The graphics teaching tool

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Educators Program, SIGGRAPH '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Spalter, Anne Morgan ^a   Tenneson, Dana K ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Data representation; Education; Educational software; Free software; It literacy; Java; Visual literacy

Indexed keywords

DATA REPRESENTATION; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; FREE SOFTWARE; IT LITERACY;

COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70450255058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1179295.1179337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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