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Buck-Coleman, Audra – Visible Language, 2010
Graphic design's messages can reach across streets and across the globe; they can bring together countries, communities and strangers for a common cause; they can also serve to divide otherwise amenable neighbors. Design students must fully understand this potential reach and thus the responsibility they have to create tolerant, informed messages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Cultural Pluralism
Costello, Bill; Kolodziej, Nancy J. – Middle School Journal (J1), 2006
The use of picture books as supplementary material for middle level classrooms is becoming more common. Picture books are being created specifically to address the needs and interests of middle school students. Society is becoming more visually oriented and the visual format of picture books appeals to adolescents, who today are exposed to various…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Educational Objectives, Teaching Guides, Picture Books
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Bruning, Merribeth J. – TechTrends, 1992
Video Information Systems (VIS) is fiber optics network that connects campus classrooms to VIS central library. Remotely controlled by instructors, VIS incorporates use of number of audiovisual materials and can be used in cross-cultural training in which visual aids assist in showing cultural differences. VIS assists in education of future…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Technology
Baca, Judy Clark, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This book of readings consists of selected papers presented under five topics: (1) Research and Theory--18 papers including research on visual effects on attitude and cognition, students of different field dependence levels, modern and postmodern design on reader perceptions of news, effects of gray shades, short-term memory capacity differences,…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creativity