2. Effective use of visual media in teaching
Visual media collections & tools
Basic techniques for creating focus
3. 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.
4. “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)
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5. Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.
6. Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.
7. Text vs. image
Menzel, P., & D’Aluisio, F. (2005). Hungry planet: What the world eats. Napa, Calif.: Material World Press.
8. How to read…
Consider
Films
Context and/or
Images
framing
Lighting
Sound
POV
Maps
Charts & graphs
Plans
9. 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
10. 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?
Sharecropper’s Wife (1935), Arthur Rothstein
11. 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?
12. 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
13.
Yale’s Film Analysis guide
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/
The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
http://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
14.
MRC Digital Media Labs
Undergrad Library
http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/pages/mediaLab/
Health Science Library’s
Media Design Studio
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/MDStudio/hardware.cfm
CFE’s Teaching Resource Lab
http://cfe.unc.edu/it/lab
Professional Schools
15. 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
22. 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.”
23. 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 Programs
Ackland Art Museum, 919.966.2358 email: robert.colby@unc.edu
24. 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/
25. Media Resources Center
Films Media Group's Master Academic Collection
Streaming 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
28. 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
29. The Internet Archive
University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Industry
Videos Collection
Hanna - Barbera Production Flintstones - Winston Compilation
UNC’s Guide to Writing an Art History Paper (UNC’s writing center) – on your handout
Full docs, films, television shows taught in support of a variety of campus departments, programs and centers
English class on Shakespeare -Instructor made compilations of clips from several different productions of the same play
Class on film - Professor made compilation of clips to demonstrate lighting effects & certain camera techniques (Divorcing these moments from the action of the film – specifically to demonstrate technical elements of filmmaking)
Numerous language classes use film to provide cultural context and illustrate use of language
Not everyone wants to make film clip compiliations. We have a faculty in History who prefers queue up scenes and uses primarily VHS to illustrate specific scenes in class
Film poster from “The Seven Year Itch”
Contemporary thinkers on media literacy have argued that the same habits that a good reader brings to a written text are those that a critical viewer brings to a visual text; enhancing one effortlessly enhances the other.
In both, a critical thinker predicts, makes connections, infers, asks questions, and interprets.
In both, meaning is made through the details of character, theme, plot, mood, conflict, and symbolism.
Using visual media effectively may help guide students to be active interpreters.
(PBS Learning Resources)
The Yale Film analysis Guide is straitforward and easy to use. It is geared toward helping students become familiar with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema.
MRC labs provides
Production equipment - cameras, mics, light kits, booms, green screens – essentially everything but the clapper
Audio Lab
Editing stations
One to one training sessions
Online tutorials
Political Ads - Over the last few years, especially in election years, several classes have produced a variety of politically-oriented material, including campaign ads, attack ads, public service announcements, in both video and still image formats. For the video projects most students have used iMovie but some groups prefer Final Cut Pro, and for the montages and still images students have worked with Photoshop.
Student group documentaries -There have been a few short and feature-length documentaries that UNC students have produced in the lab. The most recent one is a series of interviews with homeless people in Chapel Hill and Durham, for an organization called HOPE, which is a part of the Campus Y.
Recreating scenes from films – Some English classes have asked their students to recreate pivotal scenes in genre specific films (horror, drama, comedy) This has now been adopted by folks teaching literature – they’re asking their students to recreate scenes from novels they are teaching.
Podcasts - Several classes this semester are working on audio-only or primarily sound-based projects. Some of these projects take the form of and episode of a podcast in the style of NPR and CNN shows, and last fall all the students in one class recorded projects in the style of the NPR show "This I Believe."
Health Behavior and Health Education 710Community Capacity, Competence, and Power: Community-based Participatory Research and PhotovoiceEugenia Eng and Alex Lightfoot
“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 138: Religious Freedom in Early Modern Europe Randall Styers
Spinoza Project Gallery Guide
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.
Water and Human Rights - Environmental Studies 225HGreg Gangi