Teaching and Learning Activity

Module: Academic Literacy (HALP1181)

Week number (Date): 8 (09 April 2020)
Unit covered: 6 - Visual Literacy

Instructions:
To enrich your learning experience at Boston even further, and to ensure that you are
exposed to a variety of resources in this module, announcements will be posted every
week containing additional materials or activities for you to work through.

It is important to note that these activities are neither compulsory nor weighted, but that
it will be to your advantage to participate. The purpose of the activities is to help you
better understand the content of your weekly unit/s of study, and it will assist in creating
insight and deeper meaning.

Activity 6 is based on Unit 6 (Visual Literacy) of the prescribed courseware for this
module. Herewith are the solutions to the activity that was posted last week:

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Question 1: (15 marks)
Consider the following images and answer the questions that follow:

Image A

Sajjad Hossain, M. D. 2018. Macro photography. [Image]. Retrieved from

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sajjadphotography/42354418174 [Accessed 28 February 2020].

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 Image B

Ratner, B. 2015. Ethiopian-Israelis protest police brutality and racism in 2015. [Image]. Retrieved from
https://qz.com/africa/1663138/ethiopian-israeli-protests-on-police-killing-like-black-lives-matter/ [Accessed
28 February 2020].

1.1. Identify the camera shot of Image A. Justify your answer. (3 marks)

1.2. Provide your interpretation of the image. (2 marks)

1.3. Identify the camera shot of Image B. Justify your answer (3 marks)

1.4. Provide your interpretation of the image. (2 marks)

Question 2: (5 marks)
Discuss why your online module textbooks, accessed via ColCampus, are considered
multimedia texts. (5 marks)

Question 3: (10 marks)

Create a mind map based on Section 6.2.4 of Unit 6 of your textbook, Welcome to
Higher Education. (10 marks)

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