Writing+with+Images

Not only will using the Media Arts motivate students to write, but they will also develop media literacy skills which will help them to become discerning media users!

Media Literacy
Royalty Free Step-by-Step Digital Camera Booklet (pdf)  Free Media: Alan Levine's CogDogRoo wiki page on finding copyright free media http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia
 * Image Analyze ([|Media-Awareness Network])
 * Shot Styles and Camera Practice
 * Editing Techniques ([|iPhoto tutorial]) [|Lunapic] Online photo editing

Descriptive Writing

 * Impact of synonyms, creating word lists of descriptors for an image.
 * Using thesaurus (free [|online visual thesaurus (**Visuwords**)] )
 * Text - image relationship. How does the image support the message in the text. The text does not have to describe the image.
 * Placing of text. Careful when placing text that it is not over top of someone's face, or blocks the main subject.
 * **Wordle**. A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site. []

ComicLife
Tutorials & Templates: http://www.countrymeadows.district96.k12.il.us/Comic_Life_site/CLindex.html

For a further look into the realm of comic books:

 * Comics in the Classroom! http://www.teachingcomics.org/
 * Comics in Education http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/
 * Comics in Education Web Resources http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/web.html
 * Reading Online: New Literacies http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/jaal/11-02_column/
 * National Association of Comics Art Educators http://www.teachingcomics.org/

Lesson Resources:

 * Media-Awareness Canada: []
 * TV & Me: []
 * PBS Teachers: []
 * Apple Learning. Scroll down the page to Curriculum Resources []
 * Adobe Digital Kids. Lesson ideas. []
 * Assessing Media Projects: []
 * Media Lit. Lessons - 5 Key questions:

Media Resources:

 * Jump Page of Media Literacy links: []
 * Media Literacy for the 21st Century (2nd ed.) booklet (87 page guide): [|www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk/01a_mlkorientation_rev2.pdf]
 * Media Education: Make it happen: [| http://www.mediaeducationweek.ca/101_download.htm]

Items for Classroom:

 * * Dove: Onslaught commercial (play using [|quietube]) [] ||
 * < * Shot Examples: || [[file:shot_examples.pdf]] ||
 * < * Shot Style (blank form) || [[file:Shot_style.pdf]] ||
 * < * How to place text on to an image || [[file:wtg0nPhoto 2.pdf]] ||