Images+in+the+Classroom

=Images in the Classroom Workshop = =This workshop examines the powerful influence of images in our students’ lives, and the need to teach them the principles and skills of visual literacy to expand their visual learning. Participants will practice visual literacy skills through reading and analyzing images. They will apply the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to the integration of images into instruction. Finally, the participants will tour some of the best web resources and tools that can be used to expand the visual learning experience for their students. = = = =**Workshop Objectives:** =
 * ==** Participants will be able to identify how images help us to have new learning experiences. ** ==
 * ==** Participants will be able to explain the visual world of students ** ==
 * ==** Participants will be able to use critical thinking skills to read and interpret a picture. ** ==
 * ==** Participants will be able to use Bloom’s Taxonomy with an image to expand learning with students. ** ==
 * ==** Participants will be able to use the Visual Thinking Strategy with their students to analyze images. ** ==
 * ==** Participants will be able to access suggested image web resources for planning and designing instructional lessons. ** ==

=**Workshop Websites** =

Reading a Picture
1. [|CIA Photo Analysis Challenge] 2. [|Seeing Everything in the Picture] 3. [|Reading Photographs Worksheet]

Analyzing a Picture
1. [|Photo Analysis Worksheet] 2. [|Image Detective]

Prior Knowledge
[|The Corporate ABC Quiz]

Exploring an Era
[|Duke University Digital Collections] [|Picturing America]

Primary Source Materials
1. [|How to Use Primary Source Materials Tutorial] 2. [|Smithsonian: Resources for Teaching American History] 3. [|Library of Congress: Digital Collection] 4. [|Time & Life Pictures] 5. [|NASA Images] 6. [|World Digital Library] 7. [|Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections] 8. [|The National Archives Digital Vaults]

Field Trip Worksheets
1. [|Smithsonian Zoo Field Trip Worksheet] 2. [|Smithsonian Museum Field Trip Worksheet]

Best Image Resources

 * 1. Image Sources:** [|Creative Commons Images]
 * 2. Image Resources:** [|Federal Resources for Educational Excellence]
 * 3. Image Search Tools:** [|Visual Dictionary Online]
 * 4. Primary Sources:** [|Duke University Digital Collections]
 * 5. Primary Sources:** [|Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections]
 * 6. Primary Sources:** [|How to Use Primary Source Materials Tutorial]
 * 7. Virtual Field Trips:** [|360Cities]
 * 8. Image Tools:** [|BigHugeLabs]
 * 9. Graphs:** [|Kids' Zone - Create a Graph]
 * 10. Graphs:** [|The Baby Name Wizard]
 * 11. Maps:** [|University of Texas Library Map Collection]
 * 12. Cartoons:** [|AAEC - Cartoons for the Classroom]
 * 13. Cartoons:** [|MakeBeliefsComix]
 * 14. Cartoons:** [|Toontastic]
 * 15. Photo of the Day:** [|National Geographic Photo of the Day]
 * 16. Visual Literacy Links:** [|Visual Literacy]

Jog the Best Image Resources
[|Jog the Web]

Other Image Resources
1. I[|ntel Visual Ranking Tool] 2. [|A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods] 3. [|bubbl.us Mind Mapping] 4. [|Glogster EDU] 5. [|Google Earth] 6. [|Panoramio] 7. [|Tagxedo] 8. [|Pic-Lits]

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]

Cartoons in the Classroom
[|Cartoons in the Classroom] [|Cartoon Analysis Worksheet] [|MakeBeliefsComix.com] [|The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Website]

Other Resources
[|Media Literacy Clearinghouse] [|Leveraging Multimedia for Learning] [|The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill] [|Presidents on Money] [|New Jersey Shore - Before and After Hurricane Sandy]

Videos
[|RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms] [|Picture Reading in the First Grade]

Japan
[|Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami] [|How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown]

[|Photo Survey Form]

Panoramas
[|5 Free Software to Create Panoramic Photos] [|Hugin Panorama Photo Sticher] [|FSP Panorama Viewer] [|360Cities] [|Microsoft Ice]

Workshop Timers
[|Egg Timer] media type="custom" key="10069745"

Jog the Web List of Visual Literacy Websites
[|Visual Literacy Jog the Web]

Workshop Feedback Form
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[|Official Time Widget]