Every Picture Tells a Story

Up. (2009). Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/04/11/up-pixar-render.jpg

Why Images in Education?

• Students need to read and process information visually.

• Brain research suggests images are central to information processing.

• Educated seeing forms deeper meaning

Andrea Mantegna (1595/1500). Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Retrieved July 14, 2009, from http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?1184+0+0

Artemisia Gentileschi. (1625). Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holoferndes. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/074.jpg

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Leonardo da Vinci. (1474). Giner=vra de’ Benci. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2001/virtuebeauty/fig06.htm

Ambrogio de Predis. (1493). Bianca Maria Sforza. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.aiwaz.net/uploads/gallery/bianca-maria-sforza-1205-mid.jpg

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Visually Literate

• How to decode visually• Unique learning modality that compliments

verbal and mathematical intelligences• Affective learning engages students on a

personal level.

Why Storytelling with Digital Images?

• Humanistic• Cross-disciplinary• Cross-cultural• Mult-sensory, multi-modal• Constructivist• Memory and narrative

Digital Storytelling

• Center for Digital Storytelling• Step-by-step description of the digital

storytelling process

Palmer Hayden. (1937). The Janitor Who Paints. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3301967797_c19baa7278.jpg

South German. (1480/1490). The Holy Kinship. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/2547158605_93d3796736.jpg?v=1212602628

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What story do you want to tell?