Also known as Graphic recording or Visual Notes or SketchNoting or just plain Doodling.
As Temple Grandin says, “the world needs all kinds of minds.” and some of those minds “think in pictures”.
Doodling is a form of external thought that allows you to visualize the connections you are making while thinking. In the conscious mind, doodling can assist concentration and focus but even in the unconscious mind, while doodling and day dreaming connections are made.
As Steven Johnson says, the “mind’s primordial soup” can lead to “serendipitous collisions of creative insight”.
Doodling has allowed connections to be made between people and ideas, the magical space between.
These aspects can lead to better problem solving. By sharing my thinking through visual means, my most important connections have been to people, by way of sharing my perceptions of their ideas, presentations and words back to them.
Here’s a great how-to sketchnote post.
Sunni Brown, Doodlers Unite!
Some examples, ALL released under Creative Commons on my Flickr stream
Universal Instructional Design- To Aid Note Taking
Documenting Learning
Thinking outside the LMS
How was this done?
I use a 1st gen iPad + AutoDesk Sketchbook Pro app and a generic stylus.
I learned pretty much everything fromRachel Smith’s site and a lot of practice!
Visual Recording on the iPad from Flickr Stream by Rachel Smith, DigitalFacilitation.net.
See Rachel’s Flickr Photostream
For more inspirational resources, see: Nancy White, Full Circle Associates and Nancy’s Flickr Stream
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