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	Dr. Janet Gino provides consulting services and develops and facilitates courses about multicultural visual communication, visual language and visual literacies  to educational and academic institutions, community, commerce, and government. “People from different cultural backgrounds use, manipulate and combine visual resources in different, unique ways”      Dr. Janet Gino She advises her clients on how to present corporate ideas and marketing or business materials in visual formats to meet the rapidly changing situations of today’s technologically focused society. This knowledge is crucial to entrepreneurs, organizations involved in entrepreneurship, and NGOs that encourage the development of small businesses.   Dr. Gino offers her vast experience in communicating complex ideas to audiences of differing cultures, perceptions, social infrastructure, educational levels, and life experiences. Through her guidance, organizations and individuals discover the nuances of a global approach to creating visual texts and learn ways to convey complicated messages in a format that their audiences can understand and “buy into.” All the original courses and workshops she has developed are based on her research and expertise in this field. They further this concept with their hands-on approach, making use of illustrated presentations/discussions, practical exercises, and visual analysis sessions.   See Dr. Janet Gino’s virtual poster, “No One Taught Them the Rules.” Read an abstract of Dr. Janet Gino’s thesis, “Visual Meaning Making: Children’s Texts from an Intercultural Israeli Neighbourhood” (PDF format.) (Read the abstract in Hebrew, PDF format.) Courses & Workshops Developed and Facilitated by Dr. Janet Gino Developing Visual Literacies for New Technologies Visual Learning in Multicultural Environments Visual Language in the Community Year/Location Course Name Participants 2007 Israel Children to Children: Building Bridges from Photographs and Words 4th grade Arab-speaking children 2007 Israel The Visual Language of Advertisements Senior managers, African governmental offices 2007 Israel Creative Thinking and Visual Language Entrepreneurs and trainers from around the world 2007 Israel Multiliteracies for Science and Technology Korean teachers of gifted students 2007 Israel Creative Thinking and Visual Learning for Early Childhood Education Korean kindergarten managers and teachers 2006 Tanzania Tanzania Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Middle and senior managers 2006 Israel Packaging: A Marketing Tool Entrepreneurs and trainers from around the world 2006 Israel English and Visual Language: Literacies for Computer Use Teenagers from the Ural mountains, FSU 2005 Kenya Organization and Management of Income-Generating Projects Experienced managerial and financial personnel 2005 Israel Communication through Making: Designing Multimodal Texts School-age children and university students 2004 Cameroon Organization and Management of Income-Generating Projects Community leaders
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