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: [email protected]
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