Creating Images to Understand Visual Literacy

American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433; Web site: http://www.ala.org/aasl/kqweb

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Photography; Visual Literacy; Literacy; Photojournalism; Technology Uses in Education

1094-9046

As the keeper of the library's fun tools, the author was one of the school's original digital photographers. She was hooked on the ease of digital photography after using it one summer and realized its value--first personally, then professionally. Thus it seemed natural for her to develop a digital photography class to address visual literacy, giving interested students an opportunity to create images of their own. Students step behind the wizard's curtain to see how the "magic" is done. In this article, the author describes how she teaches motivated students about visual literacy as they take photographs with a digital camera and edit them in Photoshop.

ERIC

2009

EJ825512