eSTEeM Colloquium: Pictures to Help People Think and Act

Dates: 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 09:00 to 16:15

Location

The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

Contact

eSTEeM

You are invited to a one day Colloquium organised by eSTEeM.

The Colloquium will explore the role of pictures and diagrams in learning.

Keynotes from OU and external speakers will include:

• Why diagrams are useful? What is special about them?
• How people use Rich Pictures to help them think and act
• Online use of diagrams to help people
• Communities and diagrams

These will be accompanied by two 45 minute Workshops on:

• How to draw meaningful Rich Pictures
• Online assessment of diagrams using iCMA

And a plenary audience feedback session.

The Colloquium will offer the chance to:

• Explore a powerful form of human communication
• Understand how this medium has been used in various cultures and contexts
• Evaluate how technologies can mediate picture drawing and
• Gain first-hand experience of rich picture making processes

It has been arranged for the Colloquium’s papers to be published in the Journal: Systemic Practice and Action Research in a special edition in the summer of 2012.