visual explanations

Materials for the Nanoelectronics and Photonics Seminar visual explanations presentation.

• Witte: Visual Explanations: http://www.jimwitte.com/static/visual/
• Tufte: PowerPoint does Rocket Science: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB
• Alley: Assertion-Evidence Format: http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html

FIles and resources for Nov 17 2010 Visual explanations workshop for the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

• http://www.jimwitte.com/static/visual: Visual Explanations Handout
• http://writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html: Dr. Michael Alley's Visual Evidence Format

Materials for my FSI 2010 learning team are online at:
http://visual.jimwitte.com

FSI 2009 Materials for Learning Team
Brian McNurlen & Jim Witte

Visual explanations:
http://jimwitte.com/static/visual/

Attached PPT presentations below.

Here's a short activity that has learners copy and paste internet-based images into a PowerPoint 2003 slide, and has them construct a graphic organizer showing the life cycle of a butterfly.

Attachments below include the activity in PDF format and the exemplar PPT slides (in PPT format).

HTML version of my visual explanations article is now online at:
http://jimwitte.com/static/visual/

This is an article I wrote for the Spring 2008 campus "iTeach" newsletter on visual explanations in presentation slides. Attached article is formatted to be a paper handout.

The article is online at:
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech/newsletter/iteach/ITe@ch_Spring2008_New...

Materials to accompany workshops presented July 21 2007, Sept 14 2007, Oct 10 2007, Oct 11 2007 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Presenters: Brian McNurlen (CITES ClassTech), Chris Migotsky (CTE), Jim Witte (ATLAS)
Materials at: http://jimwitte.com/workshops/beyond

Materials that accompanied a workshop on Oct 4 2006.
Available at: http://jimwitte.com/workshops/graphics