User:Ricpierce/Exploring Educational Technology/Visual Literacy

This module explores the fundamentals of graphic images and some techniques for teachers and students to integrate images into their work. Sometime you need to represent data visually. There[ are many ways and rationales for developing visual artifacts to support teaching and learning]See Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. in this module we will experiment with creating and archiving visual artifacts. Consider the following passage. ''"Learning, for visual-spatial learners, takes place all at once, with large chunks of information grasped in intuitive leaps, rather than in the gradual accretion of isolated facts, small steps or habit patterns gained through practice. For example, they can learn all of the multiplication facts as a related set in a chart much easier and faster than memorizing each fact independently." Effective Techniques for Teaching Highly Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners, Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. Gifted Development Center, Denver, Colorado''

A picture really might be worth a thousand words. We want to examine current research regarding muti-modal instructional practices and demonstrate we can create and archive these artifacts.

Contents of the visual literacy module include: Reading (see below)| /Grab a Screen/ | /Online Graphics/ | /Image Formats/

Reading Please download and read the article Multimodal Learning Though Media pages 3-5 and consider these guiding questions: 1.Describe what Dale's Cone of Experience is? 2.How it comports with current research on teaching and learning. After the reading, comment on your opinion of the validity of Dale's Cone of Experience. 3.Distinguish between distributed intelligence and scaffolded achievement Required: Create a blog post and link it to your narrative response.

Basic Skills required for this module 1.How to you create an image? 2.How do you post an image to your blog? 3.How do you publish an image on the web and hyperlink to it? 4.How do you do a screen shot? 5.How do you edit a screen shot? 6.How do you change the program that opens a graphic file? 7.How do you inspect file properties? 8.List and describe some file properties? 9.How do you create a folder? 10.How do you change the views of a folder's contents? 11.How do you change graphic file format? 12.Why would you want to change graphic file format? 13.What is file compression? 14.List several common graphic file formats. 15.List some differences between paint and draw programs. 16.Distinguish between bitmap and raster graphics. 17.Why must teachers pay attention to the file format used to store graphic images and sounds.