Using Visuals to Express Your Ideas
I’m researching the best presentation format for helping audiences of social change agents understand and act on a variety of social work research reports. Today George Siemens at his elearnspace blog wrote about improving his use of visuals to express ideas. When I do workshops I need good visuals that support a solid communication strategy. Like George, I’m working at improving my ability to design effective visuals.
I’ve scrolled through the resources George listed in his post and I was blown away by the excellent tools in each of his links. His list is a portal for every kind of visualization tool you could ever imagine. For my purposes, I discovered that I need to do more strategic thinking about the overall purpose of the presentation before I even open up a slide. The best advice and resource I found came from the Extreme Presentation blog where I learned about the 10 Steps to Extreme Presentation Method. It’s a very powerful tool that I can apply to many of my projects. Below is a master list of visual tools that George collected via his Twitter contacts.
Thinking Visually
Periodic table of visualization methods
Chart of visualization options
Exploratree
WikiViz tools
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Thanks for your comment Ruby. I hope you find more resources on this subject.
It seems great to make use of visuals to express your ideas.I think that they would be able to understand the situation easier using words. I know that everyone hopes to succeed in showing their expression on different ways.