D. Application
Creating a graphical documentary can be a powerful way to engage student learning. This is also has a great impact on the ability for students/faculty/participants to working together in a team to accomplish a project. Images can be very powerful when put together to tell a story. Various effect can also be used such as color and contrast to help accentuate a particular emotion when creating a graphical story. Photos and objects can be used to reinforce material that faculty are trying to engage students in learning. This type of activity can also create a direct connection between the object/photo and the student’s subject materials by increasing their level of interest and attention.
This type of activity also speaks to the 21st century skill of digital fluency for faculty as well as critical thinking and visual literacy for our students. Visual literacy and critical thinking skills equip students with the ability to understand and analyze various components in the production of visual materials. These components are: cultural, ethical, aesthetic, and intellectual and of course technical. When we create a visually competent student, the will become a competent consumer of visual media, they are critical, and also help create a shared knowledge and culture.
This workshop provides a professional development opportunity for faculty who wish to improve their digital fluency and visual literacy skills as well as address opportunities for their students to critically view images, as well as processes involved in creating a story without narration. Not only will faculty benefit in their own professional development, but also their students will benefit from added pedagogic approaches when faculty add digital photography as a tool to engage students in retaining material being shared. It’s important for faculty to expand and develop their own sense of learning and development so they can help assist students with critical thinking as well as become visually literate.
*Literature Review Concepts are in this section as well as curricular concepts. Various tools and applications that support learning can be found B. Content -Appropriate Applications.
Creating a graphical documentary can be a powerful way to engage student learning. This is also has a great impact on the ability for students/faculty/participants to working together in a team to accomplish a project. Images can be very powerful when put together to tell a story. Various effect can also be used such as color and contrast to help accentuate a particular emotion when creating a graphical story. Photos and objects can be used to reinforce material that faculty are trying to engage students in learning. This type of activity can also create a direct connection between the object/photo and the student’s subject materials by increasing their level of interest and attention.
This type of activity also speaks to the 21st century skill of digital fluency for faculty as well as critical thinking and visual literacy for our students. Visual literacy and critical thinking skills equip students with the ability to understand and analyze various components in the production of visual materials. These components are: cultural, ethical, aesthetic, and intellectual and of course technical. When we create a visually competent student, the will become a competent consumer of visual media, they are critical, and also help create a shared knowledge and culture.
This workshop provides a professional development opportunity for faculty who wish to improve their digital fluency and visual literacy skills as well as address opportunities for their students to critically view images, as well as processes involved in creating a story without narration. Not only will faculty benefit in their own professional development, but also their students will benefit from added pedagogic approaches when faculty add digital photography as a tool to engage students in retaining material being shared. It’s important for faculty to expand and develop their own sense of learning and development so they can help assist students with critical thinking as well as become visually literate.
*Literature Review Concepts are in this section as well as curricular concepts. Various tools and applications that support learning can be found B. Content -Appropriate Applications.