Articles related to "Visual Literacy"

People spend more time with digital visual media than ever before. Understanding visual communication and design is an indispensable facet of literacy.

Before jumping deeply into the technical side of photography and buying more equipment and getting lost in confusing instruction manuals, do you really know how to see?

An introduction to ethos, logos, and pathos for college freshmen or high school seniors in writing courses. Students will identify appeals in popular advertisements.

Drawing is a language. This is why it is called Visual Literacy. The process of drawing can be learned and taught in a similar way to any other language.

Evolving digital technology allows the creation of new environments that combine many forms of information in a media collage.

Help children discover the joy of kids comic books by introducing them to Owly, Jellaby, and Binky the Space Cat.

Making a simple bright, colourful and cheery comic strip or quip is quick and easy if you use the cut paper method.

The ability to use digital technology to create photo mashups has contributed to the rise of photographic hoaxes and the use of digital forensics to detect them.

Kids Love Comics, a nonprofit organization started by award-winning cartoonists, advocates the use of comic books and graphic novels in schools and libraries.

Students explore characters by drawing a realistic portrait. Once deconstructed and reconstructed it is fashioned into a composition called a critical emotional response.

Programme Achieve focuses on Four Foundations of Successful Learning. I discuss how this relates to the Creative Arts Classroom.

Information literacy is a critical set of skills that teach a person to know when and how to do research and use the knowledge effectively in communication and action.

Creating a Market Stall provides an opportunity to teach students about self promotion as an Artist. This is an interesting and engaging way to teach about Careers.

New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss takes kids on a madcap chase through New York in his first comic book story.

Who would have thought that monsters were scared of kids? Cartoonist Eleanor Davis did -- and it led her to publish a children's book.

Students young and old love to make Mother's Day Cards. As a class project brainstorm ideas that help to make cards that are different, original and fun to create.

Living in a media rich environment requires people to become savvy about media. Media literacy enables them to be perceptive consumers of media messages.

Learning to identify and interpret common art principles can heighten understanding of artistic composition.

To adapt a quote immortalised by Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street: "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that gaming - for lack of a better word - is good."