Resources
VRA Visual Communication Workshop 2021
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iy_f0IGHxIfF4vj50xAHBncX2CaVhHmyZnCpe_ZBHVY/edit#
NOTE TAKING AND DRAWING APPS
My favorites.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Sketchnoting in the Classroom:
Doug Neil - Verbal to Visual (YouTube video)
Matt Miller - Ditch That Textbook (YouTube video)
Carrie Baughcum - My Pencil Made Me Do It (YouTube video)
We Are Teachers - 10 Creative Ways to use Sketchnotes in Your Classroom (article)
Education Weekly - The Benefits of Using Doodling and Sketchnotes in the Classroom (article)
Sketchnoting / Visual Notetaking:
Mike Rhode - rohdesign.com
Sketchnote Army: (blog and podcasts)
Doug Neil: Verbal to Visual (web blog)
Sylvia Duckworth - sylviaduckworth.com
Brad Ovenell-Carter: A Sketchnote Primer (YouTube video)
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Sketchnoting in the Classroom: (website with lots of links)
Rob Dimeo: Sketchnote Resources (website with lots of links)
Scriberia: The Power of Sketchnotes (website)
Smashing Magazine: How to get Started with Sketchnotes (article)
Sketchnotes (Flickr group)
NY Times - A Simple Way to Better Remember Things: Draw a Picture (article)
CBS News - Brains Remember More Easily with Drawings than Written Notes (article)
Tara Siebarth - In Defense of Doodling (article)
NPR: Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away (article)
Scientific American: A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes With a Laptop (article)
Mind Shift: Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking (article)
The Power of Play:
Zat Rana: Why Playfulness is the Key to Success in the 21st Century (article)
Scott Carlson: Play Inspires Learning. But What is Play Exactly? (article)
Visual Thinking and Communication:
Quartz.com - Drawing is the best way to learn, even if you’re no Leonardo da Vinci (article)
Visual Marketing: A Picture is worth 60,000 words (article)
Amy Herman, Visual Intelligence (at Google) (Youtube video)
Scott McCloud: Good Morning Comics (blog)
NY Times - Skills and Strategies | Doodling, Sketching and ‘Mind Mapping’ as Learning Tools (article)
Sunni Brown: Doodlers, Unite! (TED Talk), sunnibrown.com
Diane Bleck - Doodle Institute
Derek Bruff's Blog on Agile Thinking: Visual Thinking (blog)
Visual Thinking Strategies - Visual Thinking, Art, and University Teaching Across Disciplines (article)
Dave Gray / Xplane: Visual Thinking (blog)
Dave Gray's Visual thinking reading list (blog)
McCrudden and Rapp - How Visual Displays Affect Cognitive Processing (article)
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall (article)
Business Insider: 7 science-backed reasons you should make art, even if you're bad at it (article)
UXdesign.cc: UX and Sketching: The Best Articles and Resources of 2017
Drawing Tools and Resources:
The Noun Project: (icons and more)
Visualizing Inclusiveness and Diversity
You Can't Just Draw Purple People and Call it Diversity
Easy Ways to Show More Diversity in Your Sketches
Diversity - Drawing People in Sketchnotes
Designing Inclusive Illustrations (or, a brief history of the Meeple)
Data Visualization:
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
Liz Anna Kozik Fifth Day Prairie Tumblr (MFA Thesis for University of Wisconsin, Madison)
The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press: Website
Information is Beautiful: Blog
We Love Datavis: Tumblr
Creative Bloq: 38 Best tools for data visualization (web page)
Flowing Data (web page)
Wired Magazine: The Nerdy Charm of Artisanal Hand-drawn Infographics (article)
Books:
Annotated visual bibliography (Rebecca Moss)
Academic Slide Design: Visual Communication for Teaching and Learning - Ann Fandrey, 2017
Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Don't Work - Dan Roam, 2011
Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design - Baskinger and Bardel, 2013
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards, 2012
Drawn Together Through Visual Practice - Agerbeck, Bird, Brand, Shepherd (editors), 2016
Fundamentals of Graphic Language: Practice Book - Grove Consultants, 1993
Graphic Facilitation: Transforming Group Process with the Power of Visual Listening - David Sibbet, 2006
How to Sketchnote: A Step-By-Step Manual for Teachers and Students - Sylvia Duckworth, 2018
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul - Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan, 2009
Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced Techniques for Taking Visual Notes You Can Use Anywhere, Mike Rodhe, 2015
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor - Lynda Barry, 2014
The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide - Peggy Dean, 2017