KQWKnowledge Quest Web EditionJanuary/February 2008

Visual Literacy

"Images are more evocative than words, more precise and potent in triggering a wide range of associations and thereby enhancing creative thinking & memory."
- Tony Buzan

Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: Visual Thinking Strategies at the Eric Carle Museum

“With the art and design of the picture book at the center of its program development, The EricCarleMuseum has forged strong connections between visual and verbal literacy.  Programs that explore and expand on the traditional uses of the picture book are featured in the Museum’s Galleries, Reading Library, and Art Studio. Teaching children to compose, consume, communicate, and think critically in a visually saturated world begins at an early age. What better place to begin than with the art and design of the picture book.”

- Rosemary Agoglia, Curator

Columns

• Homepage
  • Visual Information Literacy:
    Reading a Documentary Photograph - Debbie Abilock (KQ Print PDF)
• President's Column
  • AASL and Parents: Partnership for Power
     - Sara Kelly Johns  (KQ Print PDF) 
• CBC Meet the Author/Illustrator
  •  On Writing (And Reading) the Graphic Novel
    -  (KQ Print PDF)
• PBS Teaching and Learning Resources
  •  Focus on Visual Literacy - PBS Teachers' Staff (KQ Print PDF)
• Series Sense
  • Why Kids Don't Have Series Books - Home Run Research
    • My Journey As a Reader - Tatiana Cevellos (KQ Print PDF)
  • Cataloging 101
    • What's It All About? - Sandra Q. Williams

Features

• • Reinventing the Book Club: Graphic Novels as Educational Heavyweights
    - Jonathan Seyfried (KQ Print PDF) 
    • Bibliography and Student Work - Jonathan Seyfried
  • Using Documentary Photography Books with Reluctant Readers in the High School Library  - Patricia Sarles 
    • A Sampling of Documentary Photography Books - Patricia Sarles
  • Collaborating Outside the Box  - Cassandra Barnett
    • Collaboration Planning Sheet - Cassandra Barnett
  • Teaching Visual Literacy: Graphic Novels and Critical Theory
      - Gretchen Schwarz
  • A Visual Literacy Lesson for Art and Design
      - Theron Lund and Rob Poole
  • Making Information Visual
      - Joel Shoemaker, Elizabeth Schau, Richael Ayers (KQ Print PDF) 
    • Pretest  - Joel Shoemaker, Elizabeth Schau, Richael Ayers 
    • Worksheet - Joel Shoemaker, Elizabeth Schau, Richael Ayers 
    • Handout - Joel Shoemaker, Elizabeth Schau, Richael Ayers
  • Resource Description and Access: the New Way to Say AACR2
      - Tom Adamich
  • Professional Pages Book Reviews
    • The Roaring Twenties Reference Library: A Guide to the Twenties for People Under Twenty 
         - Reviewed by Willow Dressel 

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• Carolyn Karis, Associate Editor for Resources

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Letter to the Editor 

Gayle Bogel - KQWeb Editor
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