Images...

Photo taken by myself ..August 2009.

Wow I just followed the instructions under the optional Image Manipulation section of the notes and it worked......you give great simple easy to follow instructions Wendy.  Thank you! Maybe I should wait till I attempt the Digital Video task first....????
The use of a tool like this in the primary school classroom would be an advantage as it is not only engaging, it allows learners with different learning styles to explore.  The kinastethic learner would be well catered for as would the visual learner.  The audible learner, well perhaps the teacher could create a podcast to assist with instructions? 
Giorgis, Johnson, Bonomo, Colbert  (1999, p. 149) define visual literacy  "as the ability to construct meaning from visual images".
Here within lies the importance to 21st century learners.  The learners today not only need to be literate but they need to be visually literate.  Having a look around there are images everywhere and without realising we use these images to interpret the world in which we live.  The stop sign at the corner, the McDonalds golden arches, the emblem at the school where you will teach, cartoons, pictures in newspaper... are all a form of  visual literacy.
These images can be used to support and encourage critical thinking with in our classrooms.   (Harvard project zero, n.d.) identifies asking learners questions about what they see and think about an image  and  what do these images make them wonder,  stimulates critical thinking
The reading entitled Practical Ways to Use Digital Images in Teaching and Learning, made me think of Blooms Taxonomy as I was reading it. The words illustrate, inspire, enforce, categorise, diagnose, stimulate and encourage are all actions that learners could undertake in a learning environment in our classrooms.


Giorgis, C.,  Johnson, N.J.,  Bonomo, A.,  Colbert, C. (1999).  Visual literacy: reading teacher. as cited in Visual literacy white paper. Retrieved from http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf
Harvard project zero, n.d.)