JBFC Summer Teachers Institute 2013: Strand B:Reading the Screen

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and
recognizes before it can speak.

-John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Welcome!

During our session we will be exploring the tools visual
storytellers use and how they can help enhance the ELA classroom. We will begin
by understanding how to "read the frame" and how images work together. Then we
will look at how elements of storytelling differ in film and literature and
start to translate written text to visual text. And of course we will
brainstorm how to bring this back into the classroom. We'll be screening clips, a short film and a feature as
well as doing some "hands on" activities to help our understanding of visual
text.

On Tuesday we¹ll also be joined by Special Guest
Esmeralda Santiago, who is excited to talk with us about how we
can help our students to be visual readers and support them as creators.

I'm looking forward to working with all of you.

-Brady

Brady J. Shoemaker, a certified K12 arts educator with a MA in Art
Education, taught computer art on the high school level in Pennsylvania and
worked on several films before joining the JBFC faculty. Brady has developed
the JBFC's Digital Storytelling programs, which encompassed a course for
English language learners at Westchester Community College, a course for adults
and teens at the Media Arts Lab, and a collaboration with a social studies
class at Fox Lane High School. In addition, he teaches and mentors the Creators'
Co-op high school students and more.