Using Images Critically and Creatively

Using Digital Images Critically and Creatively

Kieran Donaghy

“The soul never thinks without an image.”

Aristotle

Rule of thumb

Oral 10%Visual 35%Oral & Visual 65%

Source: Najjar, LJ (1998) Principles of educational multimedia user interface design

“Numerous experiments have proven that subjects learn and remember material that is concrete (imagery-related) better than that which is abstract.”

Goldstein (2009)

“Whereas a text supplies the language, explicitly, an image implies it and thus creates a void to be filled in the classroom.”

Keddie (2008)

“It is because pictures say nothing in words that so much can be said in words about them.”

Maley, Duff & Grellet (1980)

Visual literacy

“The ability to analyse images, to talk about how they work, to evaluate visual texts critically and competently can be termed visual literacy.”

Goldstein (2008)

Summary of the session

1. Learning and remembering vocabulary

2. Learning and remembering grammar

3. Learning and remembering idioms

4. Describing images

5. Analysing and interpreting images

6. Student projects and presentations

7. Where we can find high quality digital images

Learning and remembering vocabulary

Learning and remembering grammar

Learning and remembering idiomatic expressions

“Use combinations of text and images which are

memorable.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

Stars and stripes

Student projects and presentations

“Whiskey is liquid gold.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass – an agreeable interlude.”

James Joyce

“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

Humphrey Bogart’s last words

Àngels Consuegra

...Welcome to My Experience

What is OrphanAid Africa?

• Non-profit organization headquartered in California

• Founded in Ghana in 2002

• Situated in West Africa • Over 23 million people • Official language is English

Where does OrphanAid Africa work?

Anyeyah

The Orphanage

What is OrphanAid Africa‘s aim?

• Support orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana

Ensure that children grow up in safe and permanent Ensure that children grow up in safe and permanent family settings with appropriate care and protectionfamily settings with appropriate care and protection

kieran.donaghy@uab.cat

Sources

Goldstein, B, Using Images, Cambridge 2008Keddie, J, Images, Oxford 2008Maley, A.,Duff, A. And Grellet, F. In the Mind’s Eye, Oxford1980 http://www.adbusters.com/http://www.flickr.com/http://www.thevisualdictionary.net/http://www.wordia. com/http://www.wordle.net/http://www.worth1000.com/