Engaging Students with Visual Literacy Links

What is Visual Literacy?

http://www.wordle.net

What does that look like as we are learning?

• Download images to computer from your camera
• Use Animoto.com to express that understanding:
  http://www.animoto.com

• http://morguefile.com/
• http://images.google.com/hosted/life
• http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
• http://flickr.com

• The Iditarod
  http://www.iditarod.com/
• Testing Online:
  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/PuzzlesQuizzes/Quizyournoodle-iditarod
• Interactive Posters of Images using Glogster:
  http://www.glogster.com/edu

• A Story in History through interactives and visuals
  http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstoryinhistory/tryonline/buildsodhouse.html
• SD Images - http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=South+Dakota+History+Images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=8PfDScygHIXvnQec4-TWDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
• Photostory to build your own interactive story for PCs or use iMovie or iPhoto on the Macs - free downloads

• Help students to learn about shapes, fractions, mirror images and more in math
  http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=70
• Then take students on a real world learning experience -http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/Volume_of_Solids.html
   Geometric Solids_1.kmz

• Forces of Nature:
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/
• Create their own storm:
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html
• Today's weather around the world:
• http://www.weather.com/

• Visual Stories in 5 Frames
  http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/
• Digital Storytelling - cogdogroo site
  http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools#toc3
• Stories through Comic Strips - http://www.toondoo.com/
• http://www.toondoo.com/MyToondoo.toon