Visual literacy is the ability to encode, or create a visual language, and the ability to decode, or understand the visual language. Decoding requires creative/critical thinking skills, as moving and still images often have a conscious and unconscious meaning Visual encoding is the process of encoding images and visual sensory information. This means that people can convert the new information that they stored into mental pictures (Harrison, C., Semin, A.,(2009).

1. TOPIC
VISUAL LITERACY AND
TYPES OF VISUALS USED
IN THE CLASSROOM

2. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the presentation, we should be
able to;
1. Define the concept Visual Literacy
2. Highlight the meaning of Visual Encoding
and Visual Decoding
3. State the types of Visuals used in the
classroom

3. VISUAL LITERACY
Visual literacy is the ability to encode,
or create a visual language, and
the ability to decode, or understand
the visual language correctly.

4. VISUAL LITERACY
• VISUAL ENCODING- Involves the process of
creating images and visual sensory information.
• VISUAL DECODING- Requires creative/critical
thinking skills, as moving and still images often
have a conscious and unconscious meaning.

5. VISUAL LITERACY
Hence, Visual literacy is the ability to
evaluate, apply, or create conceptual
visual representations.

6. Types of Visuals
1. PICTURE: a photographic image of people,
places, and things.

7. Types of Visuals
2. DRAWINGS: sketches, diagrams, and
graphic representation of lines to represent
persons, places, things, and concepts.

8. Types of Visuals
3. CHARTS: visual representations of abstract
relationships such as chronologies, quantities,
and hierarchies.

9. Types of Visuals
4. GRAPHS: Illustrate the visual representation
of numerical data.

10. Types of Visuals
5. POSTERS: incorporate visual combinations
of images, colours and texts.

11. Types of Visuals
6. CARTOONS: include line drawings that are
rough caricatures of real or fictional
people, animals, and events.

12. Types of Visuals
7. Animations: are manipulated pictures to
appear as moving images.

13. Types of Visuals
8. SLIDEWARE: A generic term for the
software used create and display slide shows
such as Ms PowerPoint, Apple iWorks
Keynote, Google Drive Presentation, Zoho
Show and others.

14. TYPES OF VISUALS
9. PECHA KUCHA: A method of presenting
using a “no text” slide deck of 20 slides that
display for 20 seconds per slide.

15. Types of Visual Literacy
Other types of Visual includes Blackboard,
Whiteboard, Overhead Projector slides,
Electronic board, Realia, Models, and so on.

16. CONCLUSION
To have an effective and efficient teaching
and learning process, Visual Literacy is very
crucial to the Lecturer / Teacher in order to
avoid poor performance.
A Teacher must know the exact types of
Visuals to be adopted for the concept or topic
to be presented.

17. QUOTE
The soul never thinks without a picture. –
Aristotle

18. EVALUATION
1. What is Visual Literacy?
2. Define Visual Encoding?
3. Explain Visual Decoding?
4. Mention five(5) types of visuals used
in the classroom?

19. GROUP 1 : VISUAL LITERACY
AND TYPES OF VISUALS
ADEKUNLE, Adebiyi
OYEDELE, Aminat Morenikeji
AJIBOLA, Busayo Elijah
ABDULMUMIN, Ismail Abiodun
HUSAYN, Ibrahim Bolakale
OLADUNI, Kafilah Olaide
UBANDAWAKI, Aliyu Olayinka

20. THE END
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