This document provides an agenda and resources for a week-long professional learning community (PLC) focusing on visual literacy. The agenda includes discussions on using visual resources in the classroom, visual perception, discovering visual literacy resources, and an integrated strands scavenger hunt involving visual representation. It also presents examples of optical illusions and the power of captions to change how images are perceived. Resources on visual literacy from the National Film Board and Brock University library are shared. The document concludes with details on next week, which will not include PLCs or Sakai posts.

1. Week 11-
Visual Literacy

2. PLC- Visual Literacy (Any Strand)
Discuss the following article/sites/blogs from the visual standpoint each group member
took in order to explore these multiliteracies text.
How to Use Online Video in the Classroom
Inventing Infographics: Visual Literacy Meets Written Content
The Kids Should See This Watch Now Learn
Infographics for Language
Learning Kathy Schrock Guide to Everything
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3. Agenda
1. PLC- Visual Resources for the Classroom (Any Strand)
2. Visual Perception
3. Visual Literacy- Resource Discovery- A Picture is worth 1000 Words
4. Integrated Strands Scavenger Hunt- Visual Representation
5. Grammar Lesson – Howe do I teach Grammar?
6. Oral Communication Blog Feedback
7. Next Week at a Glance
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4. A PICTURE IS WORTH
A THOUSAND WORDS
A complex idea can be
conveyed with just a single
still image, namely making it
possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly.
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5. Visual Representation and Perceptions
Visual Literacy
What do you see?
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Now, what
do you
see?

7. What do you see?
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8. What do you see?
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9. What do you see?
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10. Optical Illusions
https://youtu.be/QTC-
0F3gJhQ
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11. What do you see?
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5 Critical Reflection:
1. How does our visual
perception influence
meaning making?
2. How might you use
an activity like this in
our own classroom?
3. Why is it important
to teach students
about visual
perceptions, visual
representation, and
visual literacy in
general?

12. The Power of Captions 12

13. The Power of Captions 13

14. The Power of Captions 14
Task: With your group, choose one visual and the captions that accompany this visual
and identify the curriculum expectations that could be aligned with this task.
Critical Reflection:
1. How has the activity changed by adding
captions to the images?
2. What dangers might exist when adding
captions to the images? (think of our
multiliteracies examination over the past
few weeks)
3. Why is this an important task to introduce
in junior/intermediate classrooms?

15. Visual Literacy Resources 15

16. Visual Literacy Resources 16
NFB Campus. You should be able to log in as an educator using your Brock ID
credentials. If not, ask the IRC for the school code. You can create personal
playlists and save short clips from films (some browser adjustments needed)
https://brocku.kanopystreaming.com/
Phenomenal resource for documentaries.
• Brock library home page: https://brocku.ca/library
• Under Research click Databases
• Scroll through to “Film”
• Select either Criterion-on-Demand or Kanopy
• Log in using Brock log in
Available to Brock faculty, staff, and students

17. Visual Literacy
Resources
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18. Integrated Strand Scavenger Hunt
18Task:
You are to work collaboratively with your
group members to complete all of the
missions. In order to receive your points,
you will need to upload videos or photos,
as instructed, to the site.
Have one person upload the free app
“Goose Chase: to their device.
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Your game code is: 4XPPR8
Your password is: Hodor

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20. Oral Communication Blog Self Assessment
Take a few moments to click on
the visual of the blogging
criteria to assess your oral
communication blog.
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21. Next Week at a Glance:
⊗No PLC’s or Sakai Posts
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