March 2009 Blog Posts (18)

Possible Theoretical Breakdown

Dorothy Lehmkuhl applies a popular classification of right-brained or left brained thinking when she identifies the right brained learner as primarily visual/spatial and left brained learner as auditory/linguistic. She goes on to say that the right brained learner is more sensual, creative, direct and even primitive. Interestingly, it is the left brain that by contrast “responds to basic sensory experiences: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell – through words, thus losing much emotional… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 31, 2009 at 6:49pm — No Comments

External Seeing

It is undeniable that the brain’s ability to interpret “external seeing” is complex and multi-faceted. Through the two processes of “visual simile” and “pattern seeking”, the learner acquires knowledge visually. The associative flexibility of the mind to make visual similes allows learners to break away from objectivity and glimpse a profound reality that lies within an object or idea. Activities in external seeing which are indicators of this type of learning are: upside-down drawing, drawing… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 31, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

A Strong Visual Intelligence

Core Characteristics:



• Spatial Awareness - solving problems using spatial orientation

• Non-sequential Reasoning - thinking in divergent ways

• Visual Acuity - assessment of information based on principals of design and aesthetics

• Imagination - seeing the possibilities before engaging them in the physical world

• Small motor coordination - creating, building, arranging, decorating



Students with a strong visual intelligence:



•… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 31, 2009 at 10:40am — No Comments

Visual Intelligence

After his stroke, Mr. P still had outstanding memory and intelligence. He could still read and talk, and mixed well with the other patients on his ward. His vision was in most respects normal---with one notable exception: He couldn't recognize the faces of people or animals. As he put it himself, "I can see the eyes, nose, and mouth quite clearly, but they just don't add up. They all seem chalked in, like on a blackboard ... I have to tell by the clothes or by the voice whether it is a man or a… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 31, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Visual Intelligence

I would be delighted if anyone tell me regarding research evidences telling the visual intelligences and its impact on learning.

Added by praful case on March 31, 2009 at 3:52am — No Comments

Are You a Visual-Spatial Learner?

Please complete this questionnaire to find out how your brain works! Answer "Yes" or "No" to the following questions ("Sometimes" = "Yes").



1. Do you think mainly in pictures instead of words? _____



2. Are you good at solving puzzles or mazes? _____



3. Do you like to construct things with your hands? _____



4. Do you often lose track of time? _____



5. Do you know things without being able to tell how or why? _____



6. Do you… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 30, 2009 at 10:49am — No Comments

Employing Visual Metaphors

Just as important as any other aspect of visual rhetoric is the use of visual metaphor and the recognition that we often use visual metaphors as a way of understanding the world.



Robert N. St. Clair in Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric, provides this example of the way metaphors function as cognitive models, or ways of knowing:



A teacher who sees students as fragile human beings is using metaphor. He treats them as eggs and is afraid to hurt… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 29, 2009 at 11:12pm — No Comments

Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy

Are you trying to “read” a picture or “write” a website? Have you been asked to evaluate or reflect on a symbol or visual image? Hopefully, this handout and the others in this series will give you a place to think about how the elements of communication and persuasion are embedded in texts you don’t just read but see. Images, not just words, provide us with information and change the ways we think, reason, and act. They can speak to us in powerful ways.



The simplest definition for… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 29, 2009 at 11:03pm — No Comments

The Six Methods of Visual Listening



A MULTI-SENSORY APPROACH TO VISUAL LISTENING




Making a room too quiet for comfort is a common mistake. Extremely quiet rooms can produce a feeling of sensory deprivation. Music, on the other hand, can soothe emotions and excite enthusiasm, while giving students a sense of cultural identity.



New studies suggest that playing music—and even just listening to it—may improve learning, memory, logic and general creativity. Plato once said, "Music is a more potent… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 27, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Visually Intensive Green Program

I need all the help I can get creating a visually stimulating 3 min online educational program that supports green practices. Any help, tips, resources or partnerships are welcomed.

Thank you!

Added by Jessie Upp on March 26, 2009 at 11:09pm — 1 Comment

A Rationale for Visual Communication

Just as reading is fundamental to education, visual communication is a tool professors must use effectively—and pass along to their students.



In 1992 I was setting up a studio for a new computer art course at the College of DuPage. Needing a break, I went to visit my brother Don outside of Nashville.



Shortly after I arrived, we were looking at a problem he was having with his PC. His then three-year-old son, Clint, wanted to help.



He climbed into his… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 25, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Visual Teaching

Visual Teaching

Incorporating visual communication into your class increases students' visual literacy for a changing world.



What are the benefits of including visuals in the college classroom?

Aside from varying the pattern and pace of the class, thus keeping your students awake, there are other benefits to this holistic teaching strategy. Students learn to analyze visual communications and tell a manipulative presentation from an objective one. As they… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 24, 2009 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“It is helpful to remember that we don’t teach reading and writing to produce only poets and writers, but rather to improve thinking.” Betty Edwards



Overview of the philosophy of Betty Edwards:



· Drawing is not a “magical” ability rather something like a sport or other academic area that requires practice. So many students claim they cannot “do” art or are not talented in art when they walk into the art studio. However, taking art is like taking French, why… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 23, 2009 at 2:35pm — No Comments

Visual Literacy Research: Where to Start

There is much research yet to be done. As mentioned, the literature about visuals and visual literacy is overwhelming. This author is asked from time to time where a neophyte researcher interested in visual literacy should start. The temptation is to answer, “with the meta-analyses and reviews of the literature” (e.g., Levie, 1987; Levie & Lentz, 1982, Moore & Readance, 1984; Winn, 1987), but that is not a very helpful response. The best advice would be to read carefully three books:… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 20, 2009 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Photographic Memory?

Consecutive Images



When an image gets on the retina of an eye it does not just disappear thereafter. Our brain continues to see the perceived image for some time. But it happens only in case the picture is not “blocked" by something else. If you disguise the picture you saw with another picture or even with 20 different pictures imposed on each other the effect of consecutive images will not be reached.



Therefore the so-called inertness of the visual analyze (also… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 15, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Critical Visual Thinking

When children enter the educational system, typically they go through some standard form of screening. It generally takes twenty minutes or less. The screening protocol usually looks at areas such as:



- Drawing and Copying – Hand preference, approach to task, comfort level and fine motor/grip.

- Remembering – Visual and auditory, remembering what is seen and heard.

- Building With Blocks – Perception, fine motor/dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

- Using Language –… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 10, 2009 at 8:56pm — No Comments

Perception

Perception, narrowly defined, is awareness. Most of what we perceive is perceived visually— perhaps three quarters or more (Barry, 1994; Hansen, 1987). Perception is sensing, and visual perception is seeing. Studies of perception at that level are beyond the scope of this chapter. Still, the relevance to visual literacy of perception more broadly defined is obvious. Barry (1994) defines perception as “the process by which we derive meaning from what we see, hear, taste, and smell” (p. 114,… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 6, 2009 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Visual Learning/Visual Teaching

The visual literacy movement has been tied to the field of education from the outset. While the research on visualization has demonstrated that visual skills can be taught (Winn, 1982a, and others), there has been no standard approach to teaching visual skills. Although visual skills and visual literacy instruction in the schools is the exception rather than the rule, in several instances visual literacy courses have been introduced. Dake (1982) reviewed 50 visual literacy curricula… Continue

Added by Timothy Gangwer on March 2, 2009 at 9:01pm — No Comments

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