A
- A Thousand Words: Promoting Teachers’ Visual Literacy Skills
- Advertising & Visual Literacy
- ALA Visual Literacy Web Resources
- American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS series)
- Analyzing A Visual Text (Pearson)
- Analyzing editorial cartoons
- Analyzing a photograph: A how to guide
- Analyzing photographs inspires visual literacy and critical thinking in students
- Analyzing prints & photographs (Library of Congress)
- Anatomy of a visual message
- Animaction
- Are you visually literate? Are your kids?
- Art & The Semiotics Of Images: 3 Questions About Visual Meaning
- Art of Digital Storytelling
- Art of Persuasion (PBS: How Art Made The World)
- Artist’s ToolKit: Visual Elements & Principles
B
- Basic Principles of Visual Literacy
- Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
- Before Photoshop: How Photography Has Manipulated Images for Years
- Better Learning and Expressing of Learning through Visual Literacy
- Breaking Down An Image C
- The Camera Always Lies: Breaking the Myth of Objectivity
- Center for the Study of Political Graphics
- The Changing Face of Photo Journalism
- Children as Photographers (UK)
- Civil Rights photography exhibit
- CLICK: Photography Changes Everything (Smithsonian)
- Codes and conventions in photography
- Codes of Visual Texts
- Color in visual texts
- Color symbolism
- Color Symbolism Theories
- Common Core & Visual Literacy Strategies (Edutopia)
- Comparing FSA Photographs by Ben Shahn: A Lesson in Media Literacy (Middle Level Learning, May/June 2009 issue)
- Comprehension Strategies Visualizing and Visual Literacy
- Connecting the Dots: The Unexplored Promise of Visual Literacy in American Classrooms
- Conveying Meaning Without Words
- Creative Commons/Public Domain Image Resources
- The Critical Eye: how visual literacy has become a vital tool for negotiating modern culture
- Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War, Lesson Plan
D
- Decoding The Visual Language of TV Watching
- Decoding Visual News Content (thesis)
- Deconstructing Editorial Cartoons
- Deconstructing Photographs (social studies)
- Defining Images in Baby Boomer History
- Depth of Field Guide
- Developing student’s visual literacy through scaffolded image inquiry
- Digital Cameras In The Classroom
- Digital Image Manipulation: A Compelling Means to Engage Students in Discussion of Point of View and Perspective
- Digital Photography Lesson Plans
- Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
- Discovering How Images Communicate (pdf)
- Drawing the line on images of death (Haiti earthquake coverage)
E
- Early film’s influence on art
- Elements/Principles of Design
- Ethics in Photography
- Every Picture Has A Story
- Examining Aspects of Images (Guiding Questions for Media Images)
- Expanding the language of photographs
- Exploring visual literacy through a range of texts
- Eye on Image-Making: Looking vs. Seeing
- Explain the Image (Critical Thinking Consortium)
- Exploring Images In (and Out of) Context
F
- Filmmaking: The Story Becomes a Film
- Five C’s Approach to Visual Texts
- Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide
- Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition
G
- Genius of Photography (BBC series)
- Get The Picture: Thinking About Photographs
- Getting Analytical With Media Images
- Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: ‘We were ashamed’
- Grammar of Visual Design (from Enhancing Literacy in Secondary English)
- Great questions for students to consider
H
- The Heart of the Matter: Image and Text
- How Civil War Photography Changed War
- How Color Affects Purchases
- How do we read a photograph?
- How the media persuade: verbally and visually
- How to analyze & question a photogaph
- How to analyze a photograph (HRW)
- How to analyze a photograph (Understandmedia)
- How to analyze a photograph
- How to Make & Use A Pinhole Camera
- How to read a painting
- How to read photographs
- How Media Products Make Meaning
I
- Ipad Photography Ideas for Kids
- I See, I Do: Persuasive Messages and Visual Literacy
- Image Analysis (MediaKnowItAll)
- Image Based Culture: Advertising & Pop Culture
- Images & Influence (web quest)
- Images convey ‘depths of pain’ beyond words
- Images In Action (Teaching Tolerance)
- Images demand deeper look
- Images of American Political History
- Images, politics and multiliteracies: using a visual metalanguage
- The importance of visual/media literacy
- Informational graphics: the visual dimension
- International Visual Literacy Association
- Interpreting Visual Grammar
- In The Mind’s Eye: Our Emerging Visual Culture
- Introducing Photography Techniques: Some Basic Vocabulary for Teaching Kids How to See
- Introducing Visual Literacy
J
- Jump Starting Visual Literacy: Thoughts on Image Selection
- Just Another Trendy Theory: Finding Space in the Curriculum for Teaching Visual Literacy
K
L
- Language of photographs
- The Language of Photography (KCSM telecourse)
- Language of the image (NewsU course)
- Learning From Pictures (Media Literacy Review)
- Learning to Look At Images
- Literacy and the Necessity of the Visual
- Literacy Through Photography
- Literacy Through Photography: Discover The World Through Visual Literacy
- Looking at Infographics With A Critical Eye
- Looking at photographs: questions to ask
M
- Making of a Kodak Moment (TIME)
- Making The Grade: Understanding Visual Literacy
- Many Eyes: Visualizations
- Meanings of Colors
- Media Literacy: Analyzing Visual Images (Facing History)
- Memory Can Be Manipulated By Photos (study)
- Moving Images In the Classroom (BFI)
- Moving toward Visual Literacy: Photography as a Language of Teacher Inquiry
N
O
P
- Periodic table of visualization methods
- The Photograph: From Art To Documentary
- Photography: Composing a narrative
- Photography Special (US News & World Report)
- Photo Analysis Guide
- Photo Literacy– background and curriculum
- Photo Op (NPR Series)
- Photo Opportunities: Using photographs in the classroom
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Pics to Clicks: Understanding Social Media’s Visual Revolution
- Picture this: using photography as a learning tool in early childhood classrooms
- Picture This: Visual Literacy In The Classroom
- Picture History
- Picture This: Three Instructional Frameworks for Viewing and Representing
- 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 In A Photo (NYT)
- The Power of Images (CML)
- The Power of Images; A Primer
- The Power of the Visual
R
- Reading America’s Photographs: Photojournalism & The American Presidency
- Reading An Image (Study Guide)
- Reading Images (Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques)
- Reading Images, An Introduction to Visual Literacy
- Reading Photographic Images for meaning
- Reading Photographs
- Reading Photographs
- Reading Photographs (video/transcript)
- Reading The Images of Our Culture
- Reading Visual Images
- Reading Words and Images (Polaroid)
- Resources for teaching with photographs
- Rule of Thirds
S
- Seeing the Digital: Emerging Visual Literacies
- Seeing The Future: A Guide to Visual Communication
- Seeing Through A Photojournalist’s Eyes (worksheet)
- Seven Things You Should Know About Visual Literacy
- Seventh Grade Students and the Visual Messages They Love
- Six Perspectives for Analyzing Any Image
- SPATER: A method for analyzing visual media
- Student Curriculum In Photography
T
- Talking about visual texts with students
- Teacher’s Guide for Photographic Discourse
- Teach Them To See: Higher Level Thinking & Photojournalism
- Teaching Digital Photography: Showing Kids How to See With the Camera’s Eye
- Teaching Kids To Read The Media (Edutopia)
- Teaching For Visual Literacy (50 Great Films)
- Teaching visual literacy and document design
- Teaching Visual Literacy Through Graphic Novels
- Teaching Visual Literacy To Students
- Teaching With Infographics (New York Times)
- Teach them to see
- Teaching With Images (wiki)
- Teaching With Online Primary Sources: Documents from the National Archives (Teaching History: A Journal of Methods)
- Televisuality
- Ten Tips For Taking Photos
- Thinking About Images (Library of Congress, worksheet)
- Thinking Visually
- Thirteen Photos That Changed The World
- Tiananmen Square: How an iconic image came to be/ A New Angle on History (AUDIO GALLERY: Tiananmen Square images)
- Thoughts on Visual Literacy
- A Thousand Words: Promoting Teachers’ Visual Literacy Skills
- Tips for Designing Infographics
- Top 10 Techniques: Guide to Better Pictures (Kodak)
U
- Understanding Historical Photographs
- Understanding Primary Sources: Reading a Historical Photograph
- Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design
- Using Documentary Photography Books with Reluctant Readers in the High School Library
- Using Movies To Improve Visual Literacy (NCTE)
- Using Photography to Inspire Writing
- Using Photography to Tell A Story (NCSS)
- Using Photos With English Language Learners (Edutopia)
- Using Visual Literacy to Help Adolescents Understand How Images Influence Their Lives (Teaching Exceptional Children)
V
- Visual Communication, Visual Literacy (MCS)
- Visual Comprehension
- Visual Education
- Visual Information Literacy: Reading A Documentary Photograph
- Visual Language teaching resources
- Visual Literacy
- Visual Literacy
- Visual Literacy (21st Century Skills)
- Visual Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
- 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 in science and technology education
- Visual literacy: news media
- Visual literacy: primary sources for the classroom
- Visual literacy: reading recommendations
- Visual literacy: stimulant to reading & writing
- Visual Literacy: Understanding the Images We Encounter
- 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: Overview ; analyzing visual documents
- Visual rhetoric Wiki
- Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy: Writing About Photography
- Visual semiotics and the production of meaning in advertising
- Visual storytelling through lighting
- Visual text analysis guideposts
- Visuals Imply
W
- Website design colors: what do they say?
- What the still photo still does best
- Writing In A Visual Age (textbook companion site)
- When The Camera Lies
- When Your Eyes Tell You Lies – distortion of mass media – Critical Essay
- Why teach visual literacy?
- Why visual literacy?
- Wondering with and about images
- World of Color (downloadable guide)
