{"id":690,"date":"2025-02-11T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/?p=690"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:50:10","slug":"oe-4-digital-visuals-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Digital Visuals in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/?page_id=96\">Back to the Repository content<\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left has-black-color has-base-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-627e99e50a3a6193bdccf00b78452e40\" style=\"border-radius: 29px;font-size: 1.2em;background-color: #f0f0f0;padding: 5px\">\r\n<blockquote>They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Most teachers nowadays use digital images to help students with different abilities understand and remember better. What are the best ways to choose and use various visuals? And importantly, how do we respect authorship and avoid breaking copyright laws when using and sharing visuals for learning?<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/storyset.com\/people\">People illustrations by Storyset<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2145\" src=\"http:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"illustration\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6300\/2025\/02\/Architect-amico.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>Visual stimuli capture learners\u2019 attention and provide emotional appeal, helping make connections and understand concepts better. Through images, diagrams, and infographics, learners can grasp and remember key points more effectively. Digital visuals encompass a wide range of different types: dynamic video animations and static graphic illustrations, diagrams, infographics, interactive visuals.<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nIt\u2019s crucial to respect authorship and copyright laws when using or creating digital visuals, ensuring proper attribution and adherence to licensing requirements.<\/div>\r\n<h3>Best Practices<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Consistency<\/strong>: Maintain a consistent style and format throughout your visuals. Use high-quality images and clear, legible text. Avoid clutter and unnecessary details.<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p><strong>Attribution<\/strong>: Every digital object one creates is considered to be copyrighted to the author and protected by copyright law unless otherwise specified. You can assign a CC license to your digital object, thus openly sharing it with everyone under the attribution that you specify. Properly attribute all visuals to their original creators, following the specific licensing requirements. Reuse only non-copyrighted images. Contact your librarian to find out the details about educational use, which permits limited use of copyrighted content for educational purposes.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p><strong>Privacy<\/strong>: Do not share without permission. Ensure that any images of people used in your materials have the necessary permissions and do not violate privacy rights.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p><strong>Accessibility:<\/strong> Use alt text for images and ensure color contrast is sufficient, to comply with the accessibility standards. Add subtitles or closed captions to videos, or, attach a text file with the audio transcription. Ensure that all visual content is accessible to visually impaired learners. This includes providing detailed alt text descriptions for images, diagrams, and infographics. For dynamic content like videos and animations, include audio descriptions that narrate the visual elements. Additionally, ensure that interactive visuals are navigable using screen readers and other assistive technologies.<\/p>\r\n<p>This activity invites you to explore the ethical and legal considerations of using digital visuals in teaching. By analyzing existing resources and reflecting on your own practices, you\u2019ll develop skills to ensure compliance with copyright laws, proper attribution, privacy, and accessibility.<\/p>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h2>Learning Activity: Ethical and Legal Use of Digital Visuals in Teaching<\/h2>\r\n<p>This activity invites you to explore the ethical and legal considerations of using digital visuals in teaching. By analyzing existing resources and reflecting on your own practices, you\u2019ll develop skills to ensure compliance with copyright laws, proper attribution, privacy, and accessibility.<\/p>\r\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background-color: #d3d3d3;padding: 20px\"><strong>Practice:<\/strong>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Option 1. Reuse Digital Visuals<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>1.1. Select<\/strong> a digital visual resource relevant to your subject area or a field of interest. This could be an image, infographic, video, or interactive visual.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>1.2. Analyze <\/strong>the visual for consistency, attribution, privacy and accessibility.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>1.3. Share the visual\u00a0<\/strong>and include the authorship information (names and organizations), the source (URL and publications), attribution (Creative Commons type of sharing), add the text which is to be used as alt description to make a digital visual object accessible.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Option 2. Create Your Own Visual<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2.1. Create<\/strong> a digital infographic, diagram, an image, or interactive visual tailored to your teaching needs.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2.2. Apply the standards <\/strong>of consistency, attribution, privacy and accessibility to your visual display.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>Your digital creation is automatically copyrighted, unless you assign and display CC license to your visual. Ensure your visual is accessible.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2.3. Share your visual and write <\/strong>a brief description to accompany your creation. Submit it using the form below. Add your message as a comment to this page.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h3>Resources:<\/h3>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ccsearch.creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons image search<\/a> is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/storyset.com\/people\">https:\/\/storyset.com\/people\u00a0<\/a> Vectorgraphic type illustrations to download free (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/legal\/privacy\">https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/legal\/privacy<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/\">Unsplash<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 photos that are free to use, no permission required but attribution appreciated<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/\">Pexels<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 stock photos that are free to use, attribution is not required, adaptation is permitted<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/\">The Noun Project<\/a> \u2013 CC licensed icons<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/h5p.org\/content-types-and-applications\">Examples and Downloads | H5P<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/storyset.com\/people\">https:\/\/storyset.com\/people<\/a> Freepic company &#8211; customizable illustrations: education, technology, medical, people, multi-purpose. Include Illustration attribution: <a href=\"https:\/\/storyset.com\/people\">People illustrations by Storyset<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tabou.opened.ca\/?page_id=96\">Back to the Repository content<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the Repository content \u00a0 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Most teachers nowadays use digital images to help students with different abilities understand and remember better. What are the best ways to choose and use various visuals? 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