I am presenting tomorrow at the Southern Regional Conference of the California Association of Independent Schools. My topic this year? Teaching Visual Literacy Through Digital Scrapbooking and Storytelling. (I like to weave my obsession with stamping and scrapbooking into all aspects of my life.) Over the next few days, I will share most of that presentation with you. If you would like to read the source material that I used, you can find links to it all on the LibGuide I created. Here are my opening slides, created in My Digital Studio, of course.

One of the main reasons that teaching visual literacy is important is that children believe everything they see. By learning the basics of design, they will see how to manipulate images, as well how to communicate effectively through them. This will open their eyes up to the messages other people are sending via imagery.