Visual Thinking: How to Create Sketchnotes to Capture and Synthesize Content
Catherine Madden, Information Designer, Artist, and Doodler
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About the Class
1:38 -
Class Project
1:26 -
What are Sketchnotes? Why should we do them?
1:48 -
All About Handwriting
12:14 -
Basic Drawing Techniques
12:22 -
Listening and Capturing Content
8:26 -
Bringing it All Together
4:39 -
Paper App Features for Sketchnoting
4:42 -
Digital Sketchnotes Demonstration
16:35 -
Closing Thoughts
2:32
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About This Class
Join data designer and doodler Catherine Madden for a one hour class demonstrating techniques for creatively and visually summarizing content in a way that helps you process and retain the information. If you have been in a classroom, on a conference call, or watched a TED talk that has interesting content, but you can’t seem to remember the key points, visual note taking (also known as sketchnoting) can open up your mind in new and exciting ways.
This class doesn't require any special materials, but we do walk through ways to create digital sketchnotes using the Paper app by FiftyThree for iPad.
For those of you looking for some of the articles, websites, or books I reference in the class, you can find them here!
Here is the digital sketchnote I reference briefly in the intro section:
Articles:
- How Doodling Can Help You Get Ahead at Work
- Taking Notes: Is The Pen Still Mightier Than the Keyboard?
- The Power of Doodling: How Doodles Can Lead to Great Ideas
- Making Learning Visible: Doodling Helps Memories Stick
- Say It With Stick Figures: Your Crude Drawings Are More Effective Than PowerPoint
Videos:
- Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
- Matt Cutts: Try Something New for 30 Days
Websites:
- Sketchnote Army + Mike Rohde
- Eva Lotta Lamm (Sketchnote Extraordinare)
- Visual Thinking Definition
Books:
- Sunni Brown's Doodle Revolution
- Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist Journal
Social Posts (#snday2016)
240 of 245 students recommendSee All
I really liked this class - the last two sections on Digital note-taking were less useful for me. but I really enjoyed the sections on drawing & handwriting, it was a great companion to the Sketchnote Handbook.
This is was amazing. You made this accessible. The fear of drawing is something I run into all the time when I teach. One thing I’d like to add is that going over your notes and refining them, I believe is a way of taking in the information on a deeper level and is an important part of processing. So doodle away!
Karen Dawn
Creative Soulpreneur and Journal Artist
Very interesting course! thank you
