• All core content teachers are responsible for authentically embedding technology within their curriculum.

• Design and layout of information influence effective communication
• Audience and purpose behind your communication affect how and what you communicate.
• Different information mediums require different strategies when organizing information and communicating effectively.
• Reflection is an important component to developing communication skills.

• How can we effectively and practically authentically embed technology, specifically visual literacy strategies, within our curricular areas?

• How can we, as teachers, utilize effective visual literacy strategies communicate curricular concepts to students?
• How can we engage our students in providing opportunities to share their learning with an authentic audience?

Goal: Utilize your visual literacy skills to either:

• Create a visual presentation to use in your class to help teach a lesson.

• Develop a unit plan to actively engage students in using visual literacy to demonstrate their learning (include a model "project" for what your students should produce).

Role: You are a teacher working on embedding technology standards into your core curriculum area.

Audience: Your students.

Situation: You may work in small groups, partners or individuals.

Product: Your unit will be published as a page in this wiki (see instructions below for how to create your project page). You will reflect on the experience of designing this unit/presentation on your blog.

Practical resources you will need (from previous weeks):

• Nets for Students and Teachers

• Understanding by Design Introduction

• Reinventing Project-Based Learning (Handout)

• [New] Bloom's Taxonomy Digitally by Andrew Churches (Tech & Learning) Additional Recommended Reading

• Unit Design Template

***interpret — tell meaningful stories, offer apt translations, provide a revealing historical or personal dimension to ideas and events; make subjects personal or accessible through images, anecdotes, analogies, and models

Apply: GRASPS task - develop a unit or presentation utilizing understanding gained during the course. (F2F: Oct 14)

have perspective: discuss in small groups a selection of the course readings. Use the Final Word protocol to focus discussion. (F2F: Sept 26)

***empathize — find value in what others might find odd, alien, or implausible; perceive sensitively on the basis of prior indirect experience

Have self-knowledge: complete reflective blog posts throughout the course. (Weekly)

How to Create your Project Page: