1. A method for visually displaying selections made by a group of users regarding portions of emphasized material selected by members of said group from a larger body of material, comprising: a. defining criteria for the appropriate selection of said emphasized material, wherein said material is selected from the group consisting of an image, a graphic, a picture, a diagram, and a video recording; b. providing means for each of said users within said group to review said larger body of material and independently emphasize selected portions of said larger body of material by using an emphasis element to delineate each of said selected portions, thereby creating a separate emphasis-modified material for each user; c. analyzing said emphasis-modified material for all of said users in order to determine how many of said users elected to emphasize a particular portion of material within said larger body of material; and d. visually displaying the results of said analysis, using a plurality of graduated emphasis elements to indicate an increasing level of consensus as to said selected portions.
7. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: a. wherein said defining criteria include: i. a first criterion, to be used for the selection of a first type of material; ii. a second criterion, to be used for the selection of a second type of material; b. wherein said emphasis means provided to each of said users includes: i. a first color used to highlight material selected according to said first criterion; ii. a second color used to highlight material selected according to said second criterion; c. wherein said step of visually displaying said results includes: i. displaying said selections made according to said first criterion in a plurality of different colors, wherein said colors are employed to indicate said increasing level of consensus; and ii. displaying said selections made according to said second criterion in a plurality of different colors, wherein said colors are employed to indicate said increasing level of consensus.