Keeping up with Visual Literacy.Reflections: Project 4:
A Graphical Documentary with Digital Photography Workshop
Challenges:
What on earth m I going to do? The hardest part of this project was trying to decide on what the topic of a one-day long workshop would be. I had several ideas from a “mini-series” of various tools to enhance learning for faculty to use in the classroom to a workshop on various "how-to's".
For some extra creative spark, I turned to a few associates and of course the trusty social media world of Facebook and asked this question: “Need ideas….. if you had to attend a day-long workshop on “Concepts, principles, and styles in digital photography” what would you want to learn about specifically as an outcome of something useful in your area of occupation/education. What kind of project would you want to complete in the workshop? For educators, this could focus on student retention or parent communication, or creating a project. I need ideas – so shoot ‘em to me!!”
This outreach has brought up a couple of thoughts, in regards to a workshop that I could present to a group of faculty and have it focus on things they could work on to better engage students, as well as engage parents. As I was talking with my associate about retention we discussed the influence and role parents play. There must be a way our staff and faculty could better connect or engage parents of freshmen students that would help even a slight amount with first year retention.
Various Ideas/Objctives:
A few possible “general” objectives could be along the lines of:
Conclusion:
I don't know that I would actually ever do this workshop, however I have thought about sharing this with some peers to see what their level of interest would be. I do think it would be neat to be able to give this a try -perhaps not as a full day, but as a set of mini-workshops or change this up for just a small session of faculty training.
Creating this workshop was a great lesson on time management as well as covering all bases from the brain storming process to the completion of attendee evaluations. One area that I was surprised was in the numerous amounts of research that I found that supported this type of a workshop. The research I found ranged in dates from 15 years ago, to just one month ago. It's reassuring to learn that your ideas and thoughts are validated from research by peers in the industry. A great example of this is from Keeping up with Visual Literacy: Visual literacy is a “set of abilities that enables an individual to find, interpret and evaluate the use of creative images in media”. Not only is this stressed in the arts, but also in all academic areas to expand the critical thinking of students. Students need various opportunities to work with visual content to exercise their skills of analyzation, evaluation, interpretation and how images are use ethically and reflectively. There are 7 main areas that branch out from visual literacy. The first area is defining the images that are needed in a particular circumstance. This includes generating ideas and criteria for images. The second is in finding images through research and discovery where students can select and organize as well as identify the images they find. Additional areas that make up visual literacy are: Interpret & analyze, evaluation, effective use of imagery, creation of visual media, and the ethical use of images and citation.
Brown, N. (2016). Keeping up with Visual Literacy. Retrieved from Association of College & Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/visual_literacy
A Graphical Documentary with Digital Photography Workshop
Challenges:
What on earth m I going to do? The hardest part of this project was trying to decide on what the topic of a one-day long workshop would be. I had several ideas from a “mini-series” of various tools to enhance learning for faculty to use in the classroom to a workshop on various "how-to's".
For some extra creative spark, I turned to a few associates and of course the trusty social media world of Facebook and asked this question: “Need ideas….. if you had to attend a day-long workshop on “Concepts, principles, and styles in digital photography” what would you want to learn about specifically as an outcome of something useful in your area of occupation/education. What kind of project would you want to complete in the workshop? For educators, this could focus on student retention or parent communication, or creating a project. I need ideas – so shoot ‘em to me!!”
This outreach has brought up a couple of thoughts, in regards to a workshop that I could present to a group of faculty and have it focus on things they could work on to better engage students, as well as engage parents. As I was talking with my associate about retention we discussed the influence and role parents play. There must be a way our staff and faculty could better connect or engage parents of freshmen students that would help even a slight amount with first year retention.
Various Ideas/Objctives:
A few possible “general” objectives could be along the lines of:
- Explore the potential impact photographic images can have on student engagement in the classroom.
- Examine strategies in which faculty can help students think critically about ethical imagery.
- Illustrate how powerful images can convey information, perspectives and ethics.
- Create a lesson in your subject area utilizing at least one multimedia tool.
- Create one interactive photo collage or pictorial involving student engagement for parents.
Conclusion:
I don't know that I would actually ever do this workshop, however I have thought about sharing this with some peers to see what their level of interest would be. I do think it would be neat to be able to give this a try -perhaps not as a full day, but as a set of mini-workshops or change this up for just a small session of faculty training.
Creating this workshop was a great lesson on time management as well as covering all bases from the brain storming process to the completion of attendee evaluations. One area that I was surprised was in the numerous amounts of research that I found that supported this type of a workshop. The research I found ranged in dates from 15 years ago, to just one month ago. It's reassuring to learn that your ideas and thoughts are validated from research by peers in the industry. A great example of this is from Keeping up with Visual Literacy: Visual literacy is a “set of abilities that enables an individual to find, interpret and evaluate the use of creative images in media”. Not only is this stressed in the arts, but also in all academic areas to expand the critical thinking of students. Students need various opportunities to work with visual content to exercise their skills of analyzation, evaluation, interpretation and how images are use ethically and reflectively. There are 7 main areas that branch out from visual literacy. The first area is defining the images that are needed in a particular circumstance. This includes generating ideas and criteria for images. The second is in finding images through research and discovery where students can select and organize as well as identify the images they find. Additional areas that make up visual literacy are: Interpret & analyze, evaluation, effective use of imagery, creation of visual media, and the ethical use of images and citation.
Brown, N. (2016). Keeping up with Visual Literacy. Retrieved from Association of College & Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/visual_literacy
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