Reflection of Second Lesson

Feedback of Second Lesson

I agree with following key points came from Tufte(1983) and Lester(2000):

• Well designed graphics are far more effective than words.
• Visuals are instruments that help people to reason about information.
• Produce powerful pictures so that viewers can remember their content.
• Analyzing images makes you take long careful look. First image becomes part of your general knowledge. The more you know the more you see.

Types of visuals can be :

• Photorealistic images
• Paintings and drawings
• Caricatures, cartoons, abstract art, etc
• Symbols and icons
• Mindmaps

References

• Tufte, E. R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, Connecticut:Graphics Press.
• Lester, P. M. (2000). Visual communication. Belmont, CA:Thomson Learning.

My Personal Story

URL :http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/ykwong5/My_Personal_Story.ppt

According to above picture, can you guess : what is my occupation and my hobby ?

Reflection of first lesson

Feedback of first lesson

• After first lesson, I knew that this module will teach us how to use "interactive and visual displays" to representate "information and knowledge".
• Visuals can communicate complex ideas with clarity, precision, efficiency and convey the most knowledge in the shortest time in the small space. [Tufte (1983)]
• I wish after the module, I can use technology-based tools to tranform data, information, knowledge and ideas into "interactive visual representations".