EDUCAUSE | visual literacy

Tune In May 6: Free Web Seminar on Digital Visual Literacy

pkurkowski — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:01:04 -0500

As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy has developed into an essential skill for 21st-century college graduates. With advancements in technology and the digitizing of information, digital literacy has also grown in importance. Digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability to critically analyze digital visual materials, create effective visual communications, and make judgments and decisions using visual representations of thoughts and ideas. These skills, which actively engage our cognitive processing of visual images, have evolved from concepts at the intersection of a range of established disciplines.

In this free May 6 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, Digital Visual Literacy: Interdisciplinary Skills for the 21st-Century Learner, presenters John Gibson, Glendale Community College, Oris Friesen, Mesa Community College, and Florence Martin, University of North Carolina–Wilmington, will discuss this exciting new literacy, showcase the free materials developed under a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant, and share recent feedback from instructors who have integrated these pioneering instructional modules into their courses.

Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Visual Literacy in Higher Education, Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy, Net Generation Learner, Information Literacy and Fluency.

EDUCAUSE LIVE! PODCAST: Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation

gbayne — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:55:20 -0600

In this EDUCAUSE Live! podcast, join host, Steve Worona, for the topic "Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation". Steve's guest is Howard Besser, Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Master’s Degree Program at New York University.

A PowerPoint version of the slides from this presentation can be found here.

Increasingly, moving images are part of students' daily lives. Students record scenes they witness on their pocket digital movie cameras, download clips from free movie sites, and create remixes and mashups. Students recognize something that many libraries don't—that moving images are one of the richest ways of capturing events and that they tell us an immense amount about the history of their time, as well as current culture and styles.

Many academic libraries have collections of film and video that have been a low priority to organize, catalog, and preserve. One reason for the backlog is that this type of material requires different ways of thinking about handling, preservation, and browsing. In this talk, Howard Besser discusses why moving image material is important and why it must be treated differently than paper or still photography. He also discusses why traditional conservation approaches will not be effective for video or new media works and suggest that we adopt new conservation paradigms for dealing with them. Besser also points to more recent projects and studies that will likely help academic libraries better deal with the older material in their collections and collect the rich set of material being created today.

EDUCAUSE Live! theme music by Steven Host.

A conversation with Carl Berger

vidya — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:00 -0500

In the attached recording, Matt and I join Carl Berger in a wide ranging and entertaining conversation that we recorded on October 19th. This 25 minute interview address blogs, wikis, podcasting and myriad of other topics that might pique your interest.