Making use of ICT to developvisual literacy

GA ICT Working Group workshop

GA conference

University of Derby

April 9th 2010© Ahmed Zahid

Making use of ICT to developvisual literacy

• Enhanced role of ICT in KS3 curriculum and new primary proposals

• Visual literacy in KS3 geography … pupils should be able to use …. photographs, satellite images

• Develop a sense of place through enquiry and visual literacy

• Tools and techniques for using images

• Sources of images on the internet

Some things to try ….

• Ready, steady ….. describe • Picture reveals• 9 number board or A question of …• Odd one out• Extend the photo• Dingbats• Photo to sketch• Wordle

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7 98A question of water on disk

Which is the odd one out?

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From photo to sketch with www.dumpr.net

www.wordle.net

Excellent websites for geographical photos

• A Different View www.geography.org.uk/adifferentview• GA photo gallery

www.geography.org.uk/resources/photogallery/• Flickr www.flickr.com• A day in pictures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/default.stm• Geograph www.geograph.org.uk/• FreeFoto www.freefoto.com/index.jsp• Images of the World www.imagesoftheworld.org/• Stacey Peak Media www.stacey.peak-media.co.uk/index.html

On your disks

• Images for you to use

• Websites for you to try

• PowerPoint presentations for you to use and adapt

• Movies to watch

• Time to explore!