Visual Literacy
Defined
 

Visual Literacy:
Readings
 

  Visual Literacy  
©2008 Frank W. Baker
 see also: Images of War; Media magazines; Semiotics/Signs;
2007 Photos of the Year       2006 Photos of the Year

• Advertising & Visual Literacy
• ALA Visual Literacy Web Resources
• American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS series)
• Animaction
• Art of Digital Storytelling
• Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
• The Camera Always Lies: Breaking the Myth of Objectivity
• The Changing Face of Photo Journalism
• Children as Photographers (UK)
• Codes of Visual Texts
• The Critical Eye: how visual literacy has become a vital tool for
  negotiating modern culture
• Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War, Lesson Plan
• Decoding Visual News Content
• Digital Cameras In The Classroom
• Digital Photography Lesson Plans
• Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
• Discovering How Images Communicate (pdf)
• Ethics in Photography
• Expanding the language of photographs
• Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide
• Genius of Photography (BBC series)
• Grammar of Visual Design (from Enhancing Literacy in Secondary English)
• How do we read a photograph?
• How the media persuade: verbally and visually
• How to Make & Use A Pinhole Camera
• How Media Products Make Meaning
• Images & Influence (web quest)
• Images In Action (Teaching Tolerance)
• Images of American Political History 
• International Visual Literacy Association
• In The Mind's Eye: Our Emerging Visual Culture
• Introducing Photography Techniques:
  Some Basic Vocabulary for Teaching Kids How to See
• Introducing Visual Literacy
• Introduction to Imagetext & Other Mixed Modes
• Just Another Trendy Theory: Finding Space in the Curriculum for
  Teaching Visual Literacy
• Kodak: Education Photography Lesson Plans
• The Language of Photography (KCSM telecourse)
• Learning From Pictures (Media Literacy Review)
• Literacy Through Photography
• Literacy Through Photography: Discover The World Through Visual Literacy
• Making The Grade: Understanding Visual Literacy
• Memory Can Be Manipulated By Photos (study)
• Moving Images In the Classroom (BFI)
• No caption needed
• No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That. (NYT)
• Periodic table of visualization methods
• The Photograph: From Art To Documentary
• Photography Special (US News & World Report)
• Photo Literacy- background and curriculum
• Picture History
• Picture This: Using Photography To Teach Science, Math, Writing
• A Poster on Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
• Powerful news photographs - the kind that trigger deep emotions - often help decide the course of history
• The Power of Images (CML)
• Reading Images
  (from Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques, Jim Burke)
• Reading Images, An Introduction to Visual Literacy
• Reading Photographs
• Reading Photographs
• Reading The Images of Our Culture
• Resources for teaching with photographs
• A Rubric for analyzing and interpreting historic portraits and photographs
• Seventh Grade Students and the Visual Messages They Love
• Student Curriculum In Photography
• Talking about visual texts with students
• Teaching Digital Photography:
                          Showing Kids How to See With the Camera's Eye
• Teaching For Visual Literacy (50 Great Films)
• Teaching Visual Literacy Through Graphic Novels
• Teaching Visual Literacy To Students
• Teach them to see
• Televisuality
• Thinking Visually
• Thirteen Photos That Changed The World
• Thoughts on Visual Literacy
• A Thousand Words: Promoting Teachers' Visual Literacy Skills
• Understanding Historical Photographs
• Understanding Primary Sources: Reading a Historical Photograph
• Using Movies To Improve Visual Literacy (NCTE)
• Using Photography to Tell A Story (NCSS)
• Visual Communication, Visual Literacy (MCS) 
• Visual Education  
• Visual Language teaching resources
• Visual Literacy (21st Century Skills)
• Visual literacy and 21st Century Skills
• Visual Literacy and the Classroom
• Visual literacy & The Internet (chapter from Image Matters)
• Visual Literacy In Classrooms 
• Visual literacy: primary sources for the classroom
• Visual literacy unit for grades 7-8
• Visual Literacy, Visual Learning: Integrating Visual Imagery into the Early Childhood Classrooom
• Visual Literacy White Paper
• Visual Literacy Worksheet
• Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy: Writing About Photography
• Visual storytelling through lighting
• Visual text analysis guideposts
• When The Camera Lies
• When Your Eyes Tell You Lies - distortion of mass media - Critical Essay
• Wondering with and about images