Visual Literacy
Defined
 

Visual Literacy:
Readings
 

  Visual Literacy  
©2008 Frank W. Baker
 see also: Images of War; Is Seeing Believing;
2008 Photos of the year;
Media magazines; Semiotics/Signs;
 

• 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 photograph: A how to guide
• Analyzing photographs inspires visual literacy and critical thinking in students
• Animaction
• Art of Digital Storytelling
• Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
• Better Learning and Expressing of Learning through Visual Literacy
• The Camera Always Lies: Breaking the Myth of Objectivity
• The Changing Face of Photo Journalism
• Children as Photographers (UK)
• Civil Rights photography exhibit
• Codes of Visual Texts
• Comparing FSA Photographs by Ben Shahn: A Lesson in Media Literacy
  (Middle Level Learning, May/June 2009 issue)
• Connecting the Dots: The Unexplored Promise of Visual Literacy in
  American Classrooms
• 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  (thesis)
• 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
• 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
• Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide
• Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition
• Genius of Photography (BBC series)
• Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'
• 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 analyze a photograph (HRW)
• How to analyze a photograph (Understandmedia)
• How to analyze a photograph
• How to Make & Use A Pinhole Camera
• How Media Products Make Meaning
• Images & Influence (web quest)
• Images convey 'depths of pain' beyond words
• Images In Action (Teaching Tolerance)
• Images of American Political History
• The importance of visual/media literacy
• 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
• Jump Starting Visual Literacy: Thoughts on Image Selection
• 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
• Looking at photographs: questions to ask
• Making The Grade: Understanding Visual Literacy
• Memory Can Be Manipulated By Photos (study)
• Moving Images In the Classroom (BFI)
• Moving toward Visual Literacy: Photography as a Language of Teacher Inquiry
• No caption needed
• No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That. (NYT)
• Periodic table of visualization methods
• Picture this: using photography as a learning tool in early childhood classrooms
• The Photograph: From Art To Documentary
• Photography Special (US News & World Report)
• Photo Literacy- background and curriculum
• Photo Op (NPR Series)
• 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 of Images (CML)
• Reading America's Photographs:Photojournalism & The American Presidency
• 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 The Images of Our Culture
• Reading Words and Images (Polaroid)
• Resources for teaching with photographs
• A Rubric for analyzing and interpreting historic portraits and photographs
• Seeing the Digital: Emerging Visual Literacies
• 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 and document design
• Teaching Visual Literacy Through Graphic Novels
• Teaching Visual Literacy To Students
• Teach them to see
• Teaching With Online Primary Sources: Documents from the National Archives (Teaching History: A Journal of Methods)
• Televisuality
• 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
• Understanding Historical Photographs
• Understanding Primary Sources: Reading a Historical Photograph
• Using Movies To Improve Visual Literacy (NCTE)
• Using Photography to Inspire Writing
• Using Photography to Tell A Story (NCSS)
• Using Visual Literacy to Help Adolescents Understand How Images Influence Their Lives (Teaching Exceptional Children)
• 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 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 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/Visual Literacy: Writing About Photography
• Visual storytelling through lighting
• Visual text analysis guideposts
• Website design colors: what do they say?
• 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?
• Wondering with and about images