The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary is a great resource for Art Teachers and a great resource for English Writing Teachers. Since its beginning in 2006 the Visual Dictionary collection has grown to over to over 5000 images and 3000 words.

• Think Writing Prompts- If a picture paints a thousand words, how many words would it take your students to describe these pictures ? Now get them to describe the images in 1/2 less words...can they do it in 1/4 less?.....
  
• Think Visual Imagery - If a picture paints a story, what story can your students tell that describes these pictures? Then have your students describe the images from different viewpoints- such as, describing the image from the 3rd person point of view....or have them mash-up 2 images and tell a new story about the combined images....
  
• Think Art- If a picture evokes emotions what emotions do these images evoke from your students? Then have your students look at colors in the images and explain what changing colors would do to that image.....

Those are just a few ideas for using this visual repository with your students...so why not contribute some of your photos you took this summer while on vacation to a worthy site?

>>Go Ahead- do it- Contribute.