Teaching for Visual Literacy: 50 Great Young Adult Films
Two educators, Alan B. Teasley and Ann Wilder, offer techniques for fostering visual literacy appropriate for middle school and high school students. The authors give instructional techniques, criteria for selecting films, and summaries of 50 suggested films for the classroom.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring94/Teasley.html
Visual Literacy Exercises
This site contains visual literacy exercises appropriate for secondary students. There are 13 exercises with sample solutions.
http://www.channel1.com/users/bobwb/vlit/
Visual Literacy and the Net
This site gives activities that teachers can use immediately to engage their students. There are specific easy to follow instructions to help students in grades 4 and above explore and respond to visual images on the Internet.
http://fnopress.com/PLOZ/vislit.htm
Reading the Image
The Reading the Image website contains visual literacy lesson plans for kindergarten to grade 6. The lessons were designed to introduce students to the resources of the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary. The lessons can be adapted, however, to serve students in any location.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/NAM/RTI/purpose.htm
A Visual Literacy Exercise- The Tokaido
This site provides a visual literacy exercise using Japanese woodblock prints. Secondary and post-secondary students can view and write responses to the material.
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html
Motion Picture Access, MoPix
At this site, educators will find lists of feature films that are available with closed captions and descriptive narration.
http://www.mopix.org
Electronic Classroom
Teachers can use this site to improve their use of technology in the classroom.
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp
Read-Write-Think
This site has lesson plans to help teachers use technology in their classrooms.
http://www.readwritethink.org
The Media Update: Another Use for Closed-Captioning
This article describes ways of using captioned programming in guided reading lessons.
http://www.ouboces.org/techser/libserv/libnews1101.html
