learning spaces
  • The Library 2.012 virtual conference (to be held October 3 - 5, 2012) call for proposals end tomorrow, 15 September.  The conference is free and held online with events to suite different time zones. The broad theme is "the current and future state of libraries. Subject strands include physical and virtual learning spaces, evolving professional roles in today's world, organizing and creating information, changing delivery methods, user-centered access, and mobile and geo-social information environments." There are already a number of accepted proposals about information literacy. http://www.library20.com/page/2-012-conference Photo by Sheila Webber: washing on the line in what seems like it was the last of summer, a few days ago
Tania Hinojosa

Media Literacy Defined : National Association for Media Literacy Education - 1 views

  • eries of communication competencies, including the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.
  • Media literacy empowers people to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of an increasingly wide range of messages using image, language, and sound. It is the skillful application of literacy skills to media and technology messages.
  • Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages. Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize and analyze messages. Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages. Media education is the study of media, including ‘hands on’ experiences and media production. Media literacy education is the educational field dedicated to teaching the skills associated with media literacy.
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  • Media literacy: The ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms-is interdisciplinary by nature
  • To become a successful student, responsible citizen, productive worker, or competent and conscientious consumer, individuals need to develop expertise with the increasingly sophisticated information and entertainment media that address us on a multi-sensory level, affecting the way we think, feel, and behave.
  • Today’s information and entertainment technologies communicate to us through a powerful combination of words, images, and sounds
  • understanding our media environment.
Pedro Aparicio

BBC News - Is data visualisation just style over substance? - 0 views

  • Is data visualisation just style over substance?

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    The advent of sophisticated computer graphics has encouraged more and more use of data-visualisation - not least by BBC News.

    The clever means of presenting detailed text or statistical information in a non-conventional manner is developing fast, but some critics argue the core message is lost beneath flashy graphics and misleading information.

    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      BBC News explains the use of more data visualization today. I really recommend to watch the video. It's worth.
Luis Leon

Google Reader (836) - 3 views

  • This podcast is an audio recording of Wesley Fryer’s breakout session at the May 29, 2012, “Inspiring Excellence” conference in Kansas City Kansas Public Schools titled, “Deepening our Learning Through Storytelling: creativity, STEM and stories.
  • They define Visual Literacy (VL) as "a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media".
  • Pad: A Tool for Differentiation
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  • KSU just published a study on fluency and the importance of kids recording themselves reading at all levels, so they can set goals - iPod Touches are also GREAT for recording kid voices
  • I will lobby for an open catalog that provides personalized, interactive features that users expect in online information environments.
  • I will be willing to go where users are, both online and in physical spaces, to practice my profession.
  • I will enjoy the excitement and fun of positive change and will convey this to colleagues and users.
  • recognize that the universe of information culture is changing fast and that libraries need to respond positively to these changes to provide resources and services that users need and want.
  • will educate myself about the information culture of my users and look for ways to incorporate what I learn into library services.
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    about technology
Tania Hinojosa

Duffelmeyer and Ellertson, Critical Visual Literacy - 0 views

  • Critical Visual Literacy: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum" makes the case for expanding the pedagogical space and communication possibilities in undergraduate communication-intensive and linked (learning community) courses by allowing students to create multimodal texts that deal with civic and cultural and/or discipline-specific themes.
  • To be literate in the twenty-first century means possessing the skills necessary to effectively construct and comfortably navigate multiplicity, to manipulate and critique information, representations, knowledge, and arguments in multiple media from a wide range of sources, and to use multiple expressive technologies including those offered by print, visual, and digital tools
  • Visual culture is not limited to the study of images or media, but extends to everyday practices of seeing and showing, especially those that we take to be immediate and unmediated
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  • In our present culture, in which our information often reaches us in technological and visual forms, the work Berlin described above extends, in the 21st century, beyond exclusively and perhaps even primarily written texts.
  • education [should] concentrate, not on the transfer of information nor on the reproduction of value systems, but on the urgent task of equipping people with the necessary "thinking tools" to make sense of historical processes so that individuals may become better at assessing the "likely" verisimilitude of any account or representation of the world
  • Critical Technological and Visual Literacies in CAC: An Organic Connection
Luis Leon

Google Reader (151) - 0 views

  • There is something about the touch environment that lets the kids interact so much easier with digital content
  • Those who can interact and create are the ones who will be most successful in our society
  • We work a lot on internal motivation and individual goal setting - when kids feel vested toward a goal they usually work toward it
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  • I now have students picking the stories they want, and recording themselves recording - recording is created on a regular computer with a webcam
  • This session will focus on demonstrating a variety of portable devices, apps and software that are available to support reading across all age ranges and ability levels.
  • including visual presentation,
  • Participants will leave with an understanding of how to compare the features of these electronic reading supports to help them in deciding what option will work best to support specific student needs.
  • iPads - Kindle Fire - Nook - Tablets
  • nformation literacy skills and self-views of ability among first-year college students."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (3), 574–583. "This study replicates a previous study based on work in psychology, which demonstrates that students who score as below proficient in information literacy (IL) skills have a miscalibrated self-view of their ability. Simply stated, these students tend to believe that they have above-average IL skills, when, in fact, an objective test of their ability indicates that they are below-proficient in terms of their actual skills
  • To plant the tree you have to dig soil, fertilize, and water your seeds
  • When your virtual trees are fully grown Tree Planet and its partners will plant a real tree in Mongolia, Republic of Sudan, or South Korea. Tree Planet has partnerships with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and World Vision.
Charmaine Weatherbee

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAU... - 0 views

  • Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively
  • the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings
  • Digital and visual literacies are the next wave of communication specialization
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  • Children learn these skills as part of their lives, like language, which they learn without realizing they are learning it.
  • ommon scenario today is a classroom filled with digitally literate students being led by linear-thinking, technologically stymied instructors
  • The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu
  • Digital literacy represents a person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment, with “digital” meaning information represented in numeric form and primarily for use by a computer. Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. According to Gilster,5 the most critical of these is the ability to make educated judgments about what we find online.Visual literacy, referred to at times as visual competencies, emerges from seeing and integrating sensory experiences. Focused on sorting and interpreting—sometimes simultaneously—visible actions and symbols, a visually literate person can communicate information in a variety of forms and appreciate the masterworks of visual communication.6 Visually literate individuals have a sense of design—the imaginative ability to create, amend, and reproduce images, digital or not, in a mutable way. Their imaginations seek to reshape the world in which we live, at times creating new realities. According to Bamford,7 “Manipulating images serve[s] to re-code culture.”
Ellie Molyneux

Considerations in Cross-Cultural use of Visual Information with Children for Whom Engli... - 0 views

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    While this may not apply in all multi-cultural situations at ASF, it does relate to certain classroom situations and I was interested in the implications it has do anyone teaching in an environment where ESL practice and acculturation are primary learning goals. Excerpt "If differences in the interpretation of visual information can be identified which can be attributed to cultural background, visual material might be designed and presented taking these differences into consideration thus increasing the probability of the message intended being the message conveyed."
Tania Hinojosa

International Visual Literacy Association - 1 views

    • Lourdes Ornelas
       
      Consider joining!
  • Welcome to the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) web site. IVLA is a not-for-profit association of researchers, educators, designers, media specialists, and artists dedicated to the principles of visual literacy.
  • exchange of information related to visual literacy
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  • oncerned with issues dealing with education, instruction and training in modes of visual communication and their application through the concept of visual literacy to individuals, groups, organizations, and to the public in general.
Sarah Rachel

Why Students Should Consider Taking Visual Notes | Thinkspiration™ The Inspir... - 1 views

    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      I have done it using Evernote. Why not to try out with inspiration or webspiration classroom?
  • with visual notes, you can add related, newly presented concepts next to the original concept, right into your map. This helps you form a picture in your mind of how the information is connected. This is ideal for organizing and starting to assimilate the information.
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    Try taking visula notes, mapping out what you have heard or read
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    A blog about the importance of visual notes. 
Sarah Rachel

Google Reader (186) - 0 views

  • Students get to share their ideas in a way they can be proud of. Blogging is great for this because the posts are read not only by classmates, but also by anyone else who stumbles upon them online. Blogging promotes the development of good writing skills, so helping students take ownership of the project can help them write well. Blogging provides students with an outlet for things they may not get to share in the classroom, so giving looser guidelines on topics can bring about more interesting blog posts.
  • Gaming teaches students survival skills that they use in school and throughout their lives
  • Practical skills
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  • Teamwork
  • Goal-orientation
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    An informative guide to how to set up a student blog in the classroom.
Debora Gomez

Visualization - 0 views

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    What is visualization and why to use it
Charmaine Weatherbee

Google Reader (453) - 0 views

  • Cool graphic designs blend images and words to create an informative story or graphic about a specific topic.
  • reating InfoGraphics is a craft all unto its own
  • a really good infoGraphic is not overly graphic or too text heavy
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    An article that talks about the importance on having effective graphics.
Debora Gomez

Visual Literacy - History 296-02/Gender Studies 206 African Women: Food and Power - Res... - 0 views

    • Debora Gomez
       
      Guidelines to evaluate images Click on the source and fin more information from ADOBE education
Tania Hinojosa

New Media vs Traditional Media | AIBD - Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Develop... - 0 views

  • he mass media has at least three important roles to play: to inform, to educate and to influence opinion.
  • is changing the participation habits of the audiences.
  • Mass media enables people to participate in events and interact with communities over long distance.
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  • One needs only to think of democratic elections, World Cup soccer and royal weddings to appreciate the intensity with which people can share in these events.
  • All these worked until a decade ago when new media emerged with all the fanfare of technological innovation.
  • Welcome to the digital and internet revolution!
  • The new media, digital broadcasting and the internet are sweeping away the limitations of the analogue world and weakening the grip of government-owned platforms.
  • Most technologies described as “new media” are digital, and often have characteristics of being networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial.
  • The modern revolution enables everybody to become a journalist at little cost and with global reach
  • MEDIA AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
  • A responsibility of the media is to ensure fair, accurate and impartial reporting. A set of codes of ethics is essential to maintaining standards for media professionals and organizations.
  • A recent study revealed that a young group spent 16 hours a week to surf the internet, sometimes unnoticed by their parents.
  • COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESS
  • Messages need to be consistent and cohesive. Working online also requires keen communication skills.
Pedro Aparicio

Infographics Explained With Legos - 0 views

  • Infographics are all over the web these days. Some are useful, some are not, and some are just plain fun. Yesterday, on Cool Infographics I discovered an infographic that explains what infographics should do. The fun and somewhat informative explanation of infographics is made using Legos. Check it out below.
    • Pedro Aparicio
       
      This is a very simple way to explain what infographics do. You can also find three tools to create your own infographics: easel.ly, infogr.am, visual.ly
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    I love this image. It definitely helps understand what infographics are.
Sarah Rachel

18 Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views

  • Mind mapping. concept mapping, or brainstorming are three different names with almost the same meaning : collecting,organizing , and  representing ideas, tasks, words, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea into a mind map diagram .
  • Mind mapping enables teachers to manipulate ideas and concepts with great ease and flexibility
  • It helps present information in a visually attracting and comprehensive way
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  • t helps teachers summarize, organize, and present lecture informat
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    Different kinds of mind maps to help children with visualization.
Mariana Perez Galan

Visual literacy - 2 views

    • Jenna Kubricht
       
      Creative idea for students to use disposable camera and take pictures at home, school, wherever, and have discussions about what they saw!
  • e disposable cameras to capture instances of when they used literacy at home.
  • exploring and adding to knowledge
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  • creating a statement of identity
  • personal enjoyment
  • cementing relationships
  • organising domestic routines
  • Using visual literacy can result in: increased quantity of writing increased quality of writing wider use of vocabulary greater use of imagery increased fluency more adventurous writing improved attitude to writing greater engagement with writing greater commitment to writing improved motivation, self-esteem and enthusiasm.
  • Use of images can be a powerful tool in the teacher’s toolbox. It can stimulate children’s discussion and motivate their interest.
  • There are also many cross-curricular opportunities to link visual literacy with other core subjects.
  • Visual images are fast becoming the most predominant form of communication
  • ‘Young people learn more than half of what they know from visual information, but few schools have an explicit curriculum to show students how to think critically about visual data.
  • facial expressions, body language, drawing, painting, sculpture, hand signs, street signs, international symbols, layout of the pictures and words in a textbook, the clarity of type fonts, computer images, pupils producing still pictures, sequences, movies or video, user-friendly equipment design and critical analysis of television advertisements.
  • purposeful writing – writing which motivates, is purposeful, relevant and has an audience
  • not only teachers modelling but writing for pupils and alongside them. This leads onto the idea of teachers as talkers; modelling talk and valuing talk and its role in writing
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    Jenna, this is an excellent article, I really enjoyed reading it, it gave me some insight on visual literacy and how important it is for children to, not only develop the skills to be visually literate but to be exposed to it at home and school in the correct way.
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    I just loved this article! it made it easy for me to understand the term visual literacy and what and how to use it in class. I stole this post from Jenna K. but please take some time to look at it!
Isabel Fernandez

Bill Goodwyn: Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 0 views

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    Teachers teach. Relationship teachers- students - technology
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