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Developing Visual Literacies for New Technologies
Description: Many people from oral cultures have not been specifically taught the basic
conventions and codes of “Western” visual communication placing them at a disadvantage
when using computer software that is built using those conventions. However, developing
visual literacies for the computer can be achieved quite simply and does not even require
computer access.
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Course participants will learn to think in image and text modes. This type of visual text underlies
the standard format in which information is presented on the computer screen. The literate person
of the future will need to able to “read” and “write” both in linguistic and visual languages.
Objective: To promote equality of resources by empowering computer users to develop the visual literacies
needed to work interactively with computer software.
Length of course: 5 days
Participants: Teachers and school administrators, community workers, career counselors, human
resources
and marketing managers for companies with multicultural workforces
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Visual Learning in Multicultural Environments
Description: An examination of picture/word texts produced by children and youth from diverse
cultural backgrounds to explore the cultural and historical practices that surround their production.
The course focuses on the changing formats of texts, the interpretation and analysis of visual
messages, and ideas for visual learning.
Objective: To understand the ways children, youth and adults use visual resources during the
process of learning.
Length of course: 6 two-hour sessions
Participants: Teachers and school administrators, community workers, career counselors, human
resources and marketing managers for companies with multicultural workforces
Methodology: A unique combination of visual social semiotics with socio-cultural theory, providing
a useful framework to study the range of social knowledges and literacies called upon when makers
produce
visual texts.
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Visual Language in the Community
Description: An ongoing project designed specifically for the Neve Yosef Community Center in Haifa,
Israel, Visual Language in the Community is especially well suited to bring together children and youth
of diverse backgrounds.
Objectives: (1) To encourage participants to actively take part in visual communications by enhancing
their abilities to understand, handle, and manipulate visual information; and (2) To introduce a common
language the language of visuals — to open a new channel of communication through which the
culturally diverse members of the Neve Yosef community can meet each other.
Length of course: Throughout the school year
Participants: Children and youth (ages 7-15)
Methodology: Participants use image-manipulation software on downloaded or scanned images to
produce visual texts that describe proverbs from their country of origin. |
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