This document discusses sketchnoting in education. It begins with an introduction that defines sketchnoting and outlines its benefits for learning. These include appealing to different learning styles, encouraging creativity, and helping students focus and retain information better than laptop notetaking. The rest of the document provides tips and examples for how to get started with sketchnoting, including different paper and digital tools, techniques for drawing icons, dividers, frames, connectors, fonts, and shading. It concludes by listing applications of sketchnoting for various classroom activities and sharing additional resources on using this visual notetaking method.

1. Sketchnoting
in
Education

2. District lead secondary
librarian, Northwest High
School
2003-present
Email: nbates@nisdtx.org
Twitter: @yabooksandmore
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3. Hello!Naomi Bates
Lead secondary librarian, NISD
Northwest High School
Email: nbates@nisdtx.org
Twitter: @yabooksandmore

4. 1.
What is Sketchnoting

5. Sketchnotes are rich
visual notes created
from a mix of
handwriting,
drawings, hand-
drawn typography,
shapes, and visual
elements like arrows,
boxes, and lines
(definition from Mike
Rohde,
The Sketchnote Hand
book).

8. 2.
Why Sketchnote

9. Connects images w/info
Appeals to different
learning styles
Encourages creativity

10. longhand notetakers
outperformed laptop
notetakers on measures
of conceptual understand
and long-term factual
recall.

11. 3.
mindshift

12. Attention span is
heightened
Done intermittently
for notetaking or
projects
It isn’t doodling
(repetitious)
Meant for broader
information
Impacts key
information
Give your notes to
the class, allow them
to transcribe how
they like

13. 4.
How to begin

16. Paper 53
Adobe Draw
Flip Ink
Notes HD

17. 5.
icons

18. Practice!
person clock laptop
toolpathpencil

19. 6.
dividers

20. Practice!
arrow leaf line with wingdings
dotted linecurly linesfeather

21. 7.
frames

22. Practice!
Picture frame banner paper
Speech bubbleNotebook coverShadow box

23. 8.
connectors

24. Practice!

25. 9.
Fonts

26. All types, practice a few….

27. 10.
shading

28. Practice!
Use color!
Think of sun and shadows
Highlight
Always use darker color under
lighter one

29. Vocabulary
Overview/review
Book report option
Poster alternative
Peer teaching
Presentations
Movie synopsis
Bulletin Board showoff

30. You’re curious…that’s the first spark
You want to try it. Kids will know it’s something you
are forced to do
You’d like examples of when to find time to do it…

31. Educator’s Guide:
Sketchnotes for Visual
Note Taking
http://www.simplek12.com/brig
htsparktravel/sketchnotes-in-
the-classroom/
Deliberate Doodling:
Visualizing Course
Concepts with
Sketchnotes
http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-
web/academics/teaching/sket
chnotes.pdf
Ted Talks: Doodles, Unite!
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=7fx0QcHyrFkcourage.
Why Use Sketchnotes in
the Classroom?
http://derekbruff.org/?p=2902
The Benefits of Using
Doodling and Sketchnotes
in the Classroom
http://www.edweek.org/tm/art
icles/2016/01/04/the-benefits-
of-using-doodling-and-
sketchnotes.html?qs=benefits+
of+using+doodling
6 Ways To Get
Students Engaged in
Sketchnotes
http://www.jennyknappen
berger.com/6-ways-to-
get-students-engaged-
with-sketchnotes/

32. THANKS!Any questions?
You can find me at @yabooksandmore & nbates@nisdtx.org
Presentation can be found at: www.naomibates.blogspot.com

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