Program

(last updated 2 aug 2017)

Please plan to arrive in Portland on Friday afternoon evening, August 4. On Sunday afternoon, Aug 6, bus transportation will be provided to Bates College, the site of the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science & Education. ( This site may be offline. ) For additional details, please visit the travel and logistics web page.

For more program details, workshop participants please go to Participants' Workspace.

Saturday, August 5

8:30 - 10:30 am: Full group in 106 Preble Hall

  • Introductions & Logistics
  • Goals for the workshop
  • Pairwise activity: Think aloud while interpreting unfamiliar visualizations
  • Full group: Strategies, resources, and assumptions revealed by think-alouds

10:30 - 10:50 am: Break

10:50 - 12:00 Full group in 106 Preble Hall

  • Learning goals: What should a skillful visualizer know, understand and be able to do?

12:00 - 1:00 lunch

1:00 - 4:45 Work in strand groups

  • Assessing Strand: 106 Preble Hall
  • Fostering Strand: 107 Preble Hall

4:45 - 5:30 Full group 106 Preble Hall

  • What insights came out of Fostering?
  • What insights came out of Assessing?
  • Plans for evening and tomorrow.
6:30 - 8:30 Dinner and evening program at Gulf of Maine Research Institute (bus departs from front of residence hall at 6:10.)

Sunday, August 6

8:30 am - 12:00

  • Assessing Strand: 106 Preble Hall
  • Fostering Strand: 107 Preble Hall

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 pm: Full group 106 Preble Hall

  • Finding kindred souls: Share one insight you have gained or something you are puzzled about that you want to keep discussing during the coming week (silent written reflection, followed by option to speak aloud.) (Tim)
  • Unanswered questions: What questions do we still want answers to? (Kim)
    • Answers we can learn from experts
    • Answers that will need new research
  • Complete workshop evaluation

3:30 Bus departs for Bates College from in front of residence hall.