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Keri-Lee Beasley

Literacy Beyond Reading & Writing - Heart of a Teacher - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Nov 16
     
    "Do our students know that "literacy" moves beyond reading and writing? Most importantly, how do we begin to break our traditional understanding of literacy to include wider meaning and contexts? It has to start in the classroom. For many of our traditional classrooms, reading and writing are the core values that are focused on when it comes to literacy. We need to show students that "Literacy" moves beyond reading and writing and can encompass: cultural literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy and much more."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

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  • Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
  • Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
  • Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15
     
    Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.
David Caleb

Reading photographs - 1 views

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  • Photographs have tremendous power to communicate information. But they also have tremendous power to communicate misinformation, especially if we’re not careful how we read them. Reading photographs presents a unique set of challenges. Students can learn to use questions to decode, evaluate, and respond to photographic images.
  • What happened just before this moment, or just after it?
  • The photograph of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, is one of the most common images of the recent war in Iraq. A closeup shot shows a crowd of primarily Iraqis toppling the statue. A wide shot of the same scene would have revealed that the crowd in the square was made up of primarily US forces and journalists.
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  • One type of photography in which setting is very important is travel photography.
  • Using landmarks, monuments, or famous natural elements in a photograph is a core technique for evoking a sense of place.
  • The photographer selects the focal point not only by focusing the camera but also through other techniques.
  • shutter speed to bring only one element into focus immediately elevates that to the most important part of the image.
  • one element in the photograph is strongly backlit, it may seem to glow and thus draw the viewer’s attention.
  • What is the photographer’s thought process as she composes, frames, shoots and selects an image? Listen as photographer Lisa Maizlish narrates the decisions she made in photographing the students featured on the PBS reality show American High.
  • viewers have to decide how to interpret a photograph’s context
  • information about the people, events, setting, and so on are made explicit by the photographer — there are distinct visual clues that tell us who the people are, what they are doing, and where and when the photograph was taken.
  • implicit — implied but not clearly communicated by the photographer, or left to be inferred by the viewer.
  • identities of the people
  • unclear
  • their purpose may be unknown
  • time and place may be difficult or impossible to discern.
  • simple "W" questions can be open to debate.
  • Viewers may not even realize that they are making those assumptions
  • Just as successful written communication requires that the writer and reader speak the same language, successful visual communication requires that the photographer and viewer share a common "visual language" of signs, clues, and assumptions.
  • Were your assumptions correct? Can you always trust your first instinct? (And even having read the caption, how much do we really know about these girls and their lives?)
  • a different culture might ask why this round brown object is
  • we have to be careful that we have enough cultural background in common with the photographer to correctly interpret what we see.
  • The photograph by itself tells us very little about what’s going on; we probably could have invented any number of captions, and you’d have believed us!
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 03 Nov 16
     
    Reading images - lots of good strategies here
  • David Caleb on 07 Nov 16
     
    Reading photos
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using New Technology to Rediscover Traditional Ways of Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Sep 15
     
    Mobile tech helps us reconnect with traditional ways of learning: Oral storytelling Visual literacy Gestures, dance & the body
Keri-Lee Beasley

Thinking Visually: Keyword Searches and Images | Ms. Pana Says - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Nov 15
     
    Pana has a great lesson plan for linking keywords, searching and visuals for G1 students.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Resources - Heather Dowd - 3 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 26 Sep 14
     
    Heather's fab resources for Visual Literacy.
Jeffrey Plaman

4 Steps to Viral, Or How to Create Infographics That Blow up the Web | Visual.ly Blog - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 02 Mar 12
     
    Great piece talking about the core of what makes a good infographic (or anything else really)... STORY
Louise Phinney

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 07 Jul 11
     
    found from link in twitter
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More than Words Alone Can Say: Writing with Images in the Digital Age - Getting Smart b... - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 02 Dec 12
     
    "Despite more than a century of being bombarded with advertising and other media, educators all too often underestimate the importance of how we communicate using images"
Keri-Lee Beasley

easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 20 Sep 12
     
    Another great took for creating infographics via @ajmccarthy
Keri-Lee Beasley

Is Your Writing Pinteresting? 3 Uncommon Ways to Curate Literary Characters - Brilliant... - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 10 May 15
     
    A visually-rich way of developing characters for writing using Pinterest.
Keri-Lee Beasley

writing prompts - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 Sep 11
     
    Visually stunning writing prompts. Lots of good ideas here...
Jeffrey Plaman

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four - YouTube - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 16 Mar 12
     
    Hans Rosling spoke at the IB Asia Pacific conference in 2012. If you don't know his work, here's a short introduction to how he uses data to tell stories.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 0 views

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  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15
     
    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Horizon Reports 2004-2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 May 11
     
    Graphic of Horizon reports from 2004-2011
Keri-Lee Beasley

Nota: free, visual, multimedia wiki-like collaborative tool | Welcome to NCS-Tech! - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Jun 11
     
    A tool that would be a useful collaborative space for upper elementary/middle school students. Allows you to add multimedia to a page easily, and organise them as you see fit.
Keri-Lee Beasley

HUMUMENT.COM - The Official Site of A HUMUMENT by Tom Phillips - 2 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 21 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 21 Aug 11
     
    In a similar vein to Blackout Poetry, the Humument takes the art form one step further to and images and colour illustrations to the 'blacked out' words. Beautiful to look at, and is a good example of how open ended a task involving blackout poetry can be. This would be what I would expect of high school students.
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