Learning.21stCentury.Snapshot - Home. Cyber Bullying. Aptify e-Business: Product Catalog. Visual Literacy Activities with Online Resources. Last week I talked about visual literacy in Visual Literacy Activities with Children's Picture Books. I suggested children's picture books make a natural place to start teaching kids about visual literacy.
Here are some online resources I've found that also support visual literacy. Almost any website can be examined from the perspective of its visual communications. Encourage your kids to become aware of what's behind the type and placement of images, choice and size of font, subheadings, flow of one chunk of text to another, colours etc. This helps them not only to develop visual literacy skills they can use in their own projects, but also to become more media savvy as consumers. Here are particular websites that I think are stand-outs in terms of visual literacy possibilities for kids: At Howtoons, you'll find instructions on how to build all sorts of things. Your teens might be interested in Clean Up Your Mess which explains visual design beautifully.