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Visual feast or visual communication, a webinar for the CMC MOOC
This document discusses visual communication and visual literacy. It explores how images can convey meaning and what visual literacy means. It notes that images can distort reality through selectivity, subjectivity and interpretations. However, new technologies now allow for more sharing, commenting on and manipulating images. Visual learning is important but not always actively encouraged in courses. The document discusses using images for storytelling, capturing processes, and synchronous and asynchronous visual connections to enhance learning. It provides some references on visual literacy and communication as well as useful links on these topics.
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- 1. visual feast or Chrissi Nerantzi visual communication @chrissinerantzi a webinar for the Creativity and Multicultural Communication MOOC
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- 4. visual communication what is it?
- 5. research mainly focuseson similarities (Messaris, 2012) what about the differences: what makes a picture unique? words images
- 6. 1 picture isworth 1000 words
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- 8. What do youmiss now? What do I miss?
- 9. What about whatwe do now? http://theconferencepublishers.com/blog/v irtual-meetings/google-hangouts-hybrid- events-next-eventtable-chat/ http://vsee.com/ http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/ 30/blackboard-collaborate/
- 10. “cameras do lie”Lang & Lang (1952)
- 11. “cameras do lie”Lang & Lang (1952) selectivity subjectivity constructions interpretations shaping perceptions
- 12. What has changed? loads of platforms to share, comment, re-use re- mix images plethora of tools to manipulate of images Gauntlett (2011, 7): “Web2.0 invites users in to play.” and making, making is connecting Question: Distortion of reality, subjective realities?
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- 18. Visual literacy, whatdoes this mean for you? Draw it!
- 19. visual literacy (JohnDebes,1969) “Visual Literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences. The development of these competencies is fundamental to normal human learning. When developed, they enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, symbols, natural or man- made, that he encounters in his environment. Through the creative use of these competencies, he is able to communicate with others. Through the appreciative use of these competencies, he is able to comprehend and enjoy the masterworks of visual communication.” Debes (1969b, 27)
- 20. Professor of Cognitionand Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education thinking in pictures • Howard Gardner (1983) Multiple Intelligences > spatial intelligence > analogical thinking and visual creativity > • recognising and using patters, • finding similarities between superficially dissimilar aspects of reality, • analogical connections > basis of scientific creativity multiple intelligences test http://howardgardner.com/multiple-intelligences/
- 21. Be honest! Visuallearning and teaching, is this actively encouraged and practiced in your courses? yes no
- 22. What about whatwe do now? http://theconferencepublishers.com/blog/v irtual-meetings/google-hangouts-hybrid- events-next-eventtable-chat/ http://vsee.com/ http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/ 30/blackboard-collaborate/
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- 24. http://www.photovoicesinternational.org/ storytelling
- 25. storytelling Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/ http://5card.cogdogblog.com//index.php
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- 27. visualisations, capturing processand product through images • Learning through making and sharing (Gauntlett, 2011) • connecting off- and online learning experiences
- 28. visual synchronous connections http://theconferencepublishers.com/blog/v irtual-meetings/google-hangouts-hybrid- events-next-eventtable-chat/ http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/ http://vsee.com/ 30/blackboard-collaborate/
- 29. asynchronous visual connections students creating capturing students resources collaborative sharing activities experiences sharing reflections having fun learning together
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- 40. References • Lang, K.,& Lang, G.E. (1952). The unique perspective of television and its effect: A pilot study. American Sociological Review, 18, 312. • Messaris, P. (2012) Visual “Literacy” in the Digital Age, The Review of Communication, Vol 12, No 2, April 2012, pp. 101-117 • Gauntlett, D. (2011) Making is connecting, Cambridge: Polity Press.
- 41. useful links PGCAP onYouTube http://www.youtube.com/pgcapsal ford PGCAP on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgc ap International Visual Literacy Assosication http://www.ivla.org/org_what_vis_lit.h tm How do you look? http://nasher.duke.edu/howdoyou look/ Chrissi’s photovoices https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.c om/tag/photovoices/
Editor's Notes
- #2 ChrissiNerantzi for Carol: Is this ok? Chrissi is an experienced Academic Developer at the University of Salford. She is the Programme Leader of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice which is offered to teachers in HE and leads to a teaching qualification for Higher Education. Her approach is experimental and she enjoys challenging and stretching her students so that they make new discoveries.Say at the beginning:I am not an expert in visual communication, visual literacy. I am just an experimenter who loves using images, artifacts etc for learning and teaching. I will share my experiences with you and would like to engage in a discussion with you about visual communication and learning. Not a monologue but a dialogueWrite on any slide, anytime!Add your comments, questions to the chat.Take the microphone and switch on the video so that we can see you too ;)
- #5 gestures, facial expressions, body language, emoticons, images, video, comic, infographics, objects, sculptures, installations, doodle, drawing, paintings, signs, charts, diagrams, infographicsVisual communication a universal language?thinking in picturesconsuming pictures, creating, co-creating, mash-up and sharingVisual literacy includes such areas as facial expressions, body language, drawing, painting, sculpture, hand signs, street signs, international symbols, layout of the pictures and words in a textbook, the clarity of type fonts, computer images, pupils producing still pictures, sequences, movies or video, user-friendly equipment design and critical analysis of television advertisements.Important----------------Today’s students are more media savvy than ever, but how well do they critique the images they see around them? Visual literacy is an increasingly important skill and learning to think critically about images is an essential component of a 21st century education. Confronted with a different kind of source material–image rather than text–they are challenged to look at concepts and issues in a new way.
- #6 Word and images are constructions NOT passive recordings of realityexample: do we need to know a specific language to make sense of an image? quicker and richer ‘to read’ and image?
- #7 1 video is worth 1000 pictures
- #8 http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/WWFLUNGS.jpg
- #9 not seeing me? people love seeing each otherwhat are we doing now? What I miss now is that I can’t see any of you.
- #10 Technology does enable seeing each otherBlackboard Collaborate up to 6Google hangout up to 15Skype only 2 then more for paymentaccess to these technologies on computers but also increasingly on tablets and mobile phones
- #11 activity: ask what participants think about this statement
- #13 consuming imagescreation, co-creationmash-upsharing
- #14 http://www.geneticamultimedia.com/images/slides/socialmedia/social-media.jpg
- #15 http://www.newsilike.in/infographics/flickr-trend-report-2012/
- #20 activity: ask participants to underline important parts of this paragraph and then briefly discuss.Visual literacy includes such areas as facial expressions, body language, drawing, painting, sculpture, hand signs, street signs, international symbols, layout of the pictures and words in a textbook, the clarity of type fonts, computer images, pupils producing still pictures, sequences, movies or video, user-friendly equipment design and critical analysis of television advertisements.-----------------not about consuming but analysing, making sense of images, learning through images
- #21 spatial intelligence“Blind populations provide an illustration of the distinction between the spatialintelligence and visual perception. A blind person can recognize shapes by an indirectmethod: running a hand along the object translates into length of time of movement,which in turn is translated into the size of the object. For the blind person, the perceptualsystem of the tactile modality parallels the visual modality in the seeing person. Theanalogy between the spatial reasoning of the blind and the linguistic reasoning of the deafis notable.”http://howardgardner01.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/in-a-nutshell-minh.pdfTEST http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm visualisation source http://www.silverspiral.org/index.php/home/item/81-using-multiple-intelligences-in-magick
- #22 meanings in pictures derive largely from analogyimages do not require much prior experience
- #23 already seen this earlier
- #24 spontaneous reactions to imagesvisual triggersfor sharing information, emotions, events, learning?
- #25 Photovoices International is an innovative international program that provides cameras and photography training for people to document important issues in their lives like the state of the natural environment, what they value about traditional culture and to record community strengths and challenges. The Photovoices process--part documentary, part art, part storytelling--provides a way to hear villagers' unfiltered opinions and to learn from their expertise. By using simple cameras, photographs and stories, people gain a visual voice at the table and a process to communicate indigenous knowledge and concerns from the grassroots to international organizations, government officials and other making plans for the future. Perhaps most important, the pictures and stories provide people a way to reflect on their own lives and to talk together about what they want to protect and what they want to make better. Click here to find out how the Photovoices process works.~Ann McBride Norton, Director
- #29 people love seeing each otherwhat are we doing now? What I miss now is that I can’t see any of you.Technology does enable seeing each otherBlackboard Collaborate up to 6Google hangout up to 15Skype only 2 then more for paymentaccess to these technologies on computers but also increasingly on tablets and mobile phones
- #31 How could you incorporate images into your curriculum/courses activities and assessment?
- #33 Just read the story first before showing the pictures!The messiness of learningA jungle or...... a garden? Can it be both?Order to avoid chaos? Why?Can chaos be bad for us? In what way(s)?Self-organisation emerges. Can you see it? Can you feel it?What needs to happen to recognise this as a vital part for (more) learning?https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/the-messiness-of-learning-cmc11-mooc/