The Back of the Napkin Bio is an activity that is part of our “Going Visual” workshop, in which participants learn to be better visualizers. This activity tends to be a favourite, so we are including the instruction sheets here, for your use. This downloadable going visual handout (PDF) is an instruction guide for the …
Arducorder Mini: Prototype Learn how to build a Star Trek-like tricorder using things you can buy at the mall. Of course it helps to be a mechanically inclined scientist/inventor who owns their own soldering kit.
Arducorder Mini: Prototype Learn how to build a Star Trek-like tricorder using things you can buy at the mall. Of course it helps to be a mechanically inclined scientist/inventor who owns their own soldering kit.
The art of cinema is a blended craft. Combining photography, design, the understanding of lighting, acting and the illusive magic of performance and recording, filmmaking is alchemy, where the end result is much more than any of its individual parts. In the interest of understanding how “movies work”, director Steven …
A Wordle graphic is a useful visual means to summarize discussions. Below is a summary of 800+ postings from 1200 students to the course question: Can a GIS database produce an accurate representation of the real world? If yes, then how do we properly address concerns with GIS such as …
A Wordle graphic is a useful visual means to summarize discussions. Below is a summary of 800+ postings from 1200 students to the course question: Can a GIS database produce an accurate representation of the real world? If yes, then how do we properly address concerns with GIS such as …
Image Quilts is a browser extension that will, with a click of a button, tile together all the images on a page. Why would you do this? Well, it is an effective way to see an overview of your subject matter and create connections. You’ll be able to manipulate your …
Developing your graphic facilitation skills takes practice, but it’s fun and rewarding activity that can aid in communicating your ideas to others, or working together in groupwork of all kinds. Learning Objective + Pre-Assessment: 1. Create representations of ideas, expressions, feelings, or concepts graphically 2. Find out background of each …
Inspired by one of our proteges recent ventures into info graphics that display geographic information, specifically related to the earths water supply, I stumbled on the old post from bibliodyssey blog. An amazing collection of Victorian area “infographics” showing the worlds mountains and rivers in relation to one another. High …
The Wordle representation above shows the frequently occurring concepts associated with “Infographics” as contained in the video presentation at: http://hadar.tlc.sfu.ca/wordpress/emp-3-development-of-graphics/.
