Science Visualization, in general

• Move past old dialogic paradigms
• Build on students’ natural cognitive strengths
• Use visualization and other common ground representations to connect schools with outside communities

• Interactive, 3D Terrain Visualization gives students a strong spatial sense of a place
• Accessing data about a place by going to that place (virtually) reinforces and enriches the meaning of the data
• Authoring and accessing information in a spatialized, networked environment adds new dimensions to collaborative study
• Allows the student to experience place as a continuum from local to global, of which they are a part