Hooray! After I hit publish on this post, COETAIL Course 3 “Visual Literacy” will officially be finished! Course 3 Final Project Overview: For the Course 3 Final Project we were asked to work in a small global group to: Create a unit planner based on the enduring understandings of this course that support students in becoming…
Change movements are filled with people who made decisions to interrupt the Cycle of Socialization and the System of Oppression. What is the Cycle of Socialization? “The Cycle of Socialization” is the process by which we “get systematic training in how to be each of our social identities throughout our lives.” (Harro 2004, revised 2008).…
The best visuals are often ones designed with an eye toward simplicity. (PresentationZen.com) This Week’s Challenge: For COETAIL this week, we were challenged to take a visual we had previously created and update it. We were given a whole bunch of readings and videos on design principles in order to help us learn how to…
“Often more powerful than words or imagery alone, infographics utilize visual elements of design and words to convey a message in such a way that context, meaning and understanding are transcended to the observer in a manner not previously experienced.” (Instantshift.com). The Infographic: Making Ideas More Beautiful The challenge for COETAIL this week was to…
Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. (Cornell.edu). Why is collaboration so important right now? Last year was tough. We were physically at school doing hybrid learning for only four months. The other six months were spent completely online. It was hard to build connections.…
We need to learn to identify, read, and understand images – to become literate in visual language – in order to communicate successfully in our increasingly image-saturated culture.” (ToledoMuseum.org). Back to blogging! COETAIL Course 3 is up and running and I am back in action. The topic of course 3 is “Visual Literacy” and it’s all…