Visual+Literacy

__Classroom Activities__
[|Sample Camera Lessons and Activities] [|Using Digital Photography in the Classroom] [|Quick! Get the (Digital) Camera!] [|Photography in the Classroom] [|Resources for Teaching with Photographs] [|A Picture is Worth a Thousand Thoughts: Inquiry with Bloom's Taxonomy] [|How to Analyze a Photograph] [|Visual Literacy Using Web-based Photo Resources] [|Develop Visual Focused Activities] [|Postcard Projects]

__Digital Storytelling__
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom Digital Storytelling Examples

__Digital Storytelling Tools__
Digital Storytelling Tools [|Flickr - Tell a Story in 5 Frames] [|Flickr - Tell a Story in 5 Frames] Example [|FlickrPoet] Experimental site where users can take stories or poems and the site will add photos from Flickr with matching search terms. [|PBS Gallery of Digital Storytelling] The Gallery has teacher and student created digital stories in a variety of subject areas. [|Zooburst - 3D Pop-up Books] ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. CogDogRoo StoryTools Has over 50 tools listed that you can use to create web-based stories [|BigHugeLabs] Has a number of applications that enables you to do cool things with photographs [|How to Chroma Key in Windows Movie Maker] This site provides step-by-step directions for using the green screen effect with photos and video clips in Windows Movie Maker. [|PechaKucha 20x20]

**__Visual Literacy Curriculum__**
[|Visual Literacy Unit]

__Art Lessons__
[|Lesson Plans for Arts and Media] [|National Gallery Lesson Plans] [|Photography and Vantage Points]

__English Lessons__
[|Sandburg Meets Flickr] [|Images as Persuasion] [|Photojournalism Lesson Plan] Visual-lit Activities

__Science Lessons__
[|Flow Charts]

__History Lessons__
[|100 Personalities of History] [|Rosa Parks Lesson Plan] [|Understanding the Design and Symbolism] [|The Opper Project History - Lesson Plans] [|270toWin] [|Teaching with Primary Sources] History Tours

__Social Studies Lessons__
[|PBS - Analyzing Election Cartoons Lesson Plan] [|Oil Spill Perspectives Lesson Plan]

__Math Lessons__
[|Creating a Graph] [|Math puzzle: The Eiffel Tower]

__Resources__
[|Smart Kit Puzzle Playground] This site provides daily brain games, online puzzles and games, brain teasers, jigsaw puzzles. [|ImageLoop] [|56 Chevy] This is a five slide example of an ImageLoop slideshow using the cube presentation style. [|Adobe Digital School Collection Teacher Resources] This site has lesson plans for math and science, language arts, history/social studies, and visual and performing arts. [|Visual Memory Test]
 * Imageloop** allows you to create Slideshows and other cool widgets free and easy ! You can upload your own photos and select a slideshow style to display it. You can even add special effects to it.

__Virtual Field Trips__
[|Videoconferencing with the Library of Congress] The Library of Congress offers interactive programs with reference and subject specialists to acquaint researchers with the resources on the Web site and how best to access them. [|Virtual Tours] This site presents over 300 Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and Real-Time journeys which offer online multimedia guided tours on the Web. Most of the them offer text and pictures, others in addition transmit sound and an occasional movie. [|The Teacher's Guide - Virtual Field Trips] This site provides links to virtual tours of museums and exhibits. [|Museums Around the World] This site includes an eclectic collection of services connected with museums around the world. [|Louvre Museum] [|Museum Methods to Improve Visual Literacy] This site provides exercises to improve visual learning capacity in viewing museum pieces. It uses works of art as practice to review these techniques, and helps you to form logical thoughts and ideas that allow you to draw conclusions from your surroundings. [|Museum Object Learning Worksheet] [|Virtual Field Trip Resources] [|Visual Literacy Resources]

__Links__
[|Think Digital Photography in the Classroom] This site provides links on the use of digital cameras and Flickr. [|Digital Photography in the Classroom] This site provides the basics of using cameras in the classroom. Topics include: start-up issues; tips on photo taking; and ideas for classroom activities. [|Media Literacy Clearinghouse] This site provides resources for K-12 educators that promote critical thinking to help students read media messages. [|Teaching with Primary Sources] This Smithsonian primary source site provides resources for teaching American History. [|56 Chevy] [|Visual Literacy Links] [|The Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images] [|National Archives: Photo Analysis Worksheet] [|Delicious Visual Literacy Links]

__Videos__
[|A Conversation with Martin Scorsese: The Importance of Visual Literacy] [|Visual Literacy Across the Curriculum] [|What If We Were Stripped of Our Visual Literacy?] [|Using Graphic Organizers for a Museum Visit] [|Sprint 4G Commercial] [|Visuacy - An Example Using Stick Figures] [|The Murphy Bed - CBS] [|Visual Thinking Strategies]

__Cartoons__
[|Truman Libary Cartoons & Teaching Materials] [|Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index] [|About.com Political Humor] [|AAEC - Cartoons for the Classroom] [|Cartoon Analysis Worksheet] [|The Opper Project: Using Political Cartoons to Teach History] [|CNN Political Cartoons] [|Time Cartoons of the Week]

**__Cartoon Creators__**
Comic Creators [|MakeBeliefsComics] [|ToonDoo] [|Comic Life] [|Kerpoof]

__Maps__
[|Historical Maps] [|Map Collections - Library of Congress] [|Map Collections - University of Texas] [|USA Map Online Games] [|Maps that Teach] [|Online Atlas Maps]

__Graphics and Advertising__
[|BP Logo Design Contest] This site shows the entries to the BP Logo contest in respect to the oil spill dilemma. [|Ad*Access] The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955 [|Kids' Zone Create a Graph] This tool enables teachers and students to create line, bar, area graphs as well as pie charts. A handy graph tutorial helps to determine which graph or chart is best for what you want to display. [|270toWin] A interactive map that shows the electoral college results for all of the presidential elections. [|Baby Name Wizard] An interesting use of graphs that tracks and shows the popularity of names over time. [|The Graph Club]

__Graphic Organizers__
[|Graphic Organizers] [|Teacher Tap: Graphic Organizers] [|Gliffy] [|Inspiration] [|TeacherVision: Graphic Organizers] [|Visuwords] [|Edistorm]

__Image Sources__
[|Washington Post CameraWorks] [|National Geographic - Photography] [|U.S. Civil Rights Movement Photographs] [|Library of Congress - Digital Collection] [|Library of Congress Photos on Flickr] [|Time & Life Pictures] [|Pics for Learning] [|FreeFoto.com] [|Public Domain Images] [|The Amazing Picture Machine] [|Image Finder - University of California Berkeley Library] [|Spell with Flickr] [|Freebie Images] [|Microsoft Online graphics and Images] [|Best Sites to Find Public Domain Images and Sounds for Student Projects] [|Edupics] [|Primary Source Materials Hotlist] [|Public Domain Images]
 * General Image Sources**

[|Smithsonian: Resources for Teaching American History] Civil War Primary Sources [|The Photographic History of the Civil War] [|Matthew Brady Civil War Photographs on Flickr] [|The Authentic History Center] [|Heinz Histiry Center Photography Collection]
 * History Image Sources**

[|Satellite Views] [|Space Science and Engineering - Images and Data] [|Earth and Moon Viewer] [|NASA Images] [|Astronomy Picture of the Day] [|Hubble Images] [|Weather Photos] [|SciNet Photos] [|Gray's Anatomy of a Human Body] [|Emilio Segre Visual Archives of Scientists] [|Science Historical Photos - Smithsonian] [|Earth Science Picture of the Day] [|Astronomy Picture of the Day]
 * Science Image Sources**

[|Yahoo Current Events Photos]
 * Social Studies Image Sources**

__Picture of the Day Sources__
[|Earth Science Picture of the Day] [|Astronomy Picture of the Day]

**__Visual Search Tools__**
[|Spezify] It's a search tool that presents results from a large number of websites in different visual ways results. [|Search-Cube] Shows visual search rsults via a unique 3-D cube. [|Visual Dictionary Online]

__Image Editors__
[|Picnik Photo Editor] [|Splashup]

__**Visual Learning and Thinking Articles**__
[|Visual Thinking Strategies for Improved Comprehension] [|Visual Thinking Strategies] [|Visual Literacy: Concepts and Strategies]