This is great, just got a better idea of how to ask my Psych of Crime teams to report on how different types of theories (biological, sociological and psychological) fare (poor, mediocre, very well) when it comes to different criteria (explaining the fundamental data of criminology, predicting future offending behaviour of individuals, generating treatment possibilities, and being ideological palatable) and to include their rationale for their judgements and, most importantly, to incorporate their ranking of which criteria are most important when selecting a good theory (the deeper question).

Never could figure out how to get at all this info communicated clearly and in a way that was visually easy to understand at a glance, but a colourful line graph, with stickies and rankings underneath the X axis might just work and be fun.
 
Thanks!

jill

 

At 01:05 PM 9/23/2009, Sweet, Michael S wrote:
Friends,

I have long been a fan of "gallery walks" as ways teams can produce complex-but-fast-and-visual materials for each other to critique and discuss.

Given butcher paper, markers, and masking tape, teams can be asked to draw chemical chains, concept maps, subjective timelines, and so on.  However, I have only ever had a handful of options, so the "and so on" in the preceding sentence has always been kind of a fraud.

Until now.

One of the teachers I am working with sent me this link to a "Periodic Table of Visualization Methods."  Holy smokes!  Each of the dozens of methods will show you an example if you hover over it (some take a while to load), and they are labeled as Process visualizations or Structure visualizations, each needing Convergent or Divergent thinking.

Zowee.  This is a real resource!

It is here:  http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html


-M




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