Representation of abstract ideas or real data to illustrate an/or demonstrate the relationship of pieces of information.

Learner Applications: Analyze, communicate, present information; make presentations

Instructor Applications: Communicate; demonstrate; present information

Examples:

• Dr.Mohamed Taher's Visual Resume
• Ground Zero Planner -
  
• Social Impact Games -
• Gapminder - Life expectancy + income + geographic location
• Flicker - Student learning by Associating Categories (tags)
• Glogster - Greetings from the World, click on These Wonderful Glogs.
  

Services:

• Flickr - Photo sharing service, see Spell with Flickr,
• Gliffy - Charts, graphs and concept mapping.
• Glogster - create digital posters, see http://edu.glogster.com/.
  
• Imagination Cubed - A free real time drawing and brainstorming tool that can be used at the same time by people in different places. Results can be saved and downloaded.
  
• Kartoo - Visual meta-search engine
  
• see Concept Maps and Mashups
• Media Cloud - automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.
• Picnik - FREE & EASY online photo editor
• Wordle - is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Successful Practices:

References:
Edward Tufte - Theory about how to depict visual information.