Thank you Donna for sharing this incredibly powerful website! I think the photos and site have tremendous instructional potential. 
My initial reaction was one of speechlessness. So,  maybe an activity could focus on vocabulary development, especially fact and opinion. For example, students can try to factually describe (spoken or written) a photo or series of photos then describe (spoken or written) their emotional or cognitive reactions to what is depicted. Another activity could focus on concepts of scale.Students (individuals, pairs, or small groups) could be given disposable cameras (or share a program-owned digital camera) to create a photo essay to share with others.Students could observe their own environments (class, home, work) and develop analogies to similar situations in their lives.I think this site should not be limited to use in any type of adult education classroom or with a particular group of students; its instructional power is limitless and I am anxious to hear others' ideas!  Priscilla Carman



On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:13:54 -0400  The Workplace Literacy Discussion List  wrote: 










Workplace colleague


Did you ever run across a website that was so powerful that
you just had to figure out a way to use it in your instruction?  I’ve
run across such a site.  It’s the photography of Chris Jordan at http://www.chrisjordan.com . Click on
the selection of pictures called “Running the Numbers: An American
Self-Portrait” and scroll down through.




I’d like some help in figuring out ways that these
pictures could be used in our classes.  I think they could be used in many
kinds of ways as part of an awareness of environmental issues, statistics, scale,
etc.  Are they useful in workplace literacy, or more useful in some other
area of literacy?  Take a look and see what you think.  Share your
ideas with the discussion list.  Thanks!
 



Donna



 



Donna Brian



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Penn State University

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