The International Visual Literacy Association defines visual literacy as the ability to discriminate and interpret visual actions, objects, and other images, while gaining meaning from them.
Reading Images: An Introduction to Visual Literacy - Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
Visual Learners Learn Best When... -
Visual Literacy and Student Learning - Significant and substantial field expertise extols the value of integrating visual literacy experiences for children.
We Are All Visual Learners - Whether with crayons or computers, kids like doing art. Well-conceived projects and activities that introduce graphic and multimedia arts are not only fun, they help kids expand their creative skills.
Definition of Brain-based Visual Education - Brain based visual education is the critical and sustained use of knowledge from the brain sciences to design exciting instructional innovations, assess visual arts curriculum effectiveness, and promote sound artistic growth in students.
Visual Learning: Children and Math - Kids are accomplished visual learners. From the time they're infants, they learn to make sense of the world through visual cues.
Visual Literacy and Learning in Science - In our visually oriented age, science and technology education rely heavily on the use of pictures to present technical information. Today's students live in an information environment saturated with visual images, and educational materials are no exception
Learning Style Inventory - David A. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory describes the way you learn and how you deal with ideas and day-to-day situations in your life. As this instrument is copyrighted please contact Ginny Flynn at 1-800-729-8074 for licensing information.
Visual Literacy - Visual literacy is the ability to understand and use images.
Visual Education - We live in an age of visual images. In industrial societies, most people spend much of their time looking at television screens, Web graphics, print illustrations, and other types of visual displays.
Spatial Intelligence - Spatial functioning is a mental process which is associated with the brains attempts to interpret certain types of incoming information.
The Importance of Illustrated Books
Picturing Books - a Website about picture books.
Children's Book Illustration - Children live in a highly visual world. They are often unable to symbolize from what they hear because even simple words are still abstract to the very young. Children use objects or their visual representations to explore the physical environment and make sense of the world. One of the best ways to extend a young child's visual experience beyond his/her immediate environment and the flickering images of the small screen is to provide a variety of picture story books for his/her enjoyment.
Processing Information with Visual Texts
Inspiration - Learning to think. Learning to learn. These are the essential skills for student success. Research in both educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think, and how to learn.
Principles of Design - visit the site for an explanation.
Examples of Visual Texts - A visual text makes its meanings with images, or with meaningful patterns.
Body Maps - Discover how your body works by exploring these maps and diagrams of your skeleton, teeth, ears, tongue, skin, and brain.
Exploring Maps - Exploring Maps is an interdisciplinary set of materials on mapping for grades 7-12. Students will learn basic mapmaking and map-reading skills and will see how maps can answer fundamental geographic questions: "Where am I?" "What else is here?" "Where am I going?"
Geography - Here find a collection of geography pages, maps, printouts, flags, quizzes, and activities for students. The pages are listed by continent, alphabetically, and by topic.
Maps and Photos - here you will find many map resources.
Outline Maps of World and Nations - here find free blank outline maps of the countries and continents of the World.
Outline Maps - here find outline maps of the world, Africa and many others.
Charts and Graphs - Tables, charts and graphs are convenient ways to clearly show your data.
Learning About Charts and Graphs - It is not always easy to pass along important information using just words. This is especially true when numbers are part of that information. One of the best ways to present numerical data is to use a graph or chart.
Students' Classroom: Create a Graph - Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.
Conceptualizing with Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers - collection of graphic organizers.
WriteDesign Online: Graphic Organizers - Graphic organizers are valuable instructional tools. Unlike many tools that just have one purpose, graphic organizers are flexible and endless in application.
Mind Mapping - concept or mind mapping for education.
Concept Maps - There are four major categories of concept maps. These are distinguished by their different format for representing information.
The Graphic Organizer - Graphic Organizers, Mind Maps, Concept Maps are a pictoral or graphical way to organize information and thoughts for understanding, remembering, or writing about. Graphic organizers, mind maps and concept maps are powerful tools that can be used to enchance learning and create a foundation for learning.
Teach-Nology - The generators found here will allow you to make graphic organizers by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.
Graphic Organizers: Blackline Masters - here find many graphic organizers that will help children organize ideas and concepts.
Concept Mapping - here find types of maps.
Looking and Telling - A format for looking at and talking about photographs.
How to Read a Painting - Learning Art Criticism Skills to Enrich the Museum Experience
Elements of Art - the following topics are discuessed and elaborated on: Color, Line, Perspective, Shape, Space, Texture and Value.
Art Dictionary - Welcome to ArtLex. You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
Visual Arts Online: Drawing Together - this site has been designed to help and encourage children to make storyboards and animate their drawings.
The Artist's Toolkit - explore the tools artists use to build works of art.
Study Art - here explore the world of art and artists through the interactive timeline and glossary
Multiple Intelligences - The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults.
Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective - a pdf file, this paper provides an introduction to visual literacy.
International Visual Literacy Association - IVLA was formed for the purpose of providing a forum for the exchange of information related to visual literacy.
Visual Learning - a pdf file, the Polaroid Education program has played a key role in developing and disseminating information on effective visual learning practices in the classroom.