Hey guys,
Hope you had a great week. This week is all about Graphics and Visuals.
How can we use them to our benefit as teachers and what do our students know on how to find, work with and generally use them. It's widely spread that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is, of course, a saying/cliche that refers to the idea that complex stories can be described with just a single still image, or that an image may be more influential than a substantial amount of text. Therefore, there is an abondance of opportonities in using Graphics and Visuals. It can help you easily teach vocabulary and get your students more engaged (as it is more appealing), for example. It can help your students create better presentations and evolve creatively. You can use pictures to get your students to write what they see and much more...
I advise you to read this very interesting article on how images and pictures with text appear all around us. It suggests that every student can find them in his daily landscape and we can ask them to bring examples of such that have problematic grammar issues. What a great idea!!! This will help them practice their meta-linguistic knowledge!!
My tips are for you as teachers but I advise you to share them with your students, so they would use them too...
Having trouble finding pictures or images on the web? Most of us know how to use Google Pictures but Scribds makes it a lot easier for us teachers to find complete sets of them related to specific vocabulary.
Want to add something to a picture you find or make your own image? MS Paint could really come in handy! You already have it on Windows so why are you wasting time? Watch this here to learn all about it!!!
Want to go to the next level? Make your own cartoons? My fellow blogger Shuki Sela told me about a great website by the name of Toondoo.
Finally, there's Photofunia. I've encountered it a few times reading other blogs. It's fun for sure to play with pictures, but no-one has given me an idea on how to implement it in class, so I've decided to leave it here for you... Who would pick up the gauntlet??
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