Visual Notetaking using an iPad Sketchnotes are visual notes that incorporate words, lines, shapes, color, and simple drawings. You do not need to be an artist to sketchnote! This session will share the why and how to get started with creating digital sketchnotes using an iPad, along with the presenter’s personal journey with taking visual notes. An overview of the basic elements, techniques, apps, and styluses will be given, along with examples/lessons from the presenter and students.

1. tinyurl.com/ipadsketchnotes

2. Creative

3. tinyurl.com/ipadsketchnotes
Twitter: @karlyb

6. Beginnings:
Link to Pinterest
Brad
Ovenell-Carter

8. My First Sketchnote
link to my sketchnotes

9. Sermons

10. Sermons

11. Podcasts

12. Conferences

13. Conferences

14. Book Quotes

15. Meetings

18. via Sunni Brown

19. Why?

21. Sketchnotes are
fun to
“REVISIT” - helps
them
STICK!

23. Link
Sketchnote Handbook/Workbook
by Mike Rohde

24. Link to my resources

25. Link to video

26. Pencil (link) - my current favorite stylus

27. Linktec Apex Fine
Point Stylus
(link)
(Bluetooth, wonderful
thin point, but jagged
diagonal lines if you
draw too slowly.)

28. Other Stylus Tools
‣Inexpensive stylus - for student use
‣Adonit Jot Pro ($29.99) - fine point
‣Sensu Brush ($39.00) - iPad brush
Go search for
pens with stylus
tips in the
vendor areas!

29. My Sketchnote App
Essential Features:
Realistic tool simulation: marker, pen, pencil,
crayon, watercolor
Ability to customize tool width and
transparency
Easy zoom in for details, easy undo
Background grid/lines and colors
Type in text
Insert photos
For advanced users:
Layers
Lasso or resize tool
Paint over/under tool
Tool to fill shapes

30. Link to App Pros/Cons
Tayasui Sketches (free/paid)

31. Tayasui
Sketches
Example

32. SketchbookX(free/pro)
Link to App Pros/Cons

33. Sketchbook
Pro Example

34. Link to App Pros/Cons
Paper53 (free!)
All tools
are
now FREE!

35. Paper53
Example

36. Flipink (paid)
Link to App Pros/Cons

37. Flipink
Example

38. Link to App Pros/Cons
Procreate (paid)

39. Procreate
Example

40. Sketchnotes for Learning
Student
examples with Flipink app

41. Student Projects: Sermons (middle school)

46. I listen better when
I draw.
It’s so easy to
focus…your
attention.
Taking
sketchnotes…
helped my
understanding
because I had to
visualize what he
was talking about to
draw it.

47. Student Projects: Discovery Streaming video (sixth grade)

51. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)

52. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)

53. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)

56. Student Projects: Fiction Books/Stories (middle school)

58. Student Projects: Social Studies (middle school)

59. Student Projects: Bible (middle school)

61. Educator Example: Book Study (Sherri Clemons)

63. Hybrid Sketchnotes:
Drawing & _____________
Audio: Fotobabble
Audio & Annotation: Explain
Everything, Educreations
Linked Sketchnotes: Thinglink
eBooks: Book Creator - add audio
and additional text, publish
Animated Video Narrator: Tellagami
Multimedia: combine in iMovie, add
audio, music, titles
Other ideas?

64. Prepare titles in
advance/make templates

65. Helpful trick:
grid/zoom in and out
Note: you can
turn the grid
off when you are
done

66. Helpful
trick:
over/
under
drawing

67. Use pen/notebook/phone
camera if things go
too fast!

68. Use two steps:
do text live
do graphics later
(Gives time to
reflect on
what was heard
and learned.)

69. Focus on what resonates
with YOU!!
(not everything!)

70. Google
“clipart”
or use Noun
Project site
on phone
while
working on
iPad

71. Fill empty space with large text/pictures

72. Use Layers to Trace
(I used
Procreate app
to export this
drawing process
as a video)

77. Sketchnotes into Video
Procreate, iMovie, Garageband

79. tinyurl.com/ipadsketchnotes
Twitter: @karlyb