This document discusses visual literacy and multiliteracies. Visual literacy is defined as the ability to interpret, use, appreciate and create visual images and video using conventional and 21st century media. A complete literacy program should include opportunities to draw information as well as write it. To reflect the range of literacies, classroom instruction needs to explicitly teach how different text types work. Suggested strategies to broaden literacy teaching include developing visual literacy skills through drawing, utilizing online collaborative tools, and incorporating discussion into lessons.

1. Visual Literacy More than meets the eye... To provide a complete Literacy program, we need to include opportunities to draw information as well as to write it......Definition: “The ability to read interpret and understand information presented in pictorial or graphic images.”

2. What is Visual Literacy? Visual Literacy is the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.

3. Multiliteracies Read through the Multiliteracies page. Share your thoughts in the chat..... Complete the activity....Timeline of Literate Practices.

4. Collaborative Space development Google – storyboarding. http://www.det.nsw.edu.au/ict http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/669 Benetton play Bitstrips Gliffy Glogster EDU Pixton Prezi Storybird Voice thread http://k-8visual.info/ http://www.pomona.edu/academics/courserelated/classprojects/visual-lit/intro.html http://www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk/14A http://www.medialit.org/reading_room article540.html http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/index.cfm http://www.frankwbaker.com/vl_lessonplans.htm http://edept.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/classroom/picturebooks/ http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/advertising/analysisnotes.html

5. Group Activities FAB 20 minutes each Writers Notebook Ultranet. 40 minutes

7. As part of FAB