Teach English with Pictures

Teach the English language using pictures to show vocabulary.

UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library: Introduction

The University of Victoria Language Teaching Clipart Library consists of about 3000 images which will be useful in the teaching of basic English vocabulary.

The characters and objects depicted are culturally neutral.

The UVic clip art library purpose is to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for low-level language-teaching, and at the same time, to make them as easily searchable as possible.

Go to The UVIC Clipart Library
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/

UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library: Credits

Innovative Teaching Fund University of Victoria
Administered by the Learning and Teaching Centre
Provided some of the funding for the initial development of this project.

Humanities Computing and Media Centre,
University of Victoria
Provided staff and computing resources required for the development of this project.

Half-Baked Software Inc.
Provided the distribution setup for the initial CD release, and continued funding for the ongoing development of the project.

Sarah Wilkin
Drew the blob-people figures and most of the other illustrator files.

Sandra Alberg
Drew the stick-people figures and most of the other graphics which became Photoshop files.

Kat Tancock
Processed Sandra's work into photoshop files and touched them up, compiled some of the list of keywords and tested everything.

Erin Tancock
Standardized many graphic file names and added keywords to the search engine.

Hilary Street
Created some of the Photoshop and Illustrator files, processed many of the the graphics files and designed the interface.

Martin Holmes
Had the idea, wrote the JavaScript, designed the interface and compiled most of the list of keywords.

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