"YouTube, the latest gift/threat, is a free video-sharing Web site that has rapidly become a wildly popular way to upload, share, view and comment on video clips. With more than 100 million viewings a day and more than 65,000 videos uploaded daily, the Web portal provides teachers with a growing amount if visual information share with a classroom full of young multimedia enthusiasts." (Dyck, 2007)
decompose, recompose, erase borders, reform and then finally feed
forward (which means to launch it out for other to begin their own
remix process). Out of the activities of remixing, tweaking, merging
etc. will come the innovative solutions, inventions and ideas of the
future. Although some of these words don't belong in a healthy
knowledge network (ex: bootleg, piracy, plagiarize) some of them may
have the makings of 21st century skills that we should be teaching the
students. How do you go about teaching students the skill of tweaking or repurposing an idea? Do we give students practice decomposing an idea or concept and then recomposing it? How do you take two
distinctly different ideas and merge them into a new one? When does the line between morphing an idea or a series of words become plagiarism?"
~ Bernard Schutze (author of Ideas in the Mix: The Heap)
“Out of the activities of remixing, tweaking, and merging will come the innovative solutions, inventions and ideas of the future…”
~ Bernard Schutze, author of Ideas in the Mix
What's all the buzz about Remix?
Us: The YouTube video below gives you a peak into the world of remix and profiles clips from Dr. Michael Wesch's brilliant presentation (about the remix culture) at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.
Visual Literacy
"If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?" ~ George Lucas, filmmaker
Visual communication is a process of sending and receiving messages using images. Visual literacy can be defined as “ability to construct meaning from visual images (Giorgis, Johnson, Bonomo, Colbert, & al, 1999: 146)”. To make meaning from images, the ‘reader’ uses the critical skills of exploration, critique and reflection.
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…. A lack of awareness of visual literacy effects your ability to be able to communicate effectively.
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