Sketchnoting

Sketchnotes: Not Just for Artists @ TCEA 2016

By: Amanda Kinney

8th Grade Math Intervention

Robotics Coach

Texas Middle School

Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don't require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.

10 Tips to Get Started with Sketchnoting Miami Device Workshop

November 15, 2015

Note: The 10 Tips to Get Started with Sketchnoting workshop was held for 2 hours!

It gave us the opportunity to DO what we were talking about. Participants were able to practice sketching the content of the workshop as they were learning about sketchnoting! We walked, step by step, through building a sketch by remembering these 10 tips:

1. Remembering that you don’t have to be an artist to use sketchnoting as note taking or to make your thinking visible.

2. Sketchnoting is about ideas, connections, thinking, about the process , visualizing and organizing your thinking.

3. What can be sketchnoted? Books, TED Talks, Lectures, Articles, Brainstorming sessions, Presentations, Birthday Cards or blog posts.

4. Different types of structures: linear, columns, freehand, timelines.

5. Elements: connections, icons & bullets, containters, typography, people & objects

6. Listening Tips

7. Practice objects, increase your visual gallery

8. Sketchnoting for: process ideation, note taking, mindmapping, reflection

9. Tools

10. Share: Although sketchnotes are supposed to make primarily sense to you alone, sharing them via social media allows others to learn from your perspective and your visible thinking.

Sketchnoting