Technology for the Core

Assignment Title: Week 2 Blog 3

Technology for the Core - Apps and Tools for the Literacy Curriculum Viewing Strand

Suter and Comer (2014) defines visual literacy as “…the comprehension and use of images, including the ability to think, learn, and represent ideas in visual form…images no longer just accompany or reinforce text…the opposite is true: text is added to reinforce the image.”  

Visual literacy is demonstrated by three distinct tools.  They are Web 2.0 tools, iPad apps and Infographic tools. Web 2.0 tools and iPad apps are self-explanatory. However, “infographic tools are just what their name implies; graphics & information” (Suter and Comer, 2014).

Web 2.0 Tools:

Animoto:

URL http://animoto.com

Photo Peach:

URL http://photopeach.com

Glogster:

URL http://edu.glogster.com

iPad Apps:

Faker$

URL https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faker$-the-wild-photo-app/id479536255?mt=8

Storehouse – Visual Storytelling:

URL https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storehouse-visual-storytelling/id791297521?mt=8

Infographic Tools:

Smore

URL https://www.smore.com/app

Piktochart

URL http://piktochart.com

In preparing for my Master's in Educational Technology, I have used some of these web tools, iPad and Infographic Tools.  Animoto is one of the tools that  used for my assignments,  I use the iPad and some of the apps, and the piktochart.   I have found most of these tools to be user friendly.

Suters, L. and Comer, M. (2014, October 28). Technology for the Core. Retrieved from Emerging Educational Technologies: http://www.emergingedtech.com/