Additional resources
Book
Week 2002 (All CBCA Book of the Year shortlisted
titles and related Scan reviews)
Author and illustrator sites
Visual
literacy sites
Background readings
Illustrator’s
notes by Matt Ottley (for Luke’s way of
looking)
Children’s Book Council of Australia
web site
Author
and illustrator sites
Janeen Brian
Janeen
Brian
Profiles
– Janeen Brian
South
Australian author – Janeen Brian
Terry Denton
Ned
Kelly.com.au
The home of Terry Denton
Mike Dumbleton
Mike Dumbleton’s web site
South
Australian author – Mike
Dumbleton
Bob Graham
Authors
and illustrators
Author
interview – Bob Graham
Focus
on fiction – Authors on the Net E-G (Bob Graham)
Stephen Michael King
Lateral
Learning Speakers’ Agency: Stephen Michael King
Profiles
– Stephen Michael King
Narelle Oliver
Plateau
Press
Profiles
– Narelle Oliver
Visual
literacy sites
The
on-line visual literacy project
The
result of a university course entitled The principles of visual
literacy, this site presents information about the significance
of visual awareness as a key element to communication. The site
opens with an animated graphic requiring Quicktime. A succinct,
general introduction to visual literacy follows listing basic elements: Dot; Line; Shape; Direction; Texture; Hue; Saturation; Value; Scale; Dimension;
and Motion. Each is given a detailed description and is well
supported by graphics and animated images drawn from art, motion
pictures, print advertising and other media. For each page, References provides a comprehensive list of text and image sources.
Teachers will find this site invaluable in developing an understanding
of the various elements of the composition of graphics, and their
significance in positioning viewers in a particular way. T. Patterson
USER
LEVEL: Professional
KLA: English
SYLLABUS: English K-6; English 7-10
SCIS SUBJECTS: Visual literacy
KEYWORDS: Visual literacy; visual text
PUBLISHER: Pomona College, USA
REVIEW DATE: 3/6/02 [701]
SCIS 1093367
Visual
literacy
This
site forms part of a doctoral thesis proposal that visual arts taught
in a Constructivism learning environment can enhance Visual
literacy skills necessary to Critical viewing in the
information age. Defining key terms, such as Visual communication and Visual perception, the site explores how people use Visual discrimination to build a knowledge base so that they
can critique what is being visually communicated, thus becoming
visually literate. Each link leads to a bibliography related to
that element, which teachers may find useful for further exploration.
The window on the home page, through which browsers are invited
to look, links to a series of visuals. These are not supported by
written commentary, limiting their usefulness to teachers in understanding
the elements of visual literacy. Through pages of HTML code, the
effects of Colours, Shapes, Lines, and Textures are briefly demonstrated and compared. Frameworks provides
more detailed information about the doctoral thesis and its Literature
review. T. Patterson
USER LEVEL: Professional
KLA: English
SYLLABUS: English K-6; English 7-10
SCIS SUBJECTS: Visual literacy
KEYWORDS: Visual literacy; visual text
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto, Canada
AUTHOR: Bev Branton
REVIEW DATE: 3/6/02 [701.8]
SCIS 1093375
The Salon/Poolside
- Visual literacy
Visual literacy
& picture books
Background
readings
Callow, J. ‘Reading the future. Looking ahead: the future of
visual literacy is here now’, Scan 19(2), 2000, pp 8-11.
Callow, J. ‘Reading
the future. The literacy demands of visual text: deconstructing
a web page’, Scan 19(3), 2000, pp 15-16.
Higgins, S.
‘Using visual texts to enhance storytelling’, Scan 21(1),
2002, pp 4-7.
Moline, S. ‘Visualising
information’, Scan 19(2), 2000, pp 12-16.
Ottley, M. ‘Picture
books: beneath the skin’, Scan 21(2), 2002, pp 6-13.
Patterson, C.
‘Connecting visual literacy and evidence based practice’, Scan,
21(3). Forthcoming (includes suggested activities for selected 2002
shortlisted books).
Spence, B. ‘The
literacy demands of visual text: reading the pictures’, Scan 21(2), 2002, pp 4-5.
Zammit, K. ‘Reading
the future: The literacy demands of visual text: working with new
learning environments’, Scan 19(3), 2000, pp 10-14.
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