Visualizing the Transition from Learning 1.0 to Learning 2.0

On 23 August 2008 By

On the wiki page devoted to VizThink’s Visual Learning Group, Brent Schlenker asked others represent the  transition from Learning 1.0 to Learning 2.0.

I contacted Brent a few weeks ago, manifesting my interest to participate. I’ve got something brewing…

Peter Stoyko has already come up with an information graphic. It focuses [...]

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How Gen Y Operates with Web 2.0

On 22 August 2008 By

Slideshare is nifty little tool and some already have come up with eLearning uses for it.

Here are two examples or Web 2.0 explained to Gen Y by Gen Y.

From the brilliant mind of Sacha Chua, sketched on her Nintendo DS, The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work:

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When Did We Forget How to Draw?

On 21 July 2008 By

In a recent blog post on Visual Thinking, George Siemens wrote:

I’m not a visual person. Ok, not totally true. I’m a visual person, but I lack skills to express myself visually.

He then provided a great link to Joan Vinall-Cox’s article on Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking. I wanted to [...]

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If an Image is Worth a Thousand Words, How Much is an Animation Worth?

On 15 July 2008 By

Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and James H. Fowler, Ph.D. recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network.

What is fantastic with this article published online is that there is a page with supplementary material containing [...]

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Visual Display of Information

On 10 July 2008 By

A few years ago, I discovered Edward Tufte, who has been writing about how to efficiently display information. Here are 2 exerpts from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) – click the images to enlarge.

I was thoroughly impressed with the multiple examples of clever mix of text and images. [...]

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