whiteboard discussion

Gather in groups of 2 or 3 students for an online whiteboard discussion. For the discussion please keep the following aspects in mind:

  1. What is displayed? – textual communication
  2. How is its graphical expressed? – Create a legend on the existing elements
  3. What are the problems exist with this map? – Would you, the user, be happy with it? – Record headwords, textually.
  4. Test some new presentation possibilities. – Be creative but keep the subject matter in mind. Finish this when you have agreed on a new legend.
  5. Make some closing comments on your results.

Leave your communication group and come back to this learning objective.

Map for     DiscussionMap for Discussion

It is often difficult to adhere readability rules on a map, but without paying attention to them, lower quality maps are the result. Cartography is not an intuitive type of art in which the graphic elements may be rearranged at will. Many of the shapes and their locations are imposed by geographical or locational facts. Nevertheless, these guidelines should be applied whenever possible.