Image-based Writing

"The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one"..."Pictures are less objects to be saved than messages to be diseeminated."

                                                              -- Susan Sontag 

Images are a great tool to use in the writing classroom.  They can inspire students to write, help them develop visual literacy skills, encourage them to ask questions and illustrate writing they have done.   

Students need not have access to cameras to do interesting visual work that develops critical and creative thinking, and visual and media literacies. There are thousands of images available online.  Check out the Tools section below to find some of the more popular among them.