Visual Literacy

Love teaching this topic and digital media in general! The students pick it up so quickly and gain the confidence to deconstruct how iconography and basic techniques can shape our impressions. Working out how posters and advertisements work really helps develop analysis skills.
The students enjoyed the following RSPCA advertisement and the way it engages an emotional response.

Goodbye StannersCircle ning

Well it was good while it lasted but the new Ning costing structure makes it non-viable to maintain my HSC resource site. Since the end of July is the deadline, I suggest that you visit as many nings as you can to see if there is anything of value. A brilliant extension site created by P.Heggaty is available on Romanticism. My site is more varied but has far less on it.

http://www.romanticism.ning.com/

http://www.stannerscircle.ning.com/

Preparing for my upcoming 'Hamlet' and 'Crime Writing' workshops beginning in Week 6. We are expected to get through so much in these demanding courses and then there is the development of student writing skills. A huge array of material is out there but it needs to be sifted and refined to fit the syllabus criteria. Here are a couple of sites that might be of use with 'Hamlet'.

http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm#revengeplays
https://hamletrg.wikispaces.com/ShakespeareanTragedy
http://hamletcommentary.weebly.com/

As the Trials close in, good luck to everyone trying to get through the last sections of the course before the marking sets in.

Barbara