Visual Literacy

An article in which Annette Lamb explains visual literacy and how to teach visual literacy skills.
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/digital/digital1.htm

An article by that explains visual literacy and its importance for students today.
http://www.learnnc.org/articles/vlintro0602

Online Visual Literacy Project.
http://www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html

Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery.
http://thejournal.com/the/printarticle/?id=17145

Visual Literacy and the Classroom
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/riesland.htm

The Visual Literacy White Paper
http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf

Reading and Understanding Images

An article from the North Carolina Teachers Network that outlines concepts for teaching students to read photographs.
http://www.learnnc.org/articles/vlphoto0602-1

Learning to Look
http://www.creativephotography.org/education/educatorsGuides/reframe/lookguid.htm

Teaching Visual Literacy Skills

The visual literacy activities section of this website provides lesson activities related to historical images teachers can use with students to develop visual literacy skills.
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/visual.html

A set of lesson plans designed to teach various visual literacy skills.
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html

The exercise involves viewing a set of fifteen images followed by a set of questions related to information provided within the images.
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html

Annette Lamb lists activities teachers can use in their classrooms to help students learn to read, interpret, apply or use, design and compose images.
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/digital/activity1.htm

Designing Visual Communication

Graphic Design Basics
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/ET650_online/MAPPS/GDBasics.html

Digital Camera Functions and Features

How Digital Cameras Work - In-depth explanations of how digital camera features work.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera.htm/printable

Information on digital camera features including common picture effects.
http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-6613935-8-7787430-1.html

Digital Camera: How to Choose
http://www.crutchfield.com/learningcenter/home/digitalcameras.html

Print Sizes

Digital Focus: More Photo Printing Tips
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,115656/printable.html#

How Many Pixels Do I Need?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/71587/104-0655577-5395933

Digital Camera Resolution Chart
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=getpage.jsp&A=getpage&Q=Product_Resources/resolution_chart.jsp

Digital-image Basics

Digital-image File Types Explained
http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/graphics/formats/formats.html

Why are my digital photograph files so huge while photos on other Web sites are much smaller? Examples of .jpg compression and its effect on image quality.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question289.htm