What is Visual-Spatial intelligence?

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Students who are "picture smart" have the capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly. The "picture smart" student has the ability to represent the spatial world in their minds. So, they learn best visually and tend to organize their thinking spatially. They like to think and create pictures. They are also drawn to information that is presented in a visual form.

Students with strong visual/spatial intelligence enjoy, and have success, working with Computer-Aided Design, Animation software, puzzle building tools, draw programs - GIMP, Paint programs, publishing - layout aspect, presentation (Impress) - visual layout aspect, charts, graphs, and tables, Digital drawing pads, 3D and morphing software, Video conferencing, scrapbooking, photo albu

ms, and slide shows: oral history projects, color-code projects and ideas, Board Games, Video / Digital Camera, Concept Mapping Tools and Diagrams.

3D Builder allows students to create an interactive 3D environment to shared over the web via a simple URL. Check the minimum System Requirements1) Windows 2000/XP OS or 2) Solaris 10 OS or 3) Mac OS X Tiger before downloading and installing.

FreeMind - free mind mapping software, for Linux, Apple and Windows, is available in two versions -- maximum and minimum. . Maximum version contains additional plugins. The plugins feature exporting to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), exporting to Portable Document Format (PDF), reminders that can be attached to nodes, and help for FreeMind reminiscent of help usually delivered with Microsoft Windows applications.

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