From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator. **Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967

1. @amyburvall
Image is Everything:!
Exploring Visual Literacy
for Critical Thinking
#EttSummit

2. http://bit.ly/imagED
drawing app
(Paper 53 recommended)

3. community

4. G doc in “Activities”
or… http://bit.ly/imagEDettisummit

5. data viz / info graphics + graphic design
photo + video+ digital presence
intro + the why
metaphor + short-ology
reflection + extensions

7. What’s “Historyteachers”?

8. What’s “Historyteachers”?

9. What’s “Historyteachers”?

10. me, !
sketching!
everywhere

12. aren’t we all?

14. never say…
@adambellow

15. !
Introductions
see G-doc “Activities”
life in 3 emoji
CSI of you
3 of me
how am I? sketch

16. story of me in 3
what 3 images tell your story?

17. workshop trailer

18. workshop trailer

19. THE

20. dual coding!
and!
picture superiority effect
Allan Paivio

21. caves at Chauvet
32-30,000 BP

22. Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more
visual/ oral

23. Tyranny of…

24. Scholars will be instructed through the eye.
It is possible to teach every branch of
human knowledge with the motion picture.
Our school system will be completely changed
inside of ten years
- Thomas Edison

25. disclaimer:!
!
don’t stress out
about your artistic
abilities…
this is about
thinking

26. Make the Mundane Matter

27. @donalddrawbertson
Unexpected Mediums

29. Challenge: draw your favorite activity

30. Now draw the same thing again…

31. Which was better?

32. Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol

34. “Unflattening” - PhD as graphic novel @Nsousanis

35. External memory aids

36. Are YOU a Visual Thinker?

37. Are YOU a Visual Thinker?

38. “If only we could pull out !
our brain !
and use only our eyes.” !
!
!
― Pablo Picasso

39. confidence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS
(besides Creativity)

40. “Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”

41. golf course
architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype

42. important in cross-cultural groups,
for whom visual sketches can
bridge gaps of understanding

43. Images existed before words,
and they do convey
a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien

44. media literacy
and
digital fluency

45. “The Whirl”, Dave Gray

46. Dan Roam “vivid thinking”

47. Dan Roam “vivid thinking”

48. metaphorical !
thinking!
+!
iconography

49. use metaphorical and visual thinking to
express complex and abstract ideas

50. THE

51. first symbols man created

54. Ads are the cave art
of the twentieth century
!
!
!
― Marshall McLuhan

55. what did you
think of first?

56. The Dot and the Line, 1963

57. The Dot and the Line, 1963

58. Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

60. analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

61. mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)

62. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-DEAS”

63. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-CANDY”

64. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
making ideas “grow” better

65. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship

66. visualizing!
untranslateable words
(check tables for words)

67. feline devastation
starlight fir
@serendipidoodle

68. try a Serendipidoodle!
http://bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer

69. Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

70. The Noun Project

71. symbolic Beatles’ songs

72. collaborative creativity: #remash

73. student logo contest: “What If?”

74. Crowdsourced!
Visual Vocab
create dictionary
of iconography

75. Crowdsourced!
Visual Icon!
Dictionary
- education
- idea
- technology
- information
- conflict
- love
- time
- change
- student
- government
- learning
- imagine
- travel
- question
!
!
- research/curation
- quote
- food
- success
- earth/world/global
- school
- team/group
- camera
- smartphone
- problem
- think
- imagine
- writing
- drawing

76. Essentializing
and
“Shortology”

77. David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas
!
create a children’s book
!
explain in 3 image panel

78. Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

80. “Shortology”

81. “Shortology”

82. 4 icon challenge

84. condensed shakespeare, mya gosling

85. MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

86. synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?

87. Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

88. !
Curation +
Presentation Idea:

89. images - no bullets
open-ended question
to lead class in
discussion

92. minimalist posters of a concept

93. minimalist posters
of a concept

95. choose 1 from the prompts
Essentializing & Shortology

96. Infographics
and DataViz

97. Benefits of Data Visualization

98. Benefits of Data Visualization

99. INSIGHT

101. listicle!
(Thinglink or info.gram)

102. listicle!
(Thinglink or info.gram)

103. use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction

104. use real life items or people
photorealism

105. photo essay style

106. Visualize…!
What’s in your head?
#ds106 challenge
*great for reflection

108. word cloud art

109. Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >

110. infographic remix
find an original
and make it better
more clear, fun,
aesthetic
metaphorical, etc.

112. DIY
with data set

113. DIY
with data set

114. Creation
Creator
Motivation
Pos/Neg Effects
relations between
people and ideas

115. re.vu
infographic CV

116. re.vu
infographic CV

117. Thinglink : Metadata Me

118. from Ikea’s Swedish cookbook
Blowout

119. flow chart a song
!
(or poem,
or speech)

120. 3 dimensional visualization of:
!
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible

121. BURNING HOUSE
if you had to
take only
10 things…

122. BURNING HOUSE
nothing material
is that important

123. picture VENNs

124. try:
Venn Diagram Humour
!
OR
Visualize an Analogy

125. http://webylife.com/
Graphic Design
and
Typography

126. metaphorical !
typography!
!
“where art meets type”

127. Stefan Sagmeister, metaphorical typographer

132. #bowie #literalalphabet

133. #literalalphabet
Bow-e
!
J-walk
!
M-bark
!
Y-knot

135. Myconography: Metaphorical Icons

136. #sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!

139. #hashtaggerie

140. try!
Metaphorical!
Typography
with your name, city,
or #oneword to describe your day

141. Sketchnoting
and
Graphic Facilitation

142. Visual Note-taking: some basics

143. Visual Note-taking: some basics

144. Sketchnote Scribes G+
(linked on the side menu)

145. you begin to see things
you never noticed
before.…
you get closer
to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

146. SQVID
Dan Roam

147. “I dreamed I was
a
SKETCH”
draw a sketch
avatar of yourself
what do your
go-to “people”
look like?

148. visible thinking: !
marginalia

149. networked reading @MrZiebarth

150. develop your
own vocabulary
@TracyClark08

151. Crowdsourced Sketchnotes of Encouragement
!
@ktenkely

152. Lynda Barry’s notebook grid!

153. develop your
own
“visual voice”
sketchnotes by @MrZiebarth
using Paper 53 Think Kit

154. !
mastery comes !
with muscle

155. put it on a tee!

156. remix logo

157. make it an ironic tee!

158. sketch:!
!
- a lyric from your favorite song
- a line from a beloved poem
- a quote you like

159. Photography
and
Cinemagraphs

160. try with photos!

161. a camera
teaches you to
SEE!
without a camera
photo safaris

162. stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

163. Find Whimsy in the World

164. weekly photo challenge

165. low barrier entry points: photo-a-day

166. “Ocean Pollution”
power of a simple image

167. Snap-enger Hunt with SnapChat
(photos now used for talking)

168. cinemagraphs
(mood? process?)

169. cinemagraphs
(mood? process?)

170. unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos
every 10 days

171. low barrier!
of entry points

172. TIME
what if we had…
drop everything and draw

173. environment: graffiti wall

174. thoughtfully consider
every space
as creative space

175. The Studio
Production

176. The Studio
Production

177. favourite apps

178. NOIR

179. Big Lens
or
Pixlromatic

180. Motion Portrait app

181. Motion Portrait app

182. pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reflection

183. pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reflection

184. Paper by Fifty-Three

186. draw over photos
(even over
tweets)
Paper 53 for iPhone

187. serendipitous “doodle-ramblings”
@Hombre_McSteez

188. Chomp !
!
by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched
together in iMovie

189. Chomp !
!
by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched
together in iMovie

190. Creative Speedsketching
Video:
Digital and Hybrid

191. Creative Speedsketching
Video:
Digital and Hybrid

192. #soundsketch

193. the power of the cut

194. the power of the cut

195. When people ask me
if I went to film school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’
Quentin Tarantino

196. appsmashing

197. PAPER 53
APPLE KEYNOTE
MAGIC MOVE

198. PAPER 53
APPLE KEYNOTE
MAGIC MOVE

199. draw on phone and import to laptop
layer in Keynote
duplicate slide + move a little
apply “magic move” as transition
import to iMovie, speed up when needed
add music and sound effects

200. PAPER 53
REFLECTOR APP
iMOVE

201. PAPER 53
REFLECTOR APP
iMOVE

202. Personal
Branding
“visual presence”

203. avatars
consistent
recognizable
high contrast / b&w is great
close up head shot

204. colour palette and style
research color meanings
make your entire digital presence that palette
understand complementary colors

206. logo design
have you thought about it?
MOO cards!
are cool!
(I have some
for you!)

207. IDEATE:
100 ideas in 10 minutes!
share best to Padlet
http://padlet.com/amyburvall/imagED

208. I just want to make
beautiful things…
even if nobody cares

209. your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge

210. @amyburvall
(on all social media)