The University of Western Australia Drawing is a powerful tool used to communicate, transfer information and solve problems, by its affect on our senses. It is an integral part of the human experience. Approximately eighty percent of our sensory input comes from our visual system. Much of what we learn and experience is through our visual sense. Much of our technological world could not exist without the use of graphics to plan, produce, market, and maintain goods and services.
Visual language is especially helpful to the learning process.
There is a tremendous amount of information that can be transferred in a visual way in every discipline, but particularly in engineering, physics, chemistry, dentistry, anatomy, biology, botany, zoology, geography, astronomy and meteorology. We do not need to be experts in drawing techniques to be able to use them in our lectures and tutorials, relevant to our discipline. There are simple techniques and rules, which can improve our drawing skills. This demonstration session aims to give basic instructions to the Forum participants, on how to be more successful in transmitting knowledge to students, by including a visual mode. No background knowledge is necessary to understand the teaching and learning activity, which will be presented in this demonstration.