Visual feast or visual communication, a webinar for the CMC MOOC

visual feast or visual communication

Chrissi Nerantzi@chrissinerantzi

a webinar for the Creativity and Multicultural Communication MOOC

Where are you?

the plan

• visual communication

• visual literacy

• visual learning

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visual communicationwhat is it?

research mainly focuses on similarities (Messaris, 2012) what about the differences: what makes a picture unique?

words images

1 picture is worth 1000 words

thinking in picturesvisual education

visual literacy

visual learning

visual intelligence

ads

What do you miss now?

What do I miss?

What about what we do now?

http://vsee.com/ http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/30/blackboard-collaborate/

http://theconferencepublishers.com/blog/virtual-meetings/google-hangouts-hybrid-events-next-eventtable-chat/

“cameras do lie” Lang & Lang (1952)

“cameras do lie” Lang & Lang (1952)

selectivitysubjectivityconstructionsinterpretationsshaping perceptions

What has changed?

loads of platforms to share, comment, re-use re-mix imagesplethora of tools to manipulate of images

Gauntlett (2011, 7): “Web2.0 invites users in to play.” and making, making is connecting

Question: Distortion of reality, subjective realities?

social media

Youtube

Visual literacy, what does this mean for you? Draw it!

visual literacy (John Debes,1969)“Visual Literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences. The development of these competencies is fundamental to normal human learning. When developed, they enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, symbols, natural or man-made, that he encounters in his environment. Through the creative use of these competencies, he is able to communicate with others. Through the appreciative use of these competencies, he is able to comprehend and enjoy the masterworks of visual communication.” Debes (1969b, 27)

• Howard Gardner (1983) Multiple Intelligences > spatial intelligence > analogical thinking and visual creativity >

• recognising and using patters, • finding similarities between

superficially dissimilar aspects of reality,

• analogical connections > basis of scientific creativity

thinking in pictures

http://howardgardner.com/multiple-intelligences/

Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

multiple intelligences

test

Be honest! Visual learning and teaching, is this actively encouraged and practiced in your courses?

yes no

What about what we do now?

http://vsee.com/ http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/30/blackboard-collaborate/


triggers

storytelling http://www.photovoicesinternational.org/

storytelling

http://5card.cogdogblog.com//index.phpAlan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/

reflecting through digital storytelling

http://stripgenerator.com/

visualisations, capturing process and product through images

• Learning through making and sharing (Gauntlett, 2011)

• connecting off- and online learning experiences

http://vsee.com/http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2012/03/30/blackboard-collaborate/


visual synchronous connections

asynchronous visual connections

students creating

resources

students sharing

experiences

creating and sharing OERs

sharing information

capturing collaborative

activities

sharing reflections

having fun learning together

Your ideas

Any questions/observations?

https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/the-messiness-of-learning-cmc11-mooc/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suebahrin/4756866534/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/befuddledsenses/1334530150/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/osakajon/38218718/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/decembre71/2189915831/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48201832@N05/5346036458/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebrumreaper/4248613849/

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/3205277810/

References

• Lang, K., & Lang, G.E. (1952). The unique perspective of television and its effect: A pilot study. American Sociological Review, 18, 312.

• Messaris, P. (2012) Visual “Literacy” in the Digital Age, The Review of Communication, Vol 12, No 2, April 2012, pp. 101-117

• Gauntlett, D. (2011) Making is connecting, Cambridge: Polity Press.

useful linksPGCAP on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/pgcapsalford

PGCAP on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgcap

International Visual Literacy Assosicationhttp://www.ivla.org/

org_what_vis_lit.htm

How do you look? http://nasher.duke.edu/howdoyoulook/

Chrissi’s photovoices https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/tag/photovoices/