VISUAL LEARNING: THE FUN WAY WITH THUMB CHARTS

Thumbnail Charts or Thumbcharts help us to explore ideas, and to learn efficiently.

These images are not detailed; rather, you zoom into, and quickly jot down your thoughts and feelings about a topic, to create a tapestry I call a Thumbchart.

Here are the steps to get you buzzing:

1. Select your topic;

2. Draw your topic theme and give it a title;

3. Use a pencil or pen, black & white initially if you wish, but multicolour for the final layout;

4. Rough drawings are fine;

5. Write notes beside each drawing in each thumbnail box (and on attached sheets when detailed);

6. Create a legend (a symbol code) to highlight the status of each box;

This strategy gives instant clues for you to recall important details about each item.

In the exercise below, see if you can write brief notes in each box to explain for example, why fruits, vegetables, fish, and water, can be good for you, why you might need to beware of certain cooking oils, and so on.

I have started you off in the ‘Fruits’ and ‘Water’ boxes.

Example: Let us select the topic ‘Nutrition’. A starting point could be ‘Fruits’ and ‘Vegetables’; they provide a variety of nutrients. Now keep going...


[To be continued in the Next Post. Excerpted from the 'Thinkerbelles' edition of The InGenius Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]