Visual Literacy and Visualization

Visual literacy is part of the art of communication and design. When designing for any learning event, the ability to communicate the content and interpret it are vital to understanding.

The following links will provide a start for visual literacy study.


http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

There are more maps here:

http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm
including the page by Chris the extracts each one with a show/hide
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql

and the papers:
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/articles.htm


As long as you are looking at visual lit, there is an ivla
http://www.ivla.org/

http://www.ivla.org/resources.htm
which has a taxonomy and bibliography listed


http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf

http://www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html

http://trc.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=823

lots here:
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/edres/pathfinders/atos/

http://www.jakesonline.org/visual.htm
http://www.jakesonline.org/collections.htm

http://suelebeau.com/visualliteracy.html


http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/visual.html

http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-1/visual.htm

Visual Literacy and Visualization

The Visual Literacy org site has a periodic table of visualization methods:
(use Mouseover)

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Shown single method by using a show/hide link done by Chris Wallace:
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql

by category
http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/index.xql


Other visual literacy maps
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm

Visual Literacy Papers
http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/articles.htm