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But first...

• TeachIT 2002
• Chris Dede
  • Keynote: 10am-11am, Friday, Apr 12, Beckman Auditorium
  • Informal discussion, 1:30-2:30, Room 42A Education Building
• AERA report
• Your progress reports
  • post URL
  • be sure to do formative evaluation
  • human subjects approval

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Your reactions to the CTER White Papers

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Educational uses of visualization and data mining

• "Mental models": We are interested in what "mental models" you have for using computer networks. For example, people often think about the atom as being like a miniature solar system. The solar system is then a mental model of the atom.
  What "mental model (s)" do you use to think about the World-Wide Web?

Human visual processing

• evolutionarily earlier than more abstract thought
• easier to see patterns visually than more abstractly

Visualization

• Edward Tufte
  • Napoleon's invasion of Russia
  • Thunderstorm visualizations, before & after Tufte's visit to NCSA
• NCSA's Internet traffic map
• WEATHER.COM's weather animations
• CANIS' visualizations of the Internet
• SmartMarket.com's Map of the Market

During Lab:

• Dan Kauwell: VisIT: Visualization of Information Tool
• Yiming Jin: anonymous questionaire about EdPsy 387

For next week: