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A. Background Information

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    B. What You Learned

    Please fill out the following table, indicating how well you understood the concept before using VizAbility and how well you understand it after. A 1 represents poor understanding while a 5 represents good understanding.
     

    Before using VizAbility

    		 

    After using VizAbility

    		 

    Internal use

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    Environment

    Knowledge of visual thinking environments

    		                         

    Become self-reflective about your own environment

    		                         

    Know how to establish a productive working environment

    		                         

    Understand how objects in your environment can stimulate ideas

    		                         

    Culture

    Knowledge of the visualization culture

    		                         

    Acquaintance of visualization tools and techniques

    		                         

    Understanding of the essential cycle of sketching, prototyping and critiquing

    		                         

    Experience in activities that ready you for visual thinking

    		                         

    Seeing

    Awareness of how you see

    		                         

    Knowledge of your visual stereotypes

    		                         

    Understanding of how motion translates into form

    		                         

    Ability to notice visual details

    		                         

    Ability to sort, categorize, and group elements visually

    		                         

    Knowledge of how different people have different perspectives

    		                         

    Drawing

    Experience of using drawing to enhance seeing

    		                         

    Knowledge of basic drawing techniques

    		                         

    Intuitive understanding of shading and perspective

    		                         

    Ability to construct simple objects

    		                         

    Knowledge of diversity in drawing approaches and competencies

    		                         

    Diagramming

    Understanding of different forms of diagramming

    		                         

    Experience in using and creating symbols

    		                         

    Skills in rendering ideas

    		                         

    Appreciation of diagramming in everyday contexts

    		                         

    Imagining

    Ability to internally visualize objects

    		                         

    Awareness of the power of your own imaginative abilities

    		                         

    Use collective imagining to solve problems

    		                         

    Articulate ideas through sound and imagery