Seminar 15A - Teaching with Images: Tools and Resources
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Beth Harris, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology
• Session convener: Rochelle Rodrigo, Residential Faculty, Mesa Community College

Abstract

As the social landscape of our students becomes increasingly saturated with images, the need for teaching visual literacy skills is growing. Today images are widely available and hold tremendous learning potential across disciplines; unfortunately, our learning management systems are largely text-based. Creating online learning activities around images, where students discuss a map, photograph, or painting or upload their own work for critique by the class, can be very difficult, if not impossible. The image disappears in discussion threads, and we can't point to parts of an image the way we would in class. However, many applications have enormous potential for image-based instruction. This seminar will discuss the tools and resources instructors can use to teach effectively with images and to create a personal and an institutional image library, including ARTstor, the Madison Digital Image Database, VoiceThread, ConceptShare, Flickr, Jing, Photagious, Skitch, and others.