The webinar, "Painting A Just Picture", talked about how we as a English Language Arts teacher can use pictures in the classroom to enhance our teaching. They began the webinar with a series of pictures and asked the people attending to type real quick in the chat what they know about the picture. Many people wrote about how it made them feel, the time period they believed the pictured belonged to or just the literal things presented in the picture.
In the webinar we were introduced to "text graffiti"and how it can be used in the classroom to engage students in a particular lesson and "activate prior knowledge and make predictions". Jon, from the webinar says, "It is called text graffiti. It’s an effective way to engage a group of students in talking about a text, image, or work of art while keeping the discussion anchored to that text or image". Jon says the teacher can put the picture she wants the students to discuss on a blank poster board and have the students write around the picture things they notice or reflections. For example, the students can write about the historical content of the picture or how it connects to the text being read in class. Jon also said this can even be done with multiple pictures at the same time by making stations.
After listening to the webinar this is something I want to try in my future classroom someday. I love how students can analyze a picture or work of art just like they would a text. I like how I can do a interdisciplinary lesson with the art teacher and include art work that made during a specific ti e period I want to teach about or a particular point in history that relates to the text being read in school. I like how this is a wonderful way to include our visual learners and a way to make the lesson fun and engaging.
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