Visual Resources for Teaching
Why and when should you use visual resources?
When used appropriately, images, illustrations and graphics can enhance student learning by:
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Illustrating concepts and providing visual memory cues. (Piktochart)Visualizations like infographics can help students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized.
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Guiding students to engage in cognitive processes. (Coggle)Mind mapping exercises are popular way to teach students the process of research. Mind maps can be used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas while organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
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Providing experience and teaching visual literacy (Slides.com)Creating digital stories and presentations can generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" students in today’s classrooms while learning to organize ideas, ask questions, express opinions, and construct narrative in an individual and meaningful way
Finding, Creating, and Sharing Images
A few resources across campus can help you create, edit, find, and share images. Places to contact are:
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The University of Chicago LibraryThe library subscribes to a wide collection of image databases and resources for your art research. Librarians are ready to help you navigate image databases and correctly attribute the images in your research and teaching.
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Logan Media CenterA joint effort of the Humanities Division, Information Technology Services (ITS), and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, the Logan Media Center (LMC) supports the arts at UChicago by providing AV equipment, production space, software, and technical training. The Logan Media Center loans equipment, and provides resources for developing, editing, and printing your digital and film photography.
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Visual Resources CenterThe Visual Resources Center helps instructors and their students find, create, and use images. The Visual Resources Center supports the Department of Art History and The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities through the expert provision and development of high-quality visual resources for the study and teaching of Art History and the Humanities.
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Copyright Information CenterFinding images is easy...but do you have the right to use them? Understanding your rights and the rights of the image creator can be complicated. The Library, in collaboration with ITServices, has created a web-based guide to understanding the basics of copyright and fair use.
Store Your Media
ITServices has partnered with Box and Google Drive for the campus' cloud storage needs. Most of the features of Google Drive and Box are very similar; we recommend you use the tool that is best for your team. The primary differences between Google Drive and Box are shown in the following table:
| Feature | Box | Google Drive |
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| Free Storage | Unlimited | 5GB |
| Real-time edition and collaboration | No | Yes |
| Extensive document preview formats | Yes | No |
| Ownership | Owner of the folder | Creator of the document |
| Groups | A group or an individual can own a folder | Only individuals own folders |
To learn more about campus cloud storage solutions, check out the Academic & Scholarly Technology Services blog post, "Box v.s. Google: Which to Use for My Class?"
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Find Images
Below are a series of library guides to help you find, use and attribute images in your work