Teaching Dinosaur Origami

Found this image today (via Feltron, via Powersof10) of what appears to be origami instructions to creating a dinosaur. (Wish the image was bigger…) Great example of SM in pedagogy, in this case, demonstrating the steps of a task:

Small multiples visually represent the steps of a skill. SM are very efficient devices in illustrating steps via its tacit stop-motion representation. Breaking down each step is key in performing task analyses, a basic classic deliverable of instructional designers.

My guess is that this image had some kind of explanatory text with it and I wished I could have seen that to compare how the two “sets” of instructions competed. I have thoughts about how this could be improved (tasks made bigger/more overt, better use of arrows or even beginning and end state arrows, step indications, etc.) but this is a nice illustration of a skill-based SM demonstration.

Originally published at https://visualness.wordpress.com on October 31, 2009.