Sketchnoting in Education

Sketchnoting, in its purest form, is creating a personal visual story as one is listening to a speaker or reading a text. I also believe the interactive notebook, which includes the process of taking "regular" notes" while listening to a speaker and later creating a sketchnote of the text notes, would also be considered sketchnoting. This page will provide links, ideas, tips,and research evidence dealing with the power of sketchnoting. If you are looking for a book on the topic, the seminal work is this book by Mike Rohde.    

If you have any great samples of sketchnoting, know of any additional resources, or use a tool that I have not listed, please drop me a line!      

BOOKS ON THE TOPIC

• Rohde: The Sketchnote Handbook
• Rohde: The Sketchnote Workbook
• Brown: The Doodle Revolution
• Pillars: Visual Notetaking for Educators
• Miller: Ditch that textbook
• Bresciani: A simple guide to sketchnoting
• Berengueres: Sketch thinking
• Carter: Sketchnoting in the classroom
• Duckworth: How to sketchnote
• McGregor: Ink and ideas

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ISTE 2016 Sketchnoting Panel Slideshow

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Research links

• Education.com: Dual coding theory
  
• Clark & Paivio: Dual coding theory & education
• Stanford Ency of Philosophy: Dual Coding Theory
• Research on student note taking
• To remember a lecture better, take notes by hand
• Sketchnoting vs. taking notes with the computer
• Wammes, Meade, and Fernandes: The drawing effect
• The scientific case for doodling while taking notes
• Attention students -- put your laptops away

​How and why to sketchnote

• Brain Doodles visual note taking video lessons
• Visual learning & visual planning sketchnotes
• Sketchnotes 101: The basics of visual note-taking
• Mobo Sketchnotes
• Sketchnote school
• How to create awesome visual notes
• Tips for listening
• 10 first steps towards sketchnotes
• Sketchnoting icon practice
• Review of "The Sketchnote Handbook"
• Dave Gray: Visual thinking
• Lee: "How I teach sketchnoting"
• How to get started with sketchnotes
• Sketchnote Army
• Jeannel King ebook: "What you draw is good enough"
• Derek Bruff: Why use sketchnotes in the classroom?
• Doug Neill: Verbal to Visual tutorial videos
• Sketch your way to greatness
• Makayla Lewis: 19 sketchnote styles
• My sketchnoting blog posts: Dec. 2013 and July 2016
• How to get started with sketchnoting
• Visual note-taking guide
• 5o resources for sketchnoting and visual thinking
• Carter: Introducing sketchnotes in the classroom

Sketchnotes sketched of our ISTE2016 Sketchnoting presentation

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Sketchnoting and education

• Carter: Introducing sketchnotes in the classroom
• An educator's guide to sketchnoting (Neill)
• Mapping media to the Common Core: Visual notetaking
• Sketchnotes and visual notetaking
• 2nd graders go wild for sketchnotes
• Visual note-taking in 3rd grade
• Why should you use interactive notebooks?
• Visual note taking lessons
• Sketchnotes in education (Google image search)
• Brad Ovenell-Carter's Sketchnotes (@braddo)
• Gorgeous iPad notes could lead to the paperless classroom
• Best note taking: sketch note on the iPad
• A visual final
• Visual notetaking Flickr group
• Visual notetaking Pinterest collection
• Brain doodles in the classroom course
• Wright:  Sketchnotes on education
• Sketchnotes using Discovery Education Streaming
• eTools for language teachers: Sketchnoting  (Duckworth)
• Sketchnoting for beginners using Adobe Draw
• Digital sketchnotes for visualizing learning (iTunes course)
• Why use sketchnotes in the classroom?
• Sketchnotes: teach students more than one strategy
• Discovery Education S.O.S.: Sketchnotes/visual notes
• Being Mrs. Riley
• Bruff: Sketchnotes in the classroom
• Miller: Ditch that textbook - sketchnotes
• Sketch quotes hyperdoc
• Richards, et.al: Sketchnoting in teaching and learning iBook
• Baughcum: A beginner's guide to sketchnoting in the classroom
• Bosch: Sketchnote tools and resources

Sketchnote collections

• K-12 student sketchnotes
• Flickr sketchnote group​
• Google search: student sketchnotes

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​My presentation links 

• Kevin Thorn sketchnoting definition
• Johnine Byrne sketchnote about sketch notes
• Mueller and Oppenheimer research
• Klemm opinion about sketchnoting
• Science lab sketchnote
• Flickr sketchnote group (1 2 3)
• Sketchnote Army site
• Sketchnote Army Twitter feed
• Brent Pillsbury student samples
• Cary Tyler samples
• Jill Gough thoughts and samples
• Heather Marshall Instagram and blog
• Sketchnote Scribes G+ group
• Twitter samples (1 2 3 4)
• Student explanation of sketchnoting
• Sketchnotes of TED talks
• Ovenelll-Carter: overview of sketchnoting
• Student lesson for sketchnote basics (1 2)
• Core77 blog (Berman)
• Best sketchnotes
• Basics of visual note-taking
• Ann Brucker: First sketchnote with Procreate
• Silvia Tolisano: sketchnote creation recording (final)
• Discovery Education SOS: Sketchnoting
• Lesson: Science lab
• Lesson: ELA
• Lessons (elementary) by Hall and Russac: 1 2 3 4
• Lesson: Tolisano and ELL
• Lesson: Final exam prep
• Sketchnoting as reflection (Tolisano)
• Tom Kuhlmann's library of icons
• "Introduction to Sketchnotes" color sample (Wragg)
• Sacha Chua: Speech balloons and thought clouds

​Tools for sketchnoting

• iOS: Bamboo Paper
• iOS: Draw
• iOS: Drawing Pad $
• iOS: Graphio 3 $
• iOS: Inkflow
• iOS: INKredible
• iOS: IPEVO Whiteboard
• iOS: Keynote
• iOS: OneNote
• iOS: Moleskine Journal
• iOS: Notability $
• iOS: Paper by WeTransfer
• iOS: Penultimate
• iOS: Procreate $
• iOS: Autodesk Sketchbook​
• iOS: Tayasui Sketches
• Android: Bamboo Paper
• Android: INKredible
• ​Android: Autodesk Sketchbook
• Android: IPEVO Whiteboard
• Android: OneNote
• Android: Sketch Notes​​
• Windows: OneNote for Surface tablet
• Online/Chrome: Google Drawings (Chrome)
• Online/Chrome: InspirARTion (Chrome)
• Online/Chrome: SketchToy (Chrome)​
• Online/Chrome: awwapp
• Online/Chrome: AutoDraw by Google (works in iOS Safari)
• Online: Deviantart Muro (Chrome) (works in iOS Safari)​
• Stylus: Apple Pencil (use with iPad Pro and new 2018 iPad)
• Stylus: Apple Pencil (2018) (use with 2018 iPad Pros)
• Stylus: Adonit Jot Pro
• Stylus: Logitech Crayon (for iPad 6 and up) 
• Drawing tablets: Wacom

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Videos and slideshows to view

• The basics of visual notetaking
• Visual recording on the iPad
• A sketchnote primer
• Why and how to start sketchnoting
• Getting started with sketchnoting
• How to create sketchotes on an iPad
• Practical sketchnoting
• Sketchnoting and visual notetaking
• Sketchnotes
• Sketchnotes in the classroom
• Two students discuss sketchnoting
• Drawing in class

Sketcho Frenzy's instructional videos

• The basics of sketchnotes
  
• Typography
  
• Drawing bar graphs
• Drawing peeps
• Drawing a flow chart
• Drawing a line graph
• Drawing a mind map
• Drawing a pie chart
• Drawing a tree diagram
• Drawing a Venn diagram

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Mike Rohde's Sketchnote Podcast series
The Sketchbook Handbook on Amazon

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The "Complete the Doodle" Challenge
​https://www.doodle-junkie.com/completethedoodle-challenge

A series of "starters" posted in 2016 by @dianasoriat and @sam_hh to help users begin to feel comfortable with sketchnoting.
Right-click and download the ilinked file or click on it and drag it to your desktop or tap on it to save it to the Camera Roll on your tablet. 
​Use it as a background in your favorite drawing program or screencasting program or print it off to use the analog version!

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Page created: 11/17/2013
Last updated: 01/10/2022
Kathy Schrock (kathy@kathyschrock.net)
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