Visual Literacy Panel at ALA 2011

Below are photos from the Visual Literacy Panel at ALA 2011 in New Orleans. Many thanks to all the presenters!

Visual Literacy Standards program at ALA Annual 2011 in New Orleans

Please join us for ACRL/IRIG’s Visual Literacy Standards program at ALA Annual 2011 in New Orleans!

Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21st century learners

Visual literacy experts and practitioners will introduce a working draft of the draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, and discuss implementation strategies for higher education. Speakers will be describing their experiences testing implementation of the draft Standards, and will provide ideas for Standards-based activities, learning objects, and assessment.

Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Place: Convention Center Room 339

Track: User Services
Subtrack: Literacy & Learning

Speakers:
Virginia Allison and Holly Tomren, University of California, Irvine
Jodi Kearns and Lizette Royer, University of Akron
Emily Nelson Decker, University of Georgia
Robin Miller, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Shilpa Rele and Gilda Santana, University of Miami
Joanna Burgess, Reed College (moderator)

Sponsor: ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG)
Co-sponsors (name-only): Arts Section, Women and Gender Studies Section, Instruction Section

ACRL/IRIG ALA Program planning committee: Joanna Burgess (co-chair), Ann Medaille, Kaila Bussert, Denise Hattwig (co-chair)

Handouts available on the IRIG website

speakers announced – ALA 2011 visual literacy standards panel session

We’re pleased to announce the speakers for our ALA 2011 panel session in New Orleans, “Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21st century learners.”

Speakers:
Virginia Allison and Holly Tomren, University of California, Irvine
Jodi Kearns and Lizette Royer, University of Akron
Emily Nelson Decker, University of Georgia
Robin Miller, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Shilpa Rele and Gilda Santana, University of Miami
Joanna Burgess, Reed College (moderator)

Speakers will be describing their experiences testing implementation of the draft Standards, and will provide ideas for activities, learning objects, and assessment related to the draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

ACRL/IRIG ALA Program planning committee: Joanna Burgess (co-chair), Ann Medaille, Kaila Bussert, Denise Hattwig (co-chair)

Standards presentation at ACRL

If you missed the visual literacy standards presentation at ACRL, here is a copy of the slides: VisualLiteracy_ACRL2011_MedailleHattwig. There’s also a summary of the whole panel session (Projecting an Image: A Field Guide to Visual Literacy) on the virtual conference site. We had a full house – thank you to everyone who attended, and thank you to Paul Glassman for organizing and inviting us.

VL Standards at ACRL in Philadelphia

Visual Literacy Standards Task Force members will be speaking about the draft Standards at ACRL as part of the panel, “Projecting an Image: A Field Guide to Visual Literacy.” Hope to see you there!

Event: Projecting an Image: A Field Guide to Visual Literacy, panel session
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Place: Room 107 a/b, Pennsylvania Convention Center

VL Standards at ARLIS + VRA

Will you be attending the ARLIS + VRA joint conference in Minneapolis this week? The ARLIS Academic Libraries Division will be discussing the draft Standards, led by Patti Kosco Cossard, VL Standards Advisory Group. If you’re at the conference, this would be a great way to provide feedback!

Event: ARLIS Academic Libraries Division meeting
Date: Sunday, March 27
Time: 11:15-12:15
Place: Marquette I-II

Update!

The Standards are also on the agenda for discussion at the ARLIS Reference and Information Services (RISS) meeting, with Moderator Virginia Allison and Co-Moderator Amy Ballmer.

Event: ARLIS Reference and Information Services (RISS) meeting
Date: Sunday, March 27
Time: 12:30-1:30
Place: Marquette III

Call for proposals – ALA 2011 Presentation and Visual Literacy Standards Implementation

Do you work with students on projects involving images and visual media? Do you teach image research, analysis, evaluation, or citation skills, or are you looking for ways to incorporate visual literacy instruction into the curriculum? We would like to hear from you!

The ACRL/IRIG visual Literacy Standards Task Force has recently released draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. We are looking for educators interested in testing implementation of parts of the draft Standards, then presenting about the experience at ALA 2011 in New Orleans. We are seeking proposals that outline your ideas for implementing parts of the Standards, and using the Standards as tools for pursuing visual literacy with college and university students. We welcome all proposals from individuals or teams, and especially encourage submissions from librarians, faculty, archivists, curators, educational technologists, visual resources professionals, and others with experience working with students and visual materials in higher education.

Proposals should include:

• Your name, title, and institution
• A brief statement about your interest or experience with visual literacy
• The Standard(s) or Performance Indicator(s) from the draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education you would like to implement
• A general description of the student population and course, assignment, or setting where you plan to incorporate visual literacy learning outcomes from the draft Standards
• Some of your ideas for implementation strategies, possibly including ideas for learning objects or instructional materials, classroom activities, online resources, or assessment methods

Proposal Deadline: Friday, March 18, 2011

Send proposals to: Joanna Burgess at burgessj@reed.edu

Accepted participants will:

• Test implementation of one or more Performance Indicator(s) from the draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
• Develop and use one or more learning objects (worksheet, tutorial, web page, activity, etc) in the implementation process
• Assess student learning based on the Performance Indicator(s) and associated Learning Outcomes selected for implementation
• Reflect on successes and challenges of the implementation process
• Discuss your experiences with the ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards Task Force and provide feedback on the draft Standards
• Give a 10-minute presentation describing your experiences in the ALA Annual 2011 session “Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21^st century learners” in New Orleans on Sunday, June 26, 2011, including a handout with the learning object or supporting materials and the assessment method used

Ideas for possible Performance Indicators to implement (see the draft Standards document for associated Learning Outcomes and more ideas):

The visually literate student…

• identifies a variety of image sources, materials, and types (Standard One, Performance Indicator 2)
• conducts effective image searches (Standard Two, Performance Indicator 2)
• situates an image in its cultural, social, and historical contexts (Standard Three, Performance Indicator 2)
• evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of images as visual communications (Standard Four, Performance Indicator 2)
• uses technology effectively to work with images (Standard Five, Performance Indicator 2)
• produces images for a range of projects and scholarly uses (Standard Six, Performance Indicator 1)
• understands many of the ethical, legal, social, and economic issues surrounding images and visual media (Standard Seven, Performance Indicator 1)

Please contact Joanna Burgess (burgessj@reed.edu) or Denise Hattwig (dhattwig@uw.edu) with any questions.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

visual literacy standards program at ALA Annual 2011

The ACRL Image Resources Interest Group is sponsoring a program at ALA Annual 2011 in New Orleans devoted to the new draft Standards. Program information as follows:

“Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21st century learners”

Visual literacy experts and practitioners will introduce a working draft of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards, and discuss implementation strategies for higher education.

Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Track: User Services
Subtrack: Literacy & Learning

Speakers: TBA

Sponsor: Image Resources Interest Group
Co-sponsors (name-only): Arts Section, Women and Gender Studies Section, Instruction Section

VLTF open meeting – thank you!

Thank you very much to the 50+ people who attended and participated in the VLTF virtual open meeting last week! Your comments, questions, and observations were interesting and helpful. Thank you, too, for your patience with the meeting technology; it was difficult to have a free-flowing but organized discussion using chat, but the virtual meeting did allow more people to participate.

Please continue the discussion here, and take advantage of the open comment period for the draft Standards (now through March31) by posting comments here or emailing dhattwig@uw.edu.

Thank you again!

meeting notes,   meeting powerpoint

agenda – VLTF virtual open meeting (ALA Midwinter 2011)

Following is the agenda for the Visual Literacy Standards Task Force virtual open meeting for ALA Midwinter 2011.

Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm PST/2:30-4:00 EST (note:  The time on ilink is not the start time for this meeting.)
Place: https://ala.ilinc.com/perl/ilinc/lms/event.pl?div_view=reg&event_user_id
(If you register in advance at this link, you’ll get an email about an hour before the meeting with a link to join the meeting. You can also use the above link to directly join the meeting without registering – just select the “Join” tab above the list of meetings, then select the VLTF meeting.)

Topic: open discussion of new draft ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Draft)

Agenda:
Introductions
Standards development process
Open Discussion
– Standards document
– Implementation and assessment
Conclusions

Please bring your questions or comments about the Standards draft, and your ideas for implementation. We’ll mostly be using the text chat feature, but if you have a headset and would like to speak, please feel welcome.

We’re looking forward to the meeting and your participation!