Requirement in educational technology1

1. Teaching with VISUAL SYMBOLS

2. VISUAL SYMBOLS
• Visual symbols are representation of direct
reality, which comes in the forms of signs and
symbols.
• These are highly abstract representation.

3. VISUAL SYMBOLS
• Drawings
• Cartoons
• Strip Drawings
• Diagrams
• Charts
• Graphs
• Maps

4. Drawing
• The art or act of of making figure, plan or sketch
by means of line. (Webster,1976)
• One essential skill that a teacher ought to
posses.

5. Example of Drawing

6. Cartoons
• The symbolism conveys the message.
• It can bring novelty to our teaching.

7. Example of Cartoon

8. Strip Drawings
• These are commonly called comics or comic
strips. Dale (1969) asserts that a more accurate
term is strip drawing.

9. Example of Strip Drawing

10. Diagram
• Any line drawing that shows arrangement and
relations as part of the whole, relative values,
origins and development, etc. (Dale, 1969)

11. Types of Diagrams
Affinity Diagram

12. Tree Diagram

13. Fish Bone Digram

14. Charts
• Is a diagrammatic representation of relationships
among individuals within an organization.

15. Examples of Chart
Time Chart

16. Flow Chart

17. Organizational Chart

18. Graphs
• Based diagrams: these take a collection of
items and relationships between them, and
express them by giving each item a 2D position,
while the relationships are expressed as
connection between the items.

19. Bar Graph Pie or Circle Graph
Examples of Graph

20. Maps
• A map is a representation of the surface of the
earth or some part of it.

21. Political Map
Example of Map

22. “Visual symbols will be made
meaningful if we can use them as a
summaries of our direct experiences
or our rich indirect experiences … A
little can stands for a lot !”

23. Questions ???