Visual+Literacy

Sean Mundt EDT 3010 9-17-10 Visual Literacy Assignment After looking at the visual that was provided I concluded that it was somewhat easy and hard to understand. I don’t clearly think the topic is displayed as well but the message of what it is trying to expose it. The basis of it is comparing how much chicken and beef is produced and eaten in America today. It was kind of gross to think about how high thee numbers are.

The five instructional functions are, decorative, representative, organizational, interpretive, and transformative. The biggest instructional functions the picture is using is really decorative, organizational, and interpretive. The decoration of the visual is well displayed. It is showing exactly what is being portrayed and giving you an idea of what it is that they are using. For example when you see the word chicken in the visual they give you a picture of a chicken. Also the visual is somewhat realistic and colorful. The organizational value of the visual is very descriptive. It gives you a broad understanding of how you can understand it. It gives pictures, Results, and calculations to help show what it is trying to interpret. The last part that I saw was interpretive. I think that picture is very easy to understand. It shows factual information of what Americans are doing every day and how much of these products are being created and consumed in a day and even seconds. It gives number results for all categories that it is trying to explain.

Coming to Perceptions, actions, and tools; being PAT I don’t think that there were any perceptions or actions. Hierarchy wasn’t really shown. Hierarchy being that there is an arrangement of items in the visual. I don’t think there is at all. There all the same and there mixed up as well. There were no actions that I could conclude either. I did not see any contrasting or repetitiveness or alignment. There were some unique tools. The visual gave great color and shape (being the pictures is provided) and left room for sufficient amount of spacing.

In conclusion I thought that the picture was okay. It could give a better indication of what it was trying to explain instead of just over proteined. It’s not really giving you a clue as to what it is trying to get across. It is only displaying factual information to inform you of certain things. A lot of it just seemed to be confusing.


 * Reflection:**


 * I thought this assignment was somewhat difficult. I think that it was hard to understand at times and really see the clear picture. Its showed us five instructional functions on how we were to depict a picture. Learning about some of these functions showed us how to see the picture in many areas. I think bringing this idea about in the classroom could be a good idea and bad idea. Having visuals in your classroom can help many students understand more clearly of what your trying to teach. I know that for myself that I am a visual learner and seeing pictures when learning something really helps me. Although this could be a great tool in the classroom some students do not learn this way. Many students don't see that visuals help them learn as much. Some learn by just reading straigh up textbooks and what not. I would probably use this illustration in my classroom for the students who learn visually. I think it could really benefit the students that do learn this way. For those who dont, I would find alternate resources to help them as well.**