"TEACHING STUDENTS GOOD VISUAL EXPLANATIONS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES"
Matt Rohn, Art and Art History
Wednesday, October 30
11:45-1:15 in Buntrock 142
2002-2003 CILA Associate Matt Rohn will present some of Edward R.
Tufte's principles for how people in all disciplines can convey
ideas well in charts, diagrams, images, and other visual displays.
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University, has written seven books, including "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative," "Envisioning Information," "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information," and "Data Analysis for Politics and Policy." (The first three are all in both St. Olaf and Carleton library collections.) His books have received more than 40 awards for content and design.
This will be an interactive session in which Matt hopes to learn how important the visual imaging of ideas is to your students and how we can help them convey ideas better through the use of images in papers, poster presentations, Web assignments, etc.
