Finding Images & Video
Lesley Library's Visual Media Guide has links to dozens of art databases, image banks, and streaming video collections! Here are a few quick links:
- PexelsThe images on this site are under a Creative Commons 0 license, which means you can modify and publish them without permission
- ArtstorDatabase of art with high-quality images you can zoom into, cite, and download
- KanopyStreaming videos, including full length documentaries and TV shows
- New York Times Public DomainA collection of New York Times images now in the public domain
Citing Visual Media
From historic paintings to clipart you find online, find out how to cite in both APA and MLA from this Lesley Library Visual Media Guide
Can I Use It? Copyright, Fair Use, Public Domain
While you and your students may use images without permission for use in the classroom, it's important that anything published publicly only uses images you have permission for! This might mean finding an image that's in the public domain (expired copyright), asking an artist for permission to use their work, or using an image that outlines the legal uses of it through a Creative Commons license.
Check out some frequently asked questions in the Lesley Library Visual Media Guide
Data Visualization
- Information is BeautifulTo get a sense of how creative you can get with data visualization, browse this website!
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7 Infographic ToolsBuffer's list of 7 easy tools for creating infographics
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Flowchart & Diagram MakerOnline tool for creating flowcharts and diagrams
Cool Infographics by
Research shows that visual information is more quickly and easily understood, and much more likely to be remembered. This innovative book presents the design process and the best software tools for creating infographics that communicate. Including a special section on how to construct the increasingly popular infographic resume, the book offers graphic designers, marketers, and business professionals vital information on the most effective ways to present data.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781118582282Publication Date: 2013
Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a great way to organize your thoughts visually. There are digital tools you can use (check out this list of 5) but it's usually more effective to create one on paper by hand. They can be used for:
Studying: Map a textbook chapter or lecture notes to better understand, remember, and make connections
Writing Papers: Map out your thoughts to generate a topic or thesis question, outline your supporting research, and find connections to help you with transitions
Presentations: Present information visually, so that the audience can see how your ideas are organized and connected
See mind mapping in action:
Studio Critique
Art school faculty are experienced in teaching visual literacy, and so they can offer great ideas for classroom techniques and methods. The studio critique is a great way to strengthen the visual competencies you're teaching, and it can be used outside of the studio, in any discipline! Check out these resources.
- Teaching Through Critique: An Extra-Disciplinary ApproachJohanna Inman, MFA Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Temple University and is from the February 2015 issue, Volume 24, Number 2, of the National Teaching and Learning Forum
- Studio Critiques of Student Art: As They Are, as They Could Be With MentoringIN THE MULTIPLE VOICES OF ART INSTRUCTORS and students in their classes,
this article explores the thoughts and feelings of instructors and students when
students display their work for critical response. Includes quotes from students about their experiences with the studio critique.
Studio Thinking 2 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0807754358Publication Date: 2013-06-14The first edition of this bestseller was featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. This expanded edition features new material, including: the addition of Exhibitions as a fourth Studio Structure for Learning (along with Demonstration-Lecture, Students-at-Work, and Critique); explanation and examples of the dispositional elements of each Habit, including skill, alertness (noticing appropriate times to put skills to use), and inclination (the drive or motivation to employ skills); a chart aligning Habits to the English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core; descriptions of how the Framework has been used inside and outside of schools in curriculum planning, teaching, and assessment across arts and non-arts disciplines; and a full-colour insert with new examples of student art. Studio Thinking 2 will help advocates explain arts education to policymakers, help art teachers develop and refine their teaching and assessment practices, and assist educators in other disciplines to learn from existing practices in arts education.
Visual Notetaking
Visual noting/sketch noting helps students process and remember information more effectively. Encourage your students to use these techniques during your lectures!
The Sketchnote Handbook by ISBN: 0321857895Publication Date: 2012This gorgeous, fully illustrated handbook tells the story of sketchnotes--why and how you can use them to capture your thinking visually, remember key information more clearly, and share what you've captured with others. Author Mike Rohde shows you how to incorporate sketchnoting techniques into your note-taking process--regardless of your artistic abilities--to help you better process the information that you are hearing and seeing through drawing, and to actually have fun taking notes. The Sketchnote Handbook explains and illustrates practical sketchnote techniques for taking visual notes at your own pace as well as in real time during meetings and events. Rohde also addresses most people's fear of drawing by showing, step-by-step, how to quickly draw people, faces, type, and simple objects for effective and fast sketchnoting. The book looks like a peek into the author's private sketchnote journal, but it functions like a beginner's guide to sketchnoting with easy-to-follow instructions for drawing out your notes that will leave you itching to attend a meeting just so you can draw about it.
Sketchbooks
Students across disciplines can benefit from keeping sketchbooks.
- The Creative Benefits of Keeping a SketchbookAn example of how architecture students benefitted from keeping sketchbooks.
- Sketching as a Science ToolGreat article about the benefits of keeping a sketchbook for scientists
Sketchbooks are also a great way to teach art history students. Encourage them to search Artstor and online for the sketchbooks of their favorite artists!