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Mar. 24th, 2004 05:03 pmJust went to a lecture on the visual representation of science, which is a topic of much interest to me, but I spent most of the lecture wanting to smack the speaker. She just had these *awful* smarmy mannerisms, like a kindergarten teacher or maybe Umbridge from HP5, and kept repeating over and over all these disclaimers about how she's not telling us what we *should* do, just what *she* likes to do, she's *inviting* us to have a *conversation*. Ugh, lady, get your head out of the humanities and talk like a scientist if you're going to give the bio/biochem joint seminar, huh? "Businesslike", we call it, none of this fakey-fakey cutesy "oh, I did this", clutch hand to chest, gesture gesture.
Hm, that could probably be offensive to humanities majors. I'm just saying, in the scientific subculture it is considered acceptable to make definite assertions about the merits of a proposed way of doing things. And good examples are going to make your case much better than repeated entreaties that we should just all try *thinking* about how we *look* at things because when we *open* our *eyes* we *open* our *minds* to *new* i*de*as.
Also I have an extreme and probably excessive hostility towards overly singsongy cadence.
Oh, also, if one of your big examples of learning through visualization is a student's animation that happens to be a total and complete rip-off of "The Powers of Ten", which is like one of the icons of visual representation, you look really ignorant if you have apparently never realized this, or like you're underestmating your audience if you think you don't need to mention this because they won't pick up on that. Or like you're all fine with visual plagiarism.
Hm, that could probably be offensive to humanities majors. I'm just saying, in the scientific subculture it is considered acceptable to make definite assertions about the merits of a proposed way of doing things. And good examples are going to make your case much better than repeated entreaties that we should just all try *thinking* about how we *look* at things because when we *open* our *eyes* we *open* our *minds* to *new* i*de*as.
Also I have an extreme and probably excessive hostility towards overly singsongy cadence.
Oh, also, if one of your big examples of learning through visualization is a student's animation that happens to be a total and complete rip-off of "The Powers of Ten", which is like one of the icons of visual representation, you look really ignorant if you have apparently never realized this, or like you're underestmating your audience if you think you don't need to mention this because they won't pick up on that. Or like you're all fine with visual plagiarism.
