The first way to view visuals is through presentation software.
Presentation software is a common media for presenting information, as its name implies. This software is great for showing students the main components of a concept you are trying to teach. The most popular example of presentation software is Microsoft's PowerPoint. Many presentation softwares give the option of printing slides out with room for notes on the side. This is especially helpful for students who are kinesthetic as well as visual learners.
Digital images are the second way to view visuals.
Digital images include any photo taken with a digital camera or scanner. These photos are transferred to a computer and can be stored in many ways (CDs, DVDs, USB drives, etc.). Digital images can be shown to your class through a plain old computer screen or, like the presentation software, through a projector.
Another way to view visuals is with overhead projection.
Overhead projectors are boxes with glass on the top. Light from a lamp inside is condensed by a lens and passes through a transparent sheet placed on top of the glass. A lense/mirror at the top of the projector projects the transparent image onto a wall or screen. Overhead projectors have become a little outdated as of late due to document cameras, but they can still be useful in classrooms. If students are completing a worksheet in class, a copy of the worksheet can be made into a transparency and the teacher can work along with them on the board using a wet erase marker.
The last way to view visuals is through printed visuals.
Printed visuals are pretty much what you think they are- images or graphics that have been printed out. This can include behavior charts, articles printed off the Internet, textbooks, and name tags, just to name a (very!) few. The possibilities of printed visuals are endless. This type of visual can be especially helpful to students who have trouble keeping up with the rest of the class or just need a little extra help (for example, printing off a PowerPoint or a webpage).
Well, I hope that you learned a lot, or at least a little, about different ways to view visuals. There is a lot of crossover between the four formats, so hopefully it was not too confusing. Now, go forth and present pictures to your pupils!
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Abbey,
ReplyDeleteI forget that printed resources "count" as visuals! Since our culture, as a whole, is both visually-oriented and tech-savvy (a video clip invariably seems the best way to quickly get an audience's attention), sometimes I forget that more old-fashioned methods count, too! Since I'm a tactile learner (the perfect kind for traditional lecture/note-taking/here's-you're-handout type of learning), that gives me a bit of extra satisfaction. I know that I'm biased. ;)
p.s. Again, I liked the pics you chose for each section!
Abbey,
ReplyDeleteWhat is an over-head projector??? (I'm just kidding!) but I wonder what types of technological advances will be made 10 to 20 years from now! Do you think they might have holographic images in the classroom? That could be pretty cool! I must say I do appreciate a printed visual just as much as any visual person, I Love getting to hold onto and maybe even keep these types of visuals. Also, I wonder if students art projects could count as one of these visuals?
Abbey,
ReplyDeleteI really appreciated your format of this post. I think you were really effective in talking about the different visual elements in the classroom. Not only did you give a "definition" of sorts but you added a picture for each one and a detailed description. Thank you for being so thorough and awesome!
I smiled when Katy asked about the overhead projector. I wondered about this and went searching to find out when it was considered obsolete--1990's???? Is that possible? The culprit is the ELMO, but many school's budgets could not afford to place the technology in every classroom until the last few years. The popularity of the ELMO was that it would project anything--no transparencies needed! It is interesting when new technologies make something obsolete so quickly. Curious person that I am, I wondered about other obsolete technologies--I am familiar with all but one of these!
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I would think that the fax machine really blew the telegraph out of the water. But it must have paper in order to be successful. I can remember faxing documents to clients and even when it was sent successfully from our end, if they ran out of paper there was no message. But now we have e-mail and portable document formats (PDF). Thank goodness. The fax machines are now approaching the obsolete hall.
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