Course+Outline


 * Now You See It…. Now What?**
 * Developing an Interdisciplinary Visual Literacy Framework**
 * Phyllis DiBianco**
 * Dina Hofstetter**
 * Scarsdale Teachers Institute**

//How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.// //-//Lascelles Abercrombie

Definitions - What does visual literacy / illiteracy look like? Terms for visual analysis Are you being visually manipulated - ads, photos, Seeing in the age of photoshop History of image manipulation How well do we really see? Political messages / influence of pop-ups How to design information so that students will see it better and be able to use it. Models of visual analysis and relationship to text analysis Teaching with photos, cartoons, posters, etc.
 * Topics:**

ARTstor: Advanced Searching, Offline Viewer, Personal Collections AP MultiMedia Collection Photoshop – changing images, impact on “meaning” of the image PowerPoint
 * Technology:**

Read images through telescoping Adding word bubbles to images Manipulation
 * Practice Exercises:**