workshop at SC Midlands in South Carolina

1. @amyburvall
Image is Everything:!
Exploring Visual Literacy
for Critical Thinking
#R2SCMS16

2. http://bit.ly/imagED
drawing app
(Paper 53 recommended)

3. community

4. !
Introductions
see G-doc “Activities”
life in 3 emoji
CSI of you
3 of me
how am I? sketch

5. story of me in 3
what 3 images tell your story?

6. workshop trailer

7. THE

8. dual coding!
and!
picture superiority effect
Allan Paivio

9. caves at Chauvet
32-30,000 BP

10. Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more
visual/ oral

11. Tyranny of…

12. Scholars will be instructed through the eye.
It is possible to teach every branch of
human knowledge with the motion picture.
Our school system will be completely changed
inside of ten years
- Thomas Edison

13. disclaimer:!
!
don’t stress out
about your artistic
abilities…
this is about
thinking

14. Make the Mundane Matter

15. @donalddrawbertson
Unexpected Mediums

17. Challenge: draw your favorite activity

18. Now draw the same thing again…

19. Which was better?

20. Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol

22. “Unflattening” - PhD as graphic novel @Nsousanis

23. External memory aids

24. Are YOU a Visual Thinker?

25. “If only we could pull out !
our brain !
and use only our eyes.” !
!
!
― Pablo Picasso

26. confidence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS
(besides Creativity)

27. “Why Doodlers are the New ‘Now’”

28. golf course
architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype

29. important in cross-cultural groups,
for whom visual sketches can
bridge gaps of understanding

30. Images existed before words,
and they do convey
a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien

31. media literacy
and
digital fluency

32. metaphorical !
thinking!
+!
iconography

33. use metaphorical and visual thinking to
express complex and abstract ideas

34. THE

35. first symbols man created

37. Ads are the cave art
of the twentieth century
!
!
!
― Marshall McLuhan

38. what did you
think of first?

39. The Dot and the Line, 1963

40. Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

42. analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

43. mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)

44. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-DEAS”

45. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-CANDY”

46. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
making ideas “grow” better

47. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship

48. feline devastation
starlight fir
@serendipidoodle

49. try a Serendipidoodle!
http://bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer

50. Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

51. The Noun Project

52. symbolic Beatles’ songs

53. collaborative creativity: #remash

54. student logo contest: “What If?”

55. Crowdsourced!
Visual Vocab
create dictionary
of iconography

56. Crowdsourced!
Visual Icon!
Dictionary
- education
- idea
- technology
- information
- conflict
- love
- time
- change
- student
- government
- learning
- imagine
- travel
- question
!
!
- research/curation
- quote
- food
- success
- earth/world/global
- school
- team/group
- camera
- smartphone
- problem
- think
- imagine
- writing
- drawing

57. Essentializing
and
“Shortology”

58. David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas
!
create a children’s book
!
explain in 3 image panel

59. Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

61. 4 icon challenge

63. condensed shakespeare, mya gosling

64. MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

65. synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?

66. Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

67. !
Curation +
Presentation Idea:

68. images - no bullets
open-ended question
to lead class in
discussion

71. minimalist posters of a concept

72. minimalist posters
of a concept

74. Infographics
and DataViz

75. INSIGHT

77. listicle!
(Thinglink or info.gram)

78. use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction

79. use real life items or people
photorealism

80. photo essay style

81. Visualize…!
What’s in your head?
#ds106 challenge
*great for reflection

83. word cloud art

84. Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >

85. infographic remix
find an original
and make it better
more clear, fun,
aesthetic
metaphorical, etc.

87. DIY
with data set

88. Creation
Creator
Motivation
Pos/Neg Effects
relations between
people and ideas

89. re.vu
infographic CV

90. Thinglink : Metadata Me

91. from Ikea’s Swedish cookbook
Blowout

92. flow chart a song
!
(or poem,
or speech)

93. 3 dimensional visualization of:
!
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible

94. Sean Ziebarth

95. BURNING HOUSE
if you had to
take only
10 things…

96. BURNING HOUSE
nothing material
is that important

97. picture VENNs

98. http://webylife.com/
Graphic Design
and
Typography

99. metaphorical !
typography!
!
“where art meets type”

100. Stefan Sagmeister, metaphorical typographer

105. #bowie #literalalphabet

106. #literalalphabet
Bow-e
!
J-walk
!
M-bark
!
Y-knot

108. Myconography: Metaphorical Icons

109. #sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!

111. #hashtaggerie

112. try!
Metaphorical!
Typography
with your name, city,
or #oneword to describe your day

113. Sketchnoting
and
Graphic Facilitation

114. Visual Note-taking: some basics

115. Sketchnote Scribes G+
(linked on the side menu)

116. you begin to see things
you never noticed
before.…
you get closer
to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

117. visible thinking: !
marginalia

118. networked reading @MrZiebarth

119. develop your
own vocabulary
@TracyClark08

120. Crowdsourced Sketchnotes of Encouragement
!
@ktenkely

121. #Gridsgestures

122. Colour Palette
Use ColourLovers site (http://www.colourlovers.com/ )
if you can
*if not, just make it up
!
Think of a concept, idea, person, etc. from your discipline
!
assign a palette to them + justify your reasoning
(10 min)

123. http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add
To Kill a Mockingbird palette excerpt
@wickeddecent

124. Bio: stage in a process i.e. meiosis, mitosis,
cellular respiration
Chem: palette for each major family on the periodic table
P.E.: color coded system for tracking achievement
Art or Poli Sci: Movements
Explaining Intentions !
is the Key

125. Lynda Barry’s notebook grid!

126. develop your
own
“visual voice”
sketchnotes by @MrZiebarth
using Paper 53 Think Kit

127. put it on a tee!

128. remix logo

129. make it an ironic tee!

130. Photography
and
Cinemagraphs

131. a camera
teaches you to
SEE!
without a camera
photo safaris

132. stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

133. Find Whimsy in the World

134. weekly photo challenge

135. low barrier entry points: photo-a-day

136. “Ocean Pollution”
power of a simple image

137. Snap-enger Hunt with SnapChat
(photos now used for talking)

138. cinemagraphs
(mood? process?)

139. unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos
every 10 days

140. low barrier!
of entry points

141. TIME
what if we had…
drop everything and draw

142. environment: graffiti wall

143. thoughtfully consider
every space
as creative space

144. The Studio
Production

145. The Studio
Production

146. favourite apps

147. NOIR

148. Big Lens
or
Pixlromatic

149. Motion Portrait app

150. pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reflection

151. Paper by Fifty-Three

153. draw over photos
(even over
tweets)
Paper 53 for iPhone

154. Chomp !
!
by Christoph Neimann
($3.99)
interactive
videos can be stitched
together in iMovie

155. Creative Speedsketching
Video:
Digital and Hybrid

156. #soundsketch

157. the power of the cut

158. When people ask me
if I went to film school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’
Quentin Tarantino

159. appsmashing

160. PAPER 53
APPLE KEYNOTE
MAGIC MOVE

161. draw on phone and import to laptop
layer in Keynote
duplicate slide + move a little
apply “magic move” as transition
import to iMovie, speed up when needed
add music and sound effects

162. PAPER 53
REFLECTOR APP
iMOVE

163. OREO !
Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object)
*if you need more you can partner with someone
!
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict some
concept you teach / advertise your content
!
you may change the Oreo any way you like!
!
1,2,3 photos

164. from @wickeddecent Pop Culture class

165. your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge

166. @amyburvall
(on all social media)