Digital Imagery & Teaching Standards

As the deck to my blog details, words can paint pictures and evoke emotions. But as the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. As a writer, I tend to be partial to words, but you can't deny the emotional impact of a strong visual image. With the new technology available, students can apply visual images to their projects to work hand-in-hand with their written work. The teaching standard for English demands that students be able to express their comprehension of the content and to draw conclusions, nowhere does it say this has to be done in written form. They could absolutely do this using digital imagery to create a photo collage, a digital essay, a scrapbook, etc.