Sketchnoting is not just an attractive way to take notes, it can improve retention and learning. These sketchnoting resources will get you started with your students. You don’t have to have a ton of talent, just a little know-how. I’ll update these sketchnoting resources, so tweet me or leave a comment to add your favorites. Don’t get overwhelmed, just get started. Twitter Tip: If you want to find and share great sketchnotes, follow the # hashtag on Twitter.
Resources on Sketchnoting and Visual Notetaking: Most Valuable Sketchnoting Resources. The with Sylvia Duckworth, Kathy Schrock, Carrie Baugham, Marie-Andree Oumiet. What a group. (moderated by me – Vicki ? Periscoped it – the volume isn’t great but it is there.
A couple of days ago, I got her new book “Sketchnotes for Educators“. When I’d heard that she was going to publish her collection, I had my doubts. What possible additional value could there be for a printed version of what we could see online? I supposed that, if all that you wanted was her pictures, that would be enough.
ISTE filmed it but I can’t find where it was put! NEW 7/12/2016. Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting.
Karen Bosch’s. – one of my most popular blog posts that incorporates visual notetaking/sketchnoting into how I teach students to take notes. Sylvia Duckworth’s for Beginners. Karen Bosch’s. – Popular TED Talk by Sunni Brown – She uses the term “doodle” but many I know use sketchnotes or edusketch as their titles.
Warning – you can’t really use this video with K12 kids, it has an inappropriate joke in it. Pick some of the others I’ve listed here. Sketchnoting Tools.
(scroll down for her current recommendations). 10 Habits of Bloggers that Win, Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote of the ebook by Vicki Davis Places to See Awesome Sketchnotes. – Sylvia sketches relevant things for educators today. “Ainsworth, Prain and Tyler (2011) in a paper in Science argue that drawing can play a number of important roles in learning:, namely: Drawing to enhance engagement — surveys have shown that when students draw to explain they are more motivated to learn compared to traditional teaching of science. Drawing to learn to represent in science — the process of producing visual representations helps learners understand how scientific representations work.
Drawing to reason in science — student learn to reason like scientists as they select specific features to focus on in their drawings, aligning it with observation, measurement and/or emerging ideas Drawing as a learning strategy — if learners read a text and then draw it, the process of making their understanding visible and explicit helps them to overcome limitations in presented material, organise and integrate their knowledge and ultimately can be transformative. Drawing to communicate — discussing their drawings with their students provides teachers with windows into students’ thinking as well being a way that the peers can share knowledge, discovery and understanding.”.