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Do You See What I Mean- Visual Literacy

Presentation- starts with identification of cross sections of candy bars.

e-mail presenter for materials: nancy.sharoff@gmail.com Be sure to put PETE&C in the subject line

Links to sites used in presentation: @http://sites.google.com/site/visualliteracytoolbox (eventually) http://visual-lit.wikispaces.com/

Suggested books for presentation tips: Presentation Zen- Garr Reynolds http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery/dp/0321525655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266765065&sr=8-1

Presentaion Zen Design - Garr Reynolds http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Design-Principles-Presentations/dp/0321668790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266765065&sr=8-2

Knowledge of Visual Conventions- Assuming what students know logo- letter activity

Students are becoming more visual learners

How people learn? 1% taste 2% touch 3% small 11% hearing 83% visual

Retention 20% of what they have heard 50-70% combining visual and auditory New information must be reviewed in some shape or form will loose 80% in 24 hours. If your new knowledge was obtained only in an auditory fashion and not reviewed in 24 hours only 4 % would be retained.

Are you addressing the needs of visual learners in the classroom?

How? interactive whiteboards graphic organizers story boards streaming videos video conferencing webinars

Bottle for recycling Paper bags for recycling How much money is spent on food in a week (Hungry Planet http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/1580086810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266766448&sr=1-1)

Flickr- you can add notes to jpg. Save PowerPoint as Jpgs, annotate it and have students review the annotations. Flickrstorm

Other Ideas: Have students draw geological structures Wordle ABCya- allows you to save and print

Copyright in the Digital Age Creative commons licenses

ImageCodr.org enter the code and find out if it is in the creative commons

So much More!!!!