Learner #1

A. Background Information

Age
26
 

Middle School

High School

College

Masters

PHD

Education
x
x
x
x
 
Major Computer Science for BS and MS
Profession CEO of Silicon Valley Internet start-up

 

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

Poor

...

Fair

...

Good

Poor

...

Fair

...

Good

 

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

5

   

Environment

Knowledge of visual thinking environments

   
x
         
x
     

Become self-reflective about your own environment

   
x
         
x
     

Know how to establish a productive working environment

   
x
         
x
     

Understand how objects in your environment can stimulate ideas

   
x
         
x
     

Culture

Knowledge of the visualization culture

   
x
         
x
     

Acquaintance of visualization tools and techniques

   
x
         
x
     

Understanding of the essential cycle of sketching, prototyping and critiquing

   
x
         
x
     

Experience in activities that ready you for visual thinking

   
x
         
x
     

Seeing

Awareness of how you see

   
x
         
x
     

Knowledge of your visual stereotypes

   
x
         
x
     

Understanding of how motion translates into form

   
x
         
x
     

Ability to notice visual details

   
x
         
x
     

Ability to sort, categorize, and group elements visually

   
x
         
x
     

Knowledge of how different people have different perspectives

   
x
         
x
     

Drawing

Experience of using drawing to enhance seeing

   
x
         
x
     

Knowledge of basic drawing techniques

   
x
         
x
     

Intuitive understanding of shading and perspective

   
x
         
x
     

Ability to construct simple objects

   
x
         
x
     

Knowledge of diversity in drawing approaches and competencies

   
x
         
x
     

Diagramming

Understanding of different forms of diagramming

   
x
         
x
     

Experience in using and creating symbols

   
x
         
x
     

Skills in rendering ideas

   
x
         
x
     

Appreciation of diagramming in everyday contexts

   
x
         
x
     

Imagining

Ability to internally visualize objects

   
x
         
x
     

Awareness of the power of your own imaginative abilities

   
x
         
x
     

Use collective imagining to solve problems

   
x
         
x
     

Articulate ideas through sound and imagery

   
x
         
x