Visual Rhetoric Resources

This wiki page is a resource that you can use when designing visual rhetoric assignments and activities and when assessing visual rhetoric assignments. There is also a section of materials that you can provide for your students who may be creating visuals for assignments and activities. I have also enclosed here a summary of the findings from your WRTG 2010 survey you all completed. Thank you for participating, this data was used to develop your colloquium session and will guide planning for the VITL (Visual, Information and Technological Literacy Taskforce).

Colloquium Materials Developed by Freddie Harris-Ramsey

Resources for your Students

Principles of Design & Examples

Marriott Library E book on designing PowerPoint presentations - the Non-Designers Presentation Book
Principles of Design
Four Principles of Conceptual Presentation Design (from the Non-Designers Handbook)
Gestalt Principles of Design (with animations)
Google images examples you can use for examples of brochure designs | flyer designs | advocacy ads | poster designs | web designs | Newsletter designs | PowerPoint samples | designing with type |
Simple Concepts for Web Design
Webpages that suck website
How to design an event flyer that gets attention
Wikipedia Design Elements and Principles Site
Visual Design Basics: Creating Effective Handouts, Handouts and Brochures
100 great resources for design creativity

Software Tutorials & Templates

Microsoft Office Flyer Templates | Brochure Templates | Poster Templates | Additional PowerPoint Templates | Charts & Diagrams Templates |

Charts & Diagrams in Excel

Pointers on creating charts

Images Websites
Accessed through the Marriott Library

Digital Collections http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/index.php (see all the links down the left to collections of photos and images)
ARTstor http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html
Marriott Library Database Search Databases with Graphics

Accessed through the Eccles Library

Digital Collections & Multimedia
National Library of Medicine Website Digital Collections

Other Websites

Searching for images, videos, etc Searching through Creative Commons Library Guide
First Microsoft has a huge collection of images http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/?CTT=97 – both photos, clip art and animations that you can download It will download images to your computer and you can then just add them to your slides
If you go to Google and click on images instead of web in the top left of the screen you will see only images. Here is the link http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi you can type in any word and see images related to that. You can use copyrighted images if you are only using them in class. If you post publicly then you can limit your search to only images that are copyright free.
Government images http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
American Memory images http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html a lot of history images
New York Public Library http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
The Morgue File http://www.morguefile.com/
Flicker Commons http://www.flickr.com/ set up a free account and use the advanced search to search for creative commons free images Flicker IMages by searching on a world map http://www.flickr.com/map/
Stock Exchange http://www.sxc.hu/
Library of Congresshttp://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
Merlot HE Database - images search

Compilations of Resources from Other Colleges and Universities

Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching website for Visual Thinking Resources
University of Tennessee at Knoxville University Visual Learning Resources
Maricopa Community College DVL (Digital Visual Literacy) Website (They got an NSF grant to develop DVL modules)

Literature on Visual Learning Topics

Visual Rhetoric

OWL Visual Rhetoric Overview | OWL Visual Analysis |
Stanford University Visual Rhetoric Course (examples, assignments, links to resources)
Guide to teaching visual rhetoric
Assignment Example for Visual Rhetorical Analysis
Visual Rhetoric Bibliography
Enculturation 3.2 Journal on visual rhetoric

Visual Literacy

Visual Thinking

Art, Design and Visual Thinking Online Textbook
VizThink website

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