Visual Aids in Learning

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Visual Aids in Learning

• Brittany Phillips
• Kelli Keeling
• Amy Molina

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Visual Literacy

• Visual literacy is acquired through many teaching
  and learning processes that children experience.
• No matter the content, how you design, arrange
  and present what you teach it will have a
  positive or negative affect on the visual
  literacy skill set.
• Clarity and consistency will help build skills.

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Visual Communication

• Every visual consists of three primary elements
  in a deliberate arrangement
• Visual
• Text
• Affective
• Arranging these effectively can overcome
  communication barriers such as sensory, cultural,
  and learning style.

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Visual Guidelines
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Good Visual Desi gn Poor Visual Design

• Balanced design
• Legible text
• Minimal letter styles and sizes
• Appealing colors
• Provides unity and direction
• Consistent and cohesive
• Relevant images

• Design lacks balance
• Text style difficult to read
• Too many letter styles
• Minimal color appeal
• Lacks unity and direction
• Inconsistent look
• Images disconnected

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Non-projected Visuals

• Real objects- help address kinesthetic learning,
  any objects that can be brought into the
  classroom for examination.
• Models- 3-D representations cannot be reasonably
  brought into classroom but provide an object to
  be studied.
• Exhibits- include dioramas and class displays
  that are created to illustrate instructional
  content.

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Digital Projectors

• Images shown on a digital projector can be
  captured with a digital still camera, a digital
  video camera, from an analog videotape using a
  video capture card, or even from an electronic
  smart board.
• Teaching and learning will continue to be
  visually enhanced through application when
  teachers learn more about the technology and
  schools increase their acquisition.

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Document Printing

• -This is a video camera mounted on a stand that
  captures and projects an image of whatever is
  placed on the stands document table.
• -Using top back lighting on the table and the
  video cameras zoom features, overhead
  transparencies, slides, documents, and 3-D
  objects can all be projected to a large group.

• Advantages
• Science experiments, small real objects, and
  procedural presentations can be easily shared.
• As a teacher gives a live demonstration the small
  details can be seen by the students.
• Teachers no longer need to walk around the room
  with demos because this machine will do it for
  them.

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Interactive Multimedia Elementary

• Trip to the zoo!
• Capture by pictures which then can be made into
  transparencies, posters, story books, etc.
• Students can make their own recordings of sounds
  for animals or comment on other sensory
  impressions.
• After reviewing kids can add pages of text that
  provide facts about each animal and its habitat
  as well as other graphics from clip art or their
  own drawings.

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Interactive Multimedia Secondary

• Use multimedia software, learners can work in
  teams to investigate and act out alternative
  scenarios to resolve a conflict.
• Students can use a digital camera to capture the
  setting of the conflict and the players involved,
  and create navigation buttons to jump to
  alternate resolution options.
• Each option screen can offer either pictures,
  text, and student audio recordings describing the
  option and the possible outcome if that option is
  taken.

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Why use visual technology?

• Allan Paivio conducted studies which led him to
  develop a theory explaining that humans use two
  processes to absorb input.
• Lagogens-verbal entities used to absorb verbal
  input
• Imagens-visual entities used to absorb visual
  imput
• When input is processed one or both of the
  subsystems are engaged, depending on type of
  input. This is known as the theory of dual
  coding.
• When lagogens and imagens are both used to
  present input, memory performance was better.

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Graphics

• Some examples of graphics are as follows
• Cartoons Drawings Diagrams

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Traditional Visual Resources

• Bulletin boards - Can display both print or
  graphic visuals and numerous other resources to
  create an effective instructional display.
• You may use a computer and desktop publishing
  software to create visuals for use on magnetic
  boards, felt boards, whiteboards, or even
  chalkboards.
• Overhead Projectors - Color or black ink can be
  used to create transparencies from a computer via
  a printer, or photocopied. Ink-jet or laser
  printers will create permanent transparencies.

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Resources

• DEMCO, (n.d.). Equipment. Retrieved Feb. 01,
  2006, from http.//www.demco.com
• Lever-Duffy, J., McDonald, J., Mizell, A.
  (2005). Teaching and learning with technology.
  2nd ed. Pearson.