Anticipation for the Visual Literacy Course in the
COETAIL program has been both eager and anxious for me. Visual literacy, graphic design, and the language and tools that they use are arguably my weakest skills.
To date, I've done literally nothing to spruce up the appearance of
Dal Segno al Coda. My own blog of teaching and learning,
Symphony of Ideas, is not a terrible eyesore only due to the generosity, patience, and talent of my wife,
Yuka. Thank goodness
Tumblr has decent default designs! Finally, I have procrastinated purchasing my own domain and establishing a landing site for myself for a myriad of reasons which are really probably just excuses because, after all, I think I'm just afraid to
design it.
Time to face the music
Fact is, I need to grow. I'm a
composer, or as Aaron Copland would say, an 'inventor of music'. Need counterpoint for a bebop melody? I'm on it. Want to reharmonize that pop song? No problem! Horn backgrounds for a power ballad? I'll rock it.
String Quartet? Working on it. I'm comfortable creating with sounds.
I am illiterate
Unfortunately, according to one of my heroes, George Lucas, in an interview with James Daly for Edutopia,
Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education, I am illiterate! This is a multimedia era, but I am a monomedia creator.
In this course on Visual Literacy, I'll be bumbling along an unfamiliar road. Coincidentally, an early topic in the
Deeper Learning MOOC is academic mindsets, and one mindset in particular is staring me in the face, daring me to act.
