The use of 'pictures' in reviewing helps learners to 'see' their experiences and to communicate their experiences to others.
Pictures can also enhance the quality of communication throughout the learning cycle.
The reviewing techniques described below illustrate some of the basic tools and strategies that can be used to exploit our need to think and communicate in pictures. Whatever is created through pictures serves as a visual aid or confidence booster in helping people to communicate their experience of the activity to others. Pictures expand the 'language' of reviewing, open up new channels of communication and generally help to develop communication skills. The picture may speak for itself, sometimes communicating more about an activity experience than a verbal picture would achieve. Pictures can be used at all stages of a learning cycle - for describing the past, for communicating about the present and for envisioning the future.