Caracal.docx



Greetings, everyone. This is Michelle Eberle and I'm a consultant with the Massachusetts Library System. My pronouns are she and her. On behalf of the Massachusetts Library System. I'm pleased to offer this webinar today in collaboration with April Mazza. Thank you for joining us for this educational and fun webinar Sketchnoting: Enhance Your Learning. I'm excited that we have Holly Weimar and Karin Perry with us today. They're the authors of the book Sketchnoting in School, Discover the Benefits and Fun of Visual Note Taking.A couple of years ago, I discovered Holly and Karin at their presentation at the American Library Association National Conference in Washington, D.C.. I had been interested to try sketch noting and found their presentation very helpful and inspiring. Holly and Karin are both in the faculty of the Library Science and Technology Department at the Sam Houston State University. We'll have time for Q&A at the end of the presentations. You can enter your questions in the Q&A throughout the session. You can also share comments and connect with colleagues in the chat. Thank you, Holly and Karen, for joining us today. Over to you.Well, thank you. I know we're excited to be here, and so this is Sketchnoting: Enhance Your Learning and you know, there's things that you write notes down for and you, you know, go back to them and look at them and maybe you wonder what you wrote sometimes if you were in a hurry. And it just doesn't always look pretty. I'll show you an example of mine in just a few minutes, but we're going to talk about how you can use sketch noting to help you with those things. And that uses text, it uses images and use or, organization. And that's really part of, an important part of taking sketch notes.And one of the things as far as taking notes at meetings, I have been to so many meetings where I just take notes and notes and notes and then the meeting is over or the website or the, the professional development is over. I put it in my binder, put it in my notebook, and I never look at it again. It doesn't seem to be the case when you're using images and stuff for me, anyway.I agree.And so who are we? I am Karin Perry over there on the left. I really don't know what you are seeing, but so I'm on the left. I'm an associate professor and program, program coordinator for the Library Science Program at Sam Houston State. And my colleague.I'm Holly Weimar, and I'm so glad to be here. And also, being able to present with Karin. She's so much fun. And we're colleagues and I love working with her and being able to talk about sketch noting. It's so cool.We like doing this in person a lot more, but it's still fun to talk about the topic. But, but here we go. So, there's our book sketch noting in school and Holly and I both learned about sketch noting at the same time. We were at a conference with our colleague, Dr. Mary Ann Bell, who isn't with us anymore, but we remember her dearly and are so thankful to her because she opened this world to us. We started immediately after that session and we have updates.And so, she is on the book with us because she wrote her part of it when she was. She wrote the beginning chapter and the ending chapter and got them done before we had finished our stuff.And that actually was something that worked out really well. But we laugh about it that she was able to do that. And, you know, we took our time with that.Yeah, yeah.So, the 180 Sketchnoting Practice Prompts is Karin's work and things that she's done in there to help you think of things on how you want to draw something. It is really cool book and it's colorful and so it can give you an idea of how to draw various, using various shapes and stuff to develop a visual vocabulary. Right, I'll take you through kind of starting at the very basic and I'll take you all the way through at the end. You're doing sketch notes with different types of organizational structures, which is a little bit lower, later. But we're going to talk you'll see a couple of examples of the visual vocabulary stuff as we go in later this presentation. Um, Holly.Ok, Karin, did you advance yet? There we go. So, when we wrote our book with Dr Mary Ann Bell and we had a set of standards that we followed, which was Common Core, we included that in the book, which was really interesting, is that after our book came out, AASL has their book, they came out on the new standards. And with that, what I really like about it is I saw immediate connection when I was looking not at the frameworks but at the domains, because the domains are, I think, create, share and grow. And so, with sketch noting, that's, you know, you're thinking about things, you're bringing images in, you're making connections. And that's the big part is making those connections because we know that how that helps us to learn and to grow and to remember things.So, next is the. Now this was done in Procreate. This is mine. You'll definitely see a big difference in styles between Karen and mine. And what I was doing here is trying out different kinds of textures, if you want to say that, and how things would work and Procreate. Because I love paper and I work with all kinds of medium and paper. I use pencils, pens, you name it, markers, crayons, whatever I have available. So, I started playing and Procreate with some of the different brushes that they have. So, if you look at this, you can see maybe a little bit of watercolors and markers that I was playing with, even a crayon type. And I was just, we were learning at some professional development and I thought, I'm going to try what Karin's doing using Procreate. So, this is a very simple drawing. It has meaning to me when I look at it, and it may not to you and it may not be pretty to you, but to me, since it has that meaning, that's that's what counts.Yeah, that's about sketch notes too is because sketch note is really for you. It doesn't matter what your neighbors looks like, it doesn't matter what you get out of your neighbor's product sketch. Noting is what you make it for yourself, that you're learning. If you're making connections, you're thinking about the things that you're learning and you are the one that creates it, and, and makes meaning. That's why it's so great to use with all different kinds of students, all different kinds of people, all different kinds of learners, because there's no one right way to do it.That's all right.So, we're going to share a little theory with you right now to help, help you understand why we believe in this so much. So, it, from human growth and development courses you're, you should be familiar with Piaget and McTigue and Willis, as an upgrade, you're teaching the Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience. They refer to Piaget in there. And they also have a couple of quotes that I want to share for, for, with you. And I will read those because I'm not sure how big your screen is and if you'd be able to see it. Both of these quotes come from page nine. I really like page nine, but let me share why.So, the first quote is, Storing information in memory by relationship patterning allows for easier, more efficient retrieval of information, which is essential to interpreting and predicting, and enacting the best response to something new. That really speaks to me about some of the things that I envision sketch noting doing for me and hopefully for you as well.And then the second quote is, this ability for prediction, guided by pattern recognition, is a foundation for successful literacy, numeracy test-taking appropriate social-emotional behavior, and understanding. And so, it's going to be that understanding that I really land on that with Piaget and the schemas, the contextual frameworks, and stuff. And you bring things together and you make connections. Then you have learning going on in the moment.You know, from neuroscience, the more you know about neuroscience, you realize that the more times that you make those connections, the more likely you are to remember it and use it in other ways. And that is what's the beauty of sketch noting.So, you're saying here is a list that I made last week and why I decided to use this is because I really got frustrated with this list. I had several places to go and one thing that I needed to do, and it, I had this list. It doesn't look hard. You can glance at that, right? And remember what you need to get at each place. Well, there was a problem because I was around a lot of people and we're supposed to be social distancing. We're wearing a mask and everything. But it was busy. And so, I'd find myself distracted. And if I was checking out my grocery cart and I'd look down and go, OK, did I get this? And I didn't pick them up in order or anything like that. And so, I had to reread the list to make sure that I got everything, and I had to do it several times. So, it was frustrating. You may not have that problem. That could be my own problem, but this is where I find that sketch noting helps me.So, I'm a real paper-oriented person. So, you can see me standing there, say, hey, please take out a piece of paper. Well, a lot of people might just be using their devices. And so, it's really your preference on what you want to do and how you want to, to draw and learn. And both work very well with sketch noting.So, the next thing I have, these are done on Procreate, and they're not nearly as elaborate as what Karin does, I don't have as much experience, but I do like to have fun and I like to make simple drawings while I'm doing something. So, I was reading Lang's book Distracted. And so how can I not be distracted in capturing notes? And I just find myself wondering sometimes if I'm tired and listening to someone speak. I'm in a meeting on my, you know, how can I stay in place? And as you can tell, when I drew this one wants to reclaim mine it's because I was thinking about something to eat as well as I wanted to capture these things when I was reading his book. So, what Lang recommends in his book is that to, to be able to stay on track and to capture those things that you want to know and make those connections is you need a sense of autonomy and therefore, simple things that fit very well with sketch noting, time management, you know. If you want to learn anything new or do anything, you've got to manage your time and devote time to it. You have to set goals, you know, what are you going to be doing? And values will feed into that because that also combines your interest in there. So, if you have those four tools going for you, you're going to be doing really well.So that's, yeah, that's a sense of autonomy and to help you. So, there's another presenter at this conference, Sally Gore. Karin and I went to her website and took a look at her blog, and she recommended some books from last year. And one of the books was Dear Data. And it was two people going back and forth sharing data that they collected throughout the day. So, I took this first one. What's My Daily Intake. It is something very simple of just seeing how much water did I drink? I thought, well, now I'm not just going to do water. What else? The drinks are added to the list as the week went on. And so, I can look at that and I can see some interesting things. And, you know, collecting data, you can make a more complex and contain more information, such as what Karen does.Using the same book, I used this as a you know, I use the book as a jumping off point, I just chose to map my, my reading for the month of January and created my own symbols for the different things. And so, I have my little books there. But and, you know, is it a series was it a fantastic fantasy, a contemporary was it hot? Mainly because it's reading adult scorchers. And did I give it five stars or not? So, when I'm reading my, my adult for fun books, you know, I'm you know, I don't I don't it's like I don't eat a lot. I just, just skim it and go. But anyway, so that was genie work. So there again, just visual. The thing is that you can do so much with data representation and you can use anything and any kind of style. And the book is You'll See down here, the Dear Data is the explanation of the 52 weeks of friendship through postcards, they each had a prompt that they did for the week, and then they mailed each other the postcards so they could see each other’s the way they represented the data. They explained how to read it. And it's just fascinating. But then they also came out with observe, collect, draw, and it's a visual journal. And what's great about this one is it gives you prompts, give you some ideas of what to collect and ways for you to represent that data. So, I love it because it's visual. And so, it's just it was so useful and just it just interesting to read. So, definitely give Sally Gore thank you if you attend the next session and let her know that that we at least have found her book, her recommendation, very useful. OK.All right, so go back a little bit more foundational theory on this is that you're familiar with word clouds. So, created one using a bunch of words from scratch, noting. And then in the book.Yeah, almost.There we go. Horsley, right? Right. An Unlimited Memory that every word is a picture drawn with letters in every word can conjure up an image that can be drawn and pictures register very quickly in the brain. And I find that, that's very true and that you don't have to be a great artist to get for that image to be meaningful to you.I also use it and I'm trying to. Anyway, I'm working out a way to, to share this a little bit more, but I believe that planning, keeping a calendar is so important for those of us who are unorganized or bad with time management, just multiple reasons it can be helpful. But incorporating your own quick drawings, your own doodles in with your calendar is a great way then to help with memory, to help you remember what you're supposed to be doing for the day. And so, here's an example of something I did a couple of months ago with my to do list. You can tell it was definitely not a transparent squash whenever that happened. I don't know what Sunday the 30th this was, but anyway, I did pack, I had to drive and then I was planning. And anyway, so I used doodles in my calendar as well. And that's how I tell people to maybe get started too, because there's things that you do every day. Those are the things that you can use for your quick drawings that you start with, because if it's something you're doing multiple times a week or daily, it's going to be something you're going to draw a lot. So, it can be something you start with learning how to doodle or whatever.And so next, we have dual coding theory. Holly.Sure. Well, OK, so this is what, where sketch noting really started with, was with Mike Rohde. And then there's also Sonny Brown, which I don't have her stuff here. But Mike Rohde brought in Allan Paivio's dual coding theory that was developed back in 1970s and used it to demonstrate how sketch noting could be very important for helping you to remember things. And so, you take a picture and you take words. And if you put those two things together, you have non-verbal processing and verbal processing. So now, you have two ways that, that information is going in to help develop your knowledge. And so, it was, you know, just excellent. And this is, this is what some of the stuff that Dr. Mary Ann Bell introduced us to in the beginning and his book that he originally came out with is the Sketch Note Handbook. And it's still very popular for those in the sketch knitting, sketch noting world.He's a business guy, like a what is it, the UX or whatever people that design, I guess, programs design website, how they have to deal with like what are those called wireframes, you know, where they, he's that kind of guy. And so that really helps that kind of profession a lot. They use images a lot to help how the flow of a website is going to go. And so, he really kind of worked that in. But he also does it at conferences and, and in business world. And it's fascinating. So as what he says with that dual coding theory, whenever you attach that image that makes it stay in your brain more and there's more research that backs that up as well. So, attaching an image to what you're learning will help it attach to something else in your brain and stay. It helps with that recognition, your comprehension and, and memory.Right, so the big thing that we've been hearing in education world is, is creativity, you know, for a long time it was higher order, thinking skills and then creativity has come in and you see it in a lot of journals and excuse me and other things that you can read books such as Psychology in the Classroom. And so, what I found interesting in here, it was related to creativity and the definition that's provided in it. The definition is the ability to create something that is useful or entertaining involving a rearrangement of existing parts or concepts. It's not a random process. And so, when you look at somebody else's sketch, know when they've done something and you're looking at the page, you may not pick up on exactly what they're thinking, but you can start to see that arrangement. And you can you know, there'll be arrows drawn sometimes to help you decide, to help them explain what they're learning. And that's very important when you're looking at other people's work and you want to be able to talk about your own work and share it as well so you can grow a creativity. I mean, the bullet points here basically talk about that, the more you know and retrieve from memory, the more you're able to tackle problems using creativity. And it involves us making connections, which we've mentioned several times. And then also you can make just making connections but associations.And that helps with learning and can provide avenues where people haven't thought of things before. Just really open up, you know, your world as you're doing sketch noting. So, don't be confined and think that there's only one way to do it or there's only one solution to the problem and use that, that motivation that you have inside you, that, that makes you interested to want to learn about something and use that to, to help you with your sketch noting.And even if it's intrinsic motivation, so Holly just said motivate you to learn about something that you're interested in? Definitely, definitely do that. However, even if it's a task you're given or an assignment you're given or a book study you're having to do for work, whatever it is may not be something you chose.However, those two last bullet marks, creative tasks should have more than one possible solution and terms of motivation leads to successful creative thinking, especially when choice and freedom is allowed. If you're using sketch noting to help you with the learning or to respond to these things that you're doing, that's right there those things. You get the choice in the freedom of how to respond, plus you get the creative task. Definitely, your schedule has more than one possible solution because it's, however, you're doing it. So, definitely, that's the case.So three, those, you're looking at three square pictures there. Sketch noting or doing something that you're interested in and using visuals to represent what you're learning can be done on anything. So, on the far left, it's a recipe. And there are a lot of people. And even if you can go online and search for sketch note recipes, or I think they're even called like sketch a like they've like blended the word, there is even a business devoted for really, really cool.They're awesome. Anyway, mine's super, super easy jiffy cornbread, corn casserole, and mind their doodles. I'm not an artist, I'm a doodler. Just that's the way it is. The middle thing is from a book, and that's how I respond mostly to my books, is I do sketch notes, I'll sketch something about the characters that I remember, I'll sketch something, about something, a major emotional I'll add a quote in there. But I find that when I do a sketch note from a book I'm reading. I can recall the book so much better even years after I've read it, then if I don't. I'm a bad person with character names, I will get sometimes settings or situations confused because I read a lot, but if I do the sketch about it, man, it stays with me.And then, heck, Iguana Awareness Day was this day that I did this sketch note. And so now I can remember a little bit more about an iguana because of my sketch note. So anyway, they can do, you can do a sketch not about anything. Paula and I were driving once and we were in the, in the valley of, of Texas and the Rio Grande Valley and we could not find a hotel room for anything because we were, we were visiting students. And Holly, why couldn't we find a hotel room?Because Barry Manilow was there.Barry Manilow was in the area. And I tell you what, they must like him there because we couldn't find a room. So, I did a sketch note about Barry Manilow that evening because now we decided to learn about him a little bit. And so, on mine, I have a Band-Aid because did you know that Barry Manilow wrote, I am stuck on bad days and days to come. And so now I know that he also did something with Pepsi, did something with McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken. I learned all kinds of things. And you can do a sketch note about anything. OK, next.Ok, so that's true, so I thought I would go on a journey early on in the day that my sketch noting to see things, just try to notice things. Being somewhat of a researcher, I want to find out stuff, right? So, I did a self-study survey and I asked myself two questions as I was doing it. And so, I wanted to look at what were the obstacles that was a problem with when I did a sketch of that particular day. And then I'd go in and I would plug- in. And so, you have to remember that I work with paper mainly, and I did with this when I was doing this, I was just on paper. And so, what I found, one of the problems I had and, and Karen even knows when we went to a conference and I was sketch noting a session in life to demonstrate it is that I have trouble. I want to fill up the page. I fill that need. But if there's not that much information, then I could leave half of the page blank. And so that organization is a little bit more difficult on paper if you don't know the, the content that's coming. So, if you have no prep or anything like that, you can't really plan out your organization, but you can still make those connections and you can still create them. And so, I thought that was really interesting. And then I realized very early on, visual vocabulary is very important. And it showed up quite a few times in the self-studies that I needed in the more visual vocabulary. They could just call in the moment and not have to look it up. And it's not hard to look it up. But if you're in the moment sketch noting life, that that stuff is going to be very important. And then there's some other things that you can also hear in just a few minutes that it's good that you already have something in your mind for certain terms and what it can apply to because it doesn't slow you down.You're not trying to think about how to draw something. And then the other thing that is probably most common is people think about what, what, what do you use that if you're using paper, you know, what kind of using pencil you use can marker? What are you using? They want to know. So, I tried out different types of material and I found that I learned that certain things work together and then the others don't. And it's frustrating when you're, you're drawing and taking notes and stuff on your hands, smears the page. So, you've got to test out some of the tools that you might use to do your scheduler. Now, that's not necessarily a problem when you use Procreate like Karen does.Yeah, I do prefer digital. I do prefer digital. So visual vocabulary super important just because, as Holly mentioned, it is nice because if you have something quick in your head for like, OK, so my example I always go to is there on the office icons. If you see that on the left, there's a clock down there in the bottom right of that office icons picture. Whenever I want to sketch about time or clock or, or appointment or something. I always that's my go-to clock. Every time that comes up, that's what I use because I associate that with time. An appointment, a deadline. OK, that's what it goes for.Now, I have never owned a clock like that in my life. I've never had the one to go to tic, tic, tic. I don't have that clock. But in my head, that's what a clock is to me for that purpose. So, I have one in my head. I can draw it quickly because I've drawn it a lot, a lot of times, and because I've drawn it over and over and over again, because I stick to that clock, muscle memory is built. Your hand becomes better at knowing where to draw, done it over and over and over again, and you'll see in just a little bit about progress and what practice does.Technology, those are the top, top thing right under the tech part of the technology, that's my computer. And that remind Mac that's on my desk, it's just you know, it's just a big monitor with a base there. That's my computer. And that's what I do. And then I always do the battery like that on the bottom, you know, with the four little blocks, because that's very easy to see. If I'm tired, I can draw that battery and only have like one red square drawn at the bottom, like your battery's low. However, if I feel great for the day, what would I do instead? All four of them colored in probably green. So just use the things that we know around us that's like your phone, you know, use those type of things for your. Yeah, for what you're going to draw.Yeah, and before you advance, take a look real quick and see the different shapes that you can see in there and how easy are, you know, how to draw those shapes up. But you see rectangles, circles, lines, squares. Once you start putting those together to make your, rebuild your visual vocabulary with different images, it'll go really quick for you as you sketch note. Right, it's very true.Yes, yes, it does. Now, I'm going to push that well, OK, there we go. All right, so. The two schedules that you're seeing there, that's before I moved to the iPad, that's when I was on paper still and this is like a week or so after we first learned about it.So, but, I've got some color because Holly and I learned very quickly that we needed some color because all the light we did distinguish just from our eyes for quickly being able to see stuff. So, color is definitely a plus. So, I definitely have color. However, Holly, if you're like this, what would you say is my problem right here on, on sketch note? What do I have too much of?You have a lot of text. That I'm still relying on, text that I hadn't had enough practice yet. It comes so don't be discouraged if you're doing a lot of text at first, because I promise you that will change. You saw my books, my recipe, and my iguana. It will change, it becomes better, practice makes progress, that's what I say. I never say practice makes perfect because there is not a chance, I will ever be perfect about it. It's not going to happen, but it will be progress. And so, this was very early. But you now see what we do now. It's just way different. So, don't be discouraged if you have to have text first. You even saw that on, on Dr. Weimar's, the first.My attempt at live scheduling became a page full of writing with a few images included side. See that's we all have that at the beginning and that just does change.Ok, now, Dr. Weimar.So then also with that, I had reflections when I was looking at what I was doing, and it was very interesting. I found out that it was important to look at what other people were doing and that, that really helped. It helped with the organization, gave me ideas like, oh, that's a great icon I can use for whatever I might have been looking for something in building that visual vocabulary. So and these are easy things for you to do. So, such is let's see, well, other things that I notice in the reflection, which is that you have to practice and what an emotion that I came up with it on one particular day was anger. And so how do you, how you do that? How do you make, like a stick figure, look angry if you're trying to sketch, note that out really quick.And so, I thought about it for a while and thought, well, you know, if I'm really angry, I might put my hands on my hips and I have my foot tapping. And so just by going through that, I was able to start developing more. But it was the practice. It really was the practice. The more that I did it, the easier it got. And that was so important. And then I was able to start getting a little bit more organized. But arrows and lines making connections work all the time. If I didn't get it set up the way that it was making me to me at that time. But yeah, practice, practice, practice.It is so helpful and I'm so glad that Dr. Weimar brought up the fact of looking at other people's work, that does not mean you're cheating. And she has the noun project listed on this reflection, the noun project, a great website, because it's a website where people have just added and sent in and uploaded different icons for things, icons or very simple images of common things that we use. And so, if I wanted to type in book, because I for the life of me, in my mind at this moment, I cannot picture how to draw a book. Go to the noun project and if you have several, several options. Using reference, a reference image to help you draw something or get the idea of how to draw something is not cheating. We're not artists, but even if we were professional artists use reference all the time when they're drawing or painting or whatever, so don't feel like you're cheating if you have to look up how to draw a water pitcher. You know, I do it, we do it all the time. Both of us have to look for reference.Practice makes progress.I love Bob's Burgers, the, the cartoon Bob's Burgers. It cracks me up, but here's little Louise Belcher and she's quite an interesting character.And so, one of my favorite lines for her is I smell fear on you.And so, I did the quote in December 2016. To me, when I did that in December 2016, it was fantastic. Thrilled, thrilled, thrilled with how it turned out. Well, so I did it again because there was this thing online where it says, like a I forget what it was called, a redo or something. It was a challenge where you found something of your old stuff, and you redid it. Well, I did it in June of 2018. And so, there's my middle one, I'm much better, I thought, and then I did it again January 2019 and then there it's just different now.If I did it today, it would look different again, because you change what you're doing each time because you learn new things there again, your muscle memory is better. Your control over your device that you're using, whether it be pen, pencil, stylus is better and it just changes and grows as you do.One way to start. And visual vocabulary really is the place to start because you can practice visual vocabulary, sitting, watching TV at night or in the morning with your coffee, because you just to say, OK, today I'm going to draw different arrows and just try different. Today I'm going to draw flowers, draw some different flowers. Today I'm going to draw pencils. Draw different kinds of pencils or facial expressions, like Dr. Weimar said, angry.I usually I do, think of our emoticons on our, our emojis, whatever, on our phones. Look at some of those and see how they represent anger, if you just deal with eyebrows, that will be something that will help you with anger, surprise, happy, sad, tired. It's amazing what you can do with just eyebrows and eyes. And I don't draw a person. I don't ever draw Louise like that on my sketch notes. My people are sick people, and if I need a face, I just draw a circle with the facial expression because that's all I need to get the idea across for what I'm thinking about or learning about at that moment. Remember, I'm not creating a memory tool for me. All right.Thank you. For using images and stuff. There's also Pinterest is a great place where people post and Instagram where they post their, their drawings and image and how they capture different emotions and using stick figures or being people and things like that.So, what I ended up doing is went back, how could I make that To-Do list for that day that it showed before that that I used last week, and this is what I did. Now I'm using Procreate here, so I'm able to do it rather quickly and I don't have to have any tools with me other than an iPad pro and my Apple pencil. And so that part worked out well. And so, you can say now to make trail mix, all I have to do is mix those things together. When I'm at Target, I look at that box and I look at that bottle and I can look in my cart and say, yep, I got them. Color helps. It really does help me to do things much more quickly, especially if there's a lot of noise around me or whatever. And so that's what I found even for my bit, my longer list going to the grocery store. So, I believe images are an important part. We see them all over the place. They are ways that help us communicate.And so, you can look at Karin's Walmart list and Karin, you want to talk about that at all?Right. It's just like what Holly said. Well, and like we've said before, attaching an image with a word or something, if you're thinking about increases it so much and the fact that I did cheddar cheese, now I did that cheddar cheese like that, because when I go buy cheddar cheese at Wal-Mart, I get the four-pound block. And so, it looks just like that. OK, so what's the big block? And so that I really like cheese. So anyway, that's, that helps me remember what I need because I have, think about how many times you're thinking about something.You're thinking about the words when you're making your list, you draw it, you write on it, you look at it. It's the amazing amount of increased time that you're spending with this list. Just because I'm doodling, really has. You're thinking about it so much more. So, it just sticks into your brain so much better in research as we showed, shows that. So, if somebody says, why are you drawing during this meeting, don't let them shame you because you're drawing, because there is brain research behind you doing it that way. So that's why we always say don't tell kids. They have to put everything away, you know, when they're in the classroom. If those kids need some of those visual learners, they may need to be drawing images along with what you're talking to them about, so that's why we caution people, you know, teachers to say, you know, put everything away. Well, some people pay attention better if they're doodling during a lesson or a meeting. I'm one of those people, I need to do that, or else I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat when I get home.Ok, and that's the you. And then we have a list of references there.Yeah. These are the things that were referenced throughout the presentation.And Dr. Weimar put this together, just so you guys know, Microsoft sway very user-friendly tool and fun and pleasant to look at. So.All right, Holly and Karin, thank you so much, this was fantastic, I got so much out of it myself. I'm super excited to get more active with sketch noting and I just found it inspiring. So, I'm sure all our attendees did as well. We had some questions already come into the chat box and I'm going to ask if people have other questions, if you'd please also enter them in the Q&A. One of our first questions is about digital drawing. And could you speak some more to how you go about digital drawing and in different formats?Ok, OK, so all right, so I started Dr. Weimar and I both talked about using Procreate today, Procreate is an app. You do have to pay for it.It's not that expensive, but you have to pay for it. But that's the app we use, or I use mostly. Dr. Weimar has played with other ones as well. And I have to. But that's just my go-to. And we also use the Apple Pencil. You don't have to have those in order to do digital drawing, though. You can use any other app. There are some out there that are free and one that I would recommend would be Autodesk Sketchbook is the name of a free one that I started out with. It's available on all platforms. It's free and you can use any stylus that you need to with any tablet, so. That is the way to go, what I like about digital drawing is I can very easily erase, I can move things around, I can incorporate color immediately, I can change things sizes if I need to. And so, it's just, it's convenient for me. If there's a specific thing about digital drawing, please put that in the chat or and ask that if it's something specific beyond the tools, I guess.Great. Thank you. So, you just actually answered a couple of the other questions, which was whether it's free. So, you answered that and also about some other what you could do on Windows or a non-Mac. So, thank you for all that helpful information. And I just my daughter got really into digital drawing this year and there's classes you can take at different virtual camps and museums now, which are it's an incredible opportunity, I think, during the pandemic to take these virtual classes that are available.And I promise you, there will be there are things on YouTube you can go watch that will help teach you these things as well. Definitely YouTube. There's going to be doodling tutorials from authors and illustrators as well as how to sketch note and how to just do different things with sketch noting. So definitely explore YouTube. That's free too. Very helpful tip.Absolutely. A question about how do you miss content being shared because you're spending more time on the drawings and less time focusing on the information being presented?No, that's, that's when at the beginning, you see, I have a lot of characters talking about having a lot of text, I did the same thing. And then or if I as I'm moving along, you know, it's like I know how to draw this. I mess up. There might be hey, and I just write the word next to it and keep on going. So, but it takes that practice and that's what helped. So, in the beginning, that's a little bit of a struggle. But if you practice, you know, you'll, you'll get it and you'll move much more smoothly. There's a vocabulary.Like Dr. Weimar said, if it's something that's moving on, write it down and move on with the text and be done, just, you know, if it's something that you know, but, you know, there's a lot of downtime and some presentations that, that's going along and chitchat back and forth maybe or they're on to something you're not quite as interested in. That's when you finish your other things and you just keep finishing your sketch note that you've got going on and then something else is going on that it's interesting, that's when you pick back up and do something new again.We have a question about how sketch noting might compare to bullet journaling is do you view one of those to be easier? Which, which how would you compare the learning curve for bullet journaling or sketch noting? Bullet journaling is in and of itself, it's just text and it's different. There's it's a very simple way of keeping track of your lists and your tasks and moving them from day to day and things like that. Sketch noting truly incorporates the images. Now early, I mean, I'm talking true bullet journaling, and that's pretty much just text. Now, if people are doing a hybrid form of that of their own kind of digital journaling or not even digital journaling. They can be incorporating text in any way that they want to, and they can go together seamlessly. So as far as bullet journaling, if there's a, if there's a clarifying question, please put it in there. But, Holly, what do you have anything to add about the bullet journaling as well?The connection I can see there easily would be the, from the dear data where we did our we were tracking what we were doing in a week, that something that you see commonly in bullet journaling. And we used visuals for that. And I've seen a lot of that, too, especially on Pinterest. So, yeah.We have a question, a statement question, if I were a person who knew how to do sketch noting, well, what do my sketch notes look like? And I ask because an example of something so immediately experienced will help me visualize better.Am I still sharing my screen?Yes.Did this bring up a new tab for you, do you see, or you still just see the other one?Fine. It says good afternoon, Karin. All right, all right, so I'm going to go to Google Images just flat-out Google Images, there is no one right the sketch note. But if you want to see some examples of sketch noting, here you go, so there are so many different kinds, so many different. Some people use color. Some people use black and white. Some people only use one accented color. It's just, like I said, absolutely no one right way to do it. It's how it works for you. But yeah, definitely explore. Look at pictures on, on, on Google. Or Pinterest or YouTube. I mean, they're everywhere.They are all different topics.Yep, yep, even Barry Manilow. I even did the anatomy of my purse one day because I had to clean out my purse. It's after Holly and I had gone through the airport for some reason, and I got stopped at security at the buzzer because I had too much change in my purse. And so, it flagged me. And so, the ladies like you need to clean this up before you come back through. So, I had to clean out my purse once I got to our hotel and took all my change through it in a Wal-Mart sack and threw it my suitcase. While I was in there. I got all my change at the bottom; I had some crumpled-up receipts in there. You know, it can be anything, just to practice writing.Yep. That's the important part. Yeah.So, we have a question about the best way to promote this to families is do you have any specific wording for how to promote sketch noting to families?Like something they might more find useful instead of saying sketch noting, you know, so you could say visual notetaking. OK, I think that that would be because they're going to hear notetaking, you know what that means immediately. And so visual will be the ad part because this is definitely this is visual notetaking as well as a sketch noting. So, I would go with that if you're going to talk to families. What do you think?Oh, no, I agree. Yeah, you know, your family's better than we do, so I would approach it from an interest that they might have, and you could do an introduction to using visual notetaking or sketch notes on that topic.So we have a couple of questions about what notebook's you would suggest using I actually bought this one, this Moleskine notebook, and I'm looking forward to getting started on my sketch noting soon. Do you have any particular supplies that you recommend?I will use any type of, of notebook that's around or that I think is pretty at the time when I'm getting ready to start something new. But if I'm using, if I'm using more like a marker or something that will bleed through, I would choose the Moleskine. But there's some other stores like I don't know if you're familiar with Michael's or not, they have a book that's about little less than I think it's less than six dollars. That is about the same size as a Moleskine and has just as many pages. And I'm able to use some of my markers on that so it doesn't bleed through.It's the artist's loft? Yes, artist loft, I think.It's five bucks apiece.They've gone up a little bit there over five now. Yeah.The covid. I haven't been out in public.But those are nice and their online pages, but a spiral notebook even with lines and it will work. Yeah, I've done that as well. Especially if you're using a ballpoint pen. Just pens. The only thing that's going to decide what you need to use is the tool you're using. Like Dr. Weimar said, if we used, we had some. We like the bold black marker, not markers, ink pens. They're bold, though. I forget sight, Signo, S I G N O, anyway, but they are thick and so they would bleed through a page if you're not careful.Another good brand is our R H O D I A, how you say it Rhodia maybe R H O D I A. Their pages are very good thickness wise, but I like the Moleskine at Artist Loft. Yeah, we use it all. We use it all.And think about the size.Yeah.The size, like if I'm at a conference like when we were sketch noting and demonstrating it, I used a really big pad and I don't use that very often. And when I use more like the most unties that you build up an inch out or something that's more square, even smaller.Wal-Mart has a brand now. It's called Exceed, I believe it's Exceed, E X, well how you spell exceed, E X C E E D, maybe, but they have it. It's a nice bright it's a nice size too, and they are cheap as well. So, Wal-Mart has, has an option to get cheap.And if you go by the kids’ section and look at what Crayolas put out there, supporting a lot of different mediums to help and encourage and there will be kick all of our off brands, I should say. Right next to it, that might be cheaper to buy paper and do it in that. Right. So, it's your preference and what you want to do.Thank you so much for all those helpful tips about supplies. We have a question about how do you store or organize your sketch notes?Well, Karin can tackle the digital world.Minor images and so what I have done a lot is I have saved them in its own album by month, really is, is what I have mostly done. I also have put them on like an Instagram. I did one where I did a sketch note every day for a year. And so, I did an Instagram for that three hundred sixty five days of sketch notes.And so that's I go back to that a lot. I go back to my Instagram, that one, and I go, OK, I know I did one about Uncle Sam and so I can scroll through there really quick, and I'll be able to find it. So, I've been able to really use that as reference. You can also create yourself a Tumblr or something just for these, because then you can add tags and then you just go back to it and you type in your tag and say Holiday and it'll pop it up for you just like that. So, you know, with the way our technology is nowadays, if you do a digital one and you save it on your phone, you could upload it to Tumblr from your phone and be done. Now, paper, pencil, that would be a Holly option or Holly choice.So, what I do is I usually the, I refer to him as journals, what I'm using because about two hundred pages. So, I leave the first four pages blank so that would be front and back would be two and then do another sheet like that and then I'll go. As I'm going along, I can include a table of contents and what page to find it on and do that either. But it makes it really easy for me to locate things.We have a question. Do you find that vocabulary's easier to recall when they are visually representative of actual objects or shorthand, for example, digital equals DEGE, Star Search, double image.Oh, interesting.No, I don't. OK. So, I would not I don't think that I would ever go to like using referencing digital with a dig for shovel, my mind wouldn't make that connection. So that would not be the way my mind would, would connect to thing. If I was doing digital, I would more likely draw a computer, I would draw a tablet, I would draw some type of whatever in, in the actual at the time of what the digital would mean, it was an e-book. I would have I would do more like a tablet or computer or something rather than that.And another question is, does it matter which words they represent individually, do they need to be more content rich words or images to increase synthesis of content?Absolutely not.Right.In fact, one thing you can do, there's a big thing out there, too, or not a big thing, something that is that the big, big sketch noters who actually do it for conferences and help people, companies plan like their, their five-year plans, those people are called like are visual facilitators. You can look up that term and see what those people do.But it's really fascinating. But what they do is they, they do visual metaphors. And so that's totally not you would not do it in a very ad. It's not an abstract. I'm sorry, it's not a concrete concept, really, but they still do it so beautifully. And so, think about those visual metaphors, like how would you represent growth? You know, how would you represent bravery? You know, things like that. So, it does not have to be those concrete images that deal directly with the content. It can be the feeling of it. It can be whatever you're thinking about it at the time that makes you even if it's not directly in the speech. But you're thinking about something learned last week. So, it's just. No, however, your brain makes the connections.So, I have a question. I'm wondering if you have any tips to help librarians and teachers to encourage students to give sketch noting a try who maybe feeling like they're not good at drawing or maybe someone told them they're not good at drawing. What are some ways to kind of encourage students to give this a try if they're feeling like they might just not be good at it?I have an answer: demonstrate it for them and acknowledge that you make mistakes and that my drawings may not mean anything to you. But, you know, like if I draw a dog and it looks kind of bubbly, you know, because I've used circles for everything or ovals, and then I sit there and say, that's my representation of a dog. I know what it is. So, nobody's going to grade them on what they're drawing. What they really want to know is, do you understand the content and what you took your notes for?So, what you need to do, too, is you have to make sure you don't do it for one week and then you never talk about it again, because that's not going to happen. If you are a teacher in the classroom, you need to always have the markers in the paper out and you need to have that as an option. Every time they do anything, it has to become a habit. It has to become muscle memory to them. So, have it always there as an option for them to do. And they need to practice, just like you need to practice.And just like Dr. Weimar said, you have to be brave enough to do it in front of them. You have to be the kind of person that's going to laugh at your dog when you draw it because it might not look like a dog at all. But that doesn't matter. You write the word dog next to it and you'll remember it's a dog when you come back to it. Just you just have to encourage it all the time.It's a very helpful. Thank you so much. So, Holly and Karin, thank you so much for your delightful presentations. I got so much out of this and I'm sure everyone who attended did as well. I'd also like to thank April Mazza for helping today with tech support and publicity for this webinar. I hope you will all join us on Tuesday, April 6th, at three p.m. for our next webinar in the series Sketchnoting: Remember What You've Learned, presented by Sally Gore from the UMass Medical School Library. It's just we're going to all be attending so many virtual conferences and it will be a great fun thing to add to our experience. So, I put the links to register in the chat. I'll be following up in the, the follow up email will be an evaluation. And I'd be so grateful if you would complete the evaluation of this webinar. So, I hope to see you on April 6th. And thank you again to Holly and Karin. And thank you, everyone, for joining us today. This concludes our webinar. ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download