Instructor Resources

• DVL Conceptual Framework, working paper (9.14.05)
• The six virtual lectures given in late 2005:
• References and examples
• The Graphics Teaching Tool
• The "Make Your Own Business Card" assignment from the DVL course at Brown:

and student work at

Some interesting "culture" links that could lead to exercise ideas covering one or more of the DVL disciplines can be found at:

• Creation of the Marlboro Man http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/marlboroman/
• 2004 Presidential Election Maps, Cartograms, and Analyses See how statistical graphics can be highly misleading and politically incendiary. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
• Media manipulation in photos of toppling of Saddam Hussein statue. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm
• Robot troops http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4199935.stm
• Live Hunting by Internet Proxy http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4177186
• ARTiFACT, an education project aimed at middle schoolers. http://ldt.stanford.edu/~lwoo/portfolio.htm This master project from Lia Woo is an excellent, informed framework for bringing visual literacy into history courses. It involves vocabulary from art and design, the technology of photography (relevant to photoediting on the computer), the role of visual truth, and other visual literacy concepts. Check out the Overview and Facilitator’s guide at a minimum. Although designed for younger students, this project could be easily adapted for high school and 2-year and 4-year institutions.
• The Media Literacy Project at Syracuse http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/media/index.html
  • The whole Web site is good. Make sure to look at http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/media/howto.html — how to construct media literacy activities.