This wiki is for educators, parents, and students who have an interest in literacy and wish to collaborate and share ideas to increase literacy. I have created this site as part of 23 Things on a stick- Thing 10 as well as part of a fulfillment for a masters course in technology.
Please add ideas that you feel would be meaningful to the purpose of this wiki.
I have added this gadget of Monet art because I have always been drawn to beautiful images. Many of the children's books I choose have beautiful illustrations. I know that is not "best practice" but it is something that "sparked" my literacy as a child, as a teacher, and as a parent. I have also added quotes of the day because of their ability to be thought provoking which is one of the purposes of supporting literacy in children as well as guiding them to be lifelong learners as I hope many of us aspire to be ourselves.
Meg, Yea for Monet! But there are many other reasons your site is wonderful.
1. Awesome colors. Yellow is the color of intelligence. Kids given a test in a yellow room will score higher than equal kids taking the same test in a room of a different color.
2. Yellow fits perfectly with Impressionism. This yellow is a pure hue and it is a primary, which is important to the Impressionists.
3. It's so easy to use your page. I, myself, require a huge "user friendly" element.
I appreciate the support, revisions, and input . Tammy, thanks for the info on my color and art choices. I have an art major degree, but have realized I am more an appreciator than artist, although I do see myself as creative. Your comment about yellow makes me feel very smart as yellow is my favorite color because it is so cheery. I just found this video clip that I thought was useful I am gong to try to embed it here if I can not it will be posted on my vodpod picks on my blog 21st Century Literacy.
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An idea that could help teach visual literacy would be to add a pic of the Van Gogh "Sunflowers." Let people compare and contrast the two. We could all add our reactions to the two works, then you could post an article that explains how Van Gogh's work was a reaction to Monet's, because Van Gogh felt he was better at truly seeing the world the way a person should see it, even better than Monet.
This wiki is for educators, parents, and students who have an interest in literacy and wish to collaborate and share ideas to increase literacy. I have created this site as part of 23 Things on a stick- Thing 10 as well as part of a fulfillment for a masters course in technology.
Comments (8)
robertjesseman@mnsu.edu said
at 7:26 pm on Feb 7, 2009
Meg gets an "A" on her Wiki
jennifer_kellen@mnsu.edu said
at 8:07 pm on Feb 7, 2009
WOW! I am very impressed! LOOKS AWESOME!
Tammy.hoppe@mnsu.edu said
at 10:50 am on Feb 8, 2009
Meg, Yea for Monet! But there are many other reasons your site is wonderful.
1. Awesome colors. Yellow is the color of intelligence. Kids given a test in a yellow room will score higher than equal kids taking the same test in a room of a different color.
2. Yellow fits perfectly with Impressionism. This yellow is a pure hue and it is a primary, which is important to the Impressionists.
3. It's so easy to use your page. I, myself, require a huge "user friendly" element.
Way to go Meg.
Meg said
at 10:23 am on Feb 11, 2009
I appreciate the support, revisions, and input . Tammy, thanks for the info on my color and art choices. I have an art major degree, but have realized I am more an appreciator than artist, although I do see myself as creative. Your comment about yellow makes me feel very smart as yellow is my favorite color because it is so cheery. I just found this video clip that I thought was useful I am gong to try to embed it here if I can not it will be posted on my vodpod picks on my blog 21st Century Literacy.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=";http://www.youtube.com/v/CtyuZ5LElR8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=";http://www.youtube.com/v/CtyuZ5LElR8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Meg said
at 10:24 am on Feb 11, 2009
Well it looks like my embedding did not work I will try something else.
Meg said
at 10:30 am on Feb 11, 2009
I was able to embed it on the literacy and technology page. Yippee.
Tammy.hoppe@mnsu.edu said
at 11:03 pm on Feb 22, 2009
An idea that could help teach visual literacy would be to add a pic of the Van Gogh "Sunflowers." Let people compare and contrast the two. We could all add our reactions to the two works, then you could post an article that explains how Van Gogh's work was a reaction to Monet's, because Van Gogh felt he was better at truly seeing the world the way a person should see it, even better than Monet.
Meg said
at 10:50 am on Feb 25, 2009
Is there a copyright free version of the sunflowers? I like your idea.
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