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.
Room 208 - Bonus Lit Circles
Great to get students to take the discussion seriously when you're not around. Plus there is room for creativity that connects with the reading and their discussion group.
We should encourage children to develop their visual literacy skills because it will help them support their understanding, building on their home experiences and developing writing.
Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world.
Introduction to the new literacies used by today's digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital revolution) and their need for multimedia materials to match their new way of learning.
The new literacy is the ability to read and produce texts that contain not only words but also photographs, videos, info-graphs, art work, excel spread sheets, etc.
As it has been said, an image says more than 1000 words. Lots of images that have been able to go through society and become part of it. Logos and signs.
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
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
Visual Literacy, “a person’s ability to interpret and create visual information—to understand images of all kinds and use them to communicate more effectively,
efines visual literacy as “a learned skill, not an intuitive one. It doesn’t just happen. O
When we teach for visual literacy, we involve children in thinking about and expressing in images what is often beyond linguistic capabilities