Other uses of Glogster have demonstrated how versatile this poster-creation tool can be when partnered with solid teaching pedagogy and teacher creativity. Teachers have glommed onto Glogster with gusto, using it in place of traditional poster assignments. In The Visual Literacy White Paper, Bamford suggests that a lack of awareness of visual literacy skills will impede students ability to communicate effectively, since visual images are becoming the predominant form of communication across a range of learning and teaching resources delivered across a range of media and formats." (Bamford, 2004, p.2). The visual, audio, and textual capacity of Glogster not only will appeal to digital learners, it has the potential to support the visual literacy skills that are becoming essential skill sets for 21st century learners. Glogster goes beyond being just another scrapbbooky" tool - it introduces students to 3-D communication skills, requiring them to merge the left and right sides of the brain as they seek to communicate and evaluate both information and meaning. Anne Bamford, Art and Design University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaĪfter closer scrutiny, some clearly profound learning benefits for the tool emerged. (Giorgis, Johnson, Bonomo, Colbert, & al, 1999: 146) To make meaning from images, the reader uses the critical skills of exploration, critique, and reflection." Visual literacy can be defined as the ability to construct meaning from visual images. Visual communication is a process of sending and receiving messages using images. VISUAL LITERACY AND THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNER
At first glance, all I could think of was the number of trips to the drugstore this useful tool would have saved me if I still had children in school. Memories from those chaotic times came to mind recently as I browsed Glogster, an exciting poster-creation tool that provides a platform for students to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster masterpiece. Eventually, I got smart and started to buy a stash of poster board so Id be ready for those Sunday night poster panic attacks. That last minute revelation would prompt a harried scramble through the house, looking for poster board and construction paper a search that often ended in a frantic drive to the drug store at 10 oclock at night to buy poster board and whatever else was needed for the project. I have to make a poster for social studies (or science or language arts) and its due tomorrow!" he or she would say with a panicked look. Many a Sunday night, Id be settling back in my chair to read the newspaper, and around the corner would come one of my children.
Even though my five children have long since completed elementary and middle school, many recollections from their school years linger in my memory.
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