Visualization Project

 

For this project, I decided to do a comic strip on how to regulate your emotions for young elementary special education students. I decided to go with a comic strip for this project because I figured for younger students, pictures help aid in the understanding of the text. I chose simple pictures so that it does not overwhelm my students and so that it is easier to follow along with for them. I only added a few items to each section of the comic strip so that they are able to focus on the information on in instead of other random items in the pictures.

              Creating this visualization project really helped deepen my understanding for the topic in many ways that just reading alone probably would not have. One way that it did that was by helping me realize that some peoples calming mechanisms or the way they go about them may be different than the way other peoples. It will help students make those connections when they look at it so that they know there are many different strategies. Another way that this visualization project deepened my understanding of the topic is by giving those examples calming mechanisms, it leaves the door open for other students to voice other examples of calming mechanisms as well. The last way it deepened my understanding of the topic is by using fewer and simpler visuals, it already gives a type of calming aspect to the visual showing that just putting yourself into a calming environment can also help with your emotions.

This project has influenced my thinking on visualization as a vehicle for learning in many different ways. First, it showed me how easy it is to make a fun and more engaging lesson for our students. It also showed me that not every piece of information you give has to be the most in-depth and detailed thing ever. That sometimes the text being straightforward and to the point can help your students learn the best. Another thing it has influenced for me is my potential use of it in my future classroom. After this assignment, I think I will use visualization quite often because it gives the students extra support and understanding while reading. I also think that this will make lessons much more engaging for my kids especially if they get to do an assignment where they get to make their own.