What role can imagery play in blogging?
I am an avid supporter of using imagery to uncover unique approaches to literacy, understanding, and conversation. Jerome Harste and Phyllis Whitten, two pioneers in this field, offer some unique approaches that I believe fit (or could fit) into weblogging. One of these ideas is sketch-to-stretch.
Sketch-to-Stretch (STS) asks readers to draw pictures that represent an understanding of key ideas in texts. It is an entirely abstract process that is NOT drawing a scene from a book. It involves looking at color, shapes, and objects as metaphors that naturally promote conversation and interpretation. I believe that photographs could work as well as personally drawn images.
What would this look like in a blog? How does this fit into education? What if students clipped a blog or article into their personal weblog. Students could then search flickr for photographs that they felt were metaphors for a key idea in the clipped article and insert it into the post. The critical aspect of doing this would be the comments (or conversation) that came from visitors reading and offering their personal interpretation of the connection between the publisher's picture and clip.
Could this work? I don't know. I would like to try it... I will in my next post.
Sketch-to-Stretch (STS) asks readers to draw pictures that represent an understanding of key ideas in texts. It is an entirely abstract process that is NOT drawing a scene from a book. It involves looking at color, shapes, and objects as metaphors that naturally promote conversation and interpretation. I believe that photographs could work as well as personally drawn images.
What would this look like in a blog? How does this fit into education? What if students clipped a blog or article into their personal weblog. Students could then search flickr for photographs that they felt were metaphors for a key idea in the clipped article and insert it into the post. The critical aspect of doing this would be the comments (or conversation) that came from visitors reading and offering their personal interpretation of the connection between the publisher's picture and clip.
Could this work? I don't know. I would like to try it... I will in my next post.
A light is something that can be used to shine and show where one has been; however, it is most meaningful to illuminate the unknown path ahead. Where can these tools take us, and most importantly, how high can we go?