Sharing+Visual+Images

//[|Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding a New Angle of Repose]//
Wagner, Gretchen. "Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding a New Angle of Repose." //EDUCAUSE Review//, vol. 42, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 84–105.

Digital images and copyright law. Discussion of current practices and fair use. Special focus on ARTstor, a library of digital images with copyright approval, available on a subscription basis for institutions and individuals. []

// [|Integrating Digital Images into the Art and Art History Curriculum] //
 Pitt, Sharon; Updike, Christina; and Guthrie, Miriam. " Integrating Digital Images into the Art and Art History Curriculum." //Educause Quarterly//, no.2 (2002): 38-44.  The story of the creation of a digital image database at James Madison University, the Madison Digital Image Database, or MDID. Particularly interesting are the student surveys conducted in 1999, 2000 and 2001. A majority of the respondents felt that presentation of digital images in the classroom and digital access to course material had a positive effect on learning course content, and on their success in the course. A link to their wiki: []

//The role of visual representation in the assessment of learning//
Bustle, L.S. "The role of visual representation in the assessment of learning.//" Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy //, 47 (2004): 416–423.

An overview of how and why three teachers (not just art) use visual images. Argues for increased use of visual imagery in the classroom, specifically in light of the increased saturation of everyday life by visual images mostly relating to consumerism. Cites transmediation as a powerful learning and assessment tool. Transmediation occurs when meanings formed in one communication system are recast in the context and expression planes of a new sign system; for example, we take something we know verbally and recast it in art. In the examples given, visual images are used as processing tools for understanding complex literary relationships, as visual representations of our world, and as a way to internalize new information.

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