teaching with images media spring 2011

Winifred MetzMedia Resources Center

Heather Gendron Art Librarian

Effective use of visual media in teaching

Visual media collections & toolsBasic techniques for creating focus

news photos & footage

advertisements print, television, online

maps art images films &

documentaries television (or web)

shows

video games music videos personal

interviews charts & graphs websites, blogs,

vlogs, etc.

“create diverse learning experiences” *

reach different types of learners explain a concept illustrate a point offer visual evidence provide context generate discussion or illicit response from

students build communication skills engender critical thinking

*What the Best College Teachers Do (Bain, 2004)

Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.

Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.

Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.

Text vs. image

How to read… Films Images Maps Charts &

graphs Plans

Consider Context and/or

framing Lighting Sound POV

When you: teach diagnosis and treatment (e.g

medical, dental, and veterinary images)

help students develop a vocabulary of terms

assess students’ knowledge, understanding, and observational skills

Sharecropper’s Wife (1935), Arthur Rothstein

Incorporate Visual Thinking Strategies

What’s going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can we find?

Incorporate Visual Analysis Techniques

What is this made of? When and where was it

made? How do the formal

elements of line, tone, color, texture, shape, scale and space work to convey meaning?

What meaning do you think the artwork or object carries?

As you: screen a film or television

show in its entirety

provide a clip or series of clips

present an ad

play a music video

share a video game

TO: deconstruct or closely analyze

the work and/or content of a message

provide a comparison-contrast

illustrate key points

examine social, political, historical, or economic contexts of a particular message (how produced/received)

examine or illustrate film techniques

providing context and narrative in language classes

Yale’s Film Analysis guidehttp://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hillhttp://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/communications.html

Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing & Rhetoric http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/film.html

Duke University's Writing Studio's guide to writing about film http://uwp.duke.edu/wstudio/resources/documents/film.pdf

MRC Digital Media Labs Undergrad Library http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/pages/mediaLab/

Health Science Library’s Media Design Studiohttp://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/MDStudio/hardware.cfm

CFE’s Teaching Resource Labhttp://cfe.unc.edu/it/lab

Professional Schools

What faculty are doing at UNC: Political Ads

Student Group

▪ Short films, documentaries or ads

▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xjOIYAd_sk

▪ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-YuJZpo3mE

Recreate a film scene

Recreate a scene from a novel

Podcasts

Library ProvidedCreative Commons & other open sources

Start Here

Use the “Image Collections” link on the E-Research Tools page:

www.lib.unc.edu

UNC Digital Collections

Image Search Engines Google’s Advanced Image

Search Yahoo Image Search

Creative Commons image search Google Creative Commons search Yahoo Creative Commons search Flickr Creative Commons search

Internet Image Resources

Research Guideshttp://guides.hsl.unc.edu/cat.php?cid=24650

Finding Medical & Health Images/Films  Designing Effective Posters Introduction to Photoshop

Health Behavior and Health Education “Students will use these images to discuss the effectiveness of photography as a tool for social science research as a component of community organizing.”

Religious Studies “Students are writing response papers that bring these images into conversation with our readings from philosophy, theology, and social theory as they explore how these central social values are given shape through different media.”

Environmental Studies “Students from the honors section of fall 2009's Environment and Society (ENST 201H) chose art from the Ackland to install in the Study Gallery for this spring's class, Water and Human Rights (ENST 225H). These works reveal the different ways water has been understood and depicted in diverse societies and eras. They devised a paper assignment the current students will undertake.”

Contact: Robert Colby, PhD, Coordinator of Academic ProgramsAckland Art Museum, 919.966.2358 email: robert.colby@unc.edu

Media Resources Center Film Collection Filmfinder and Catalog searches

http://search.lib.unc.edu/filmfinder/

MRC Faculty Support http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/pages/facultySupport/

Media Resources Center Films Media Group's Master Academic

CollectionStreaming video of full length documentaries from Films Media Group

BBC Shakespeare Plays Streaming video of full length classic dramatic performances of 37 Shakespeare plays produced by BBC and Time-Life films

PBS Videos

MRC recommends http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/pages/streaming/

Video Search Engines

Sharing Sites

The Internet Archive A non-profit, originally founded to build an Internet

library. Seeks to provide permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

http://www.archive.org/details/movies Prelinger Archives Watson Kintner travel films University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Industry Videos

Collection

The Internet Archive University of California, San Francisco Tobacco

Industry Videos Collection

Hanna - Barbera Production Flintstones - Winston Compilation

The Internet Archive Our Mr. Sun, directed by Frank Capra