Christiane's+Review

== We were privileged to review Team B's wiki this week and I was pleasantly surprised to what a wonderful wiki they had created. Being an art teacher, I loved all the inviting graphics and color. For an average individual, color and graphics might not be important, but for individuals who are predominantly right brained color, graphics and visually creative text is very important for visualization and comprehension. == == The component of visual graphics is important for the e-learning environment because it does not only help segment the individual lessons for the student to learn and comprehend but it makes it interesting and inviting for the student to want to engage in it too. Even though we need to be very careful how we implement graphics because according to research working memory has a limited capacity and can be easily overloaded. == == Breaking graphics down into it's essential visual elements can minimize the amount of information that our working memory has to manipulate. You have representational graphics which are used to portray single elements, relational graphics which help identify quantitative relationships among variables. Organizational graphics used to help illustrate relationships among variables and transformational graphics which help depict changes in objects over time and last but not least interpretive graphics which help to illustrate invisible relationships. == == Graphics and color are one of the most important aspects in e-learning in my book because we use them to demonstrate content, use them as topic organizers, shows relationships and use them in lesson interfaces. ==