Photo Story And Discovery Education Visual Literacy.

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Photo Story And

Discovery Education

Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy Ability to understand communications

composed of visual images as well as being able to use visual imagery to communicate to others

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Fred R. Barnard

Ability to construct meaning from visual images

PhotographsTell storiesConvey emotionsRepresent ideas and document

historySpeak through visual imagesPortray the emotional effects

inherent in a photographer's choices about angle, focus and other aesthetic elements

Questions to ask when looking at images?What do I know? How do I know it?How can I find out more?What’s the point of view? Who’s the creator’s audience?Why is this important?

Do captions influence what you are thinking?

1.American airplane flying over the Rocky Mountains

2.A U.S. Air Force C-46 cargo plane flying over "the Hump" (the Himalayas)

3.American DC3 plane with 12 passengers flying over the Alps

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Let’s Vote

These pictures have been cropped.

Have students write a captionto describe

what is happening.

Write a caption

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Katrina Aftermath

Write a caption

Steam Boat Race on the Mississippi

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Digital StorytellingProvides educators with an instructional

method that brings together both Visual Literacy and 21st century Literacy

Allows you to combine writing process strategies with multimedia technologies to expand your student’s total literacy development.

What is Digital Story TellingNarrative expression crafted into a media

presentation for sharing information and enhancing stories

Usingcomputerspictures video music narrationwriting

LPB Learning Port

Photo Story 3Allows you to create digital stories that

incorporateStill ImagesAudioMusicTransitions

Saves the completed project as movie Free software

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Project SamplesScience – Broadmoor ElementarySocial StudiesMathELATeacher training

ScienceRocks and Minerals

Social StudiesHigh School Projects

•The Holocaust

•The Counterculture

•Pearl Harbor

•The Civil Rights

Shapes All AroundSaints Boyz

Geometry

Mathematics

Hidden Shadow Shapes

Getting To Know Our ClassEllen Floyd

Anticipatory

Let’s Try OneEvents of the American Revolution

Discovery EducationImages

Questions