Website "Technical Drawing" for Development of Spatial and Constructive Thinking
Society. Integration. Education: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference. Vol.4 2015
Ieva Jurāne, Inta Znotiņa Znotiņa, Austris Mackus, Andris Snipkis

Nowadays, not every school of Latvia offers it’s pupils to acquire the basics of technical drawing. As a result, university lecturers often find that students lack the spatial and constructive thinking skills needed to successfully participate in graphics and design related courses. To try to improve the situation in early 2013, Riga Technical University lecturer Ieva Jurāne (Mg.sc.ing.), in collaboration with University of Liepaja Natural and Engineering Faculty, decided to develop a website "Technical Drawing" (http: //rasesana.it- studenti.liepu.edu.lv), in which every interested person, irrespective of whether it is a student or a pupil, could independently solve a variety of technical drawing course related tasks, thus developing their spatial and constructive thinking skills, which later makes it easier to learn complex Engineering Graphics programs such as AutoCAD or SolidWorks. This publication is made to present the web sites "Technical Drawing" purpose, content and development process.


Keywords
constructive thinking, spatial thinking, technical drawing, website
Hyperlink
http://journals.ru.lv/index.php/SIE/issue/view/26/showToc

Jurāne, I., Znotiņa, I., Mackus, A., Snipkis, A. Website "Technical Drawing" for Development of Spatial and Constructive Thinking. In: Society. Integration. Education: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference. Vol.4, Latvia, Rēzekne, 22-23 May, 2015. Rēzekne: Rēzeknes Augstskola, 2015, pp.450-456. ISBN 978-9984-44-164-1. e-ISBN 978-9984-44-169-6. ISSN 1691-5887. e-ISSN 2256-0629.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)
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