Drawing on Walls with Nancy White

By | May 14, 2014

Kicking off CNIE2014, this year I was head-over-heels-excited to participate in a graphic facilitation workshop led by the amazing Nancy White as a full day pre-conference session. It was a great opportunity to connect with old friends, friends I only knew online (until now) and of course, make new friends.

The day progressed so smoothly and naturally. I love this stuff.


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Sylvia & Tracy really can draw!


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I discovered the beauty and mess of chalk


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We then used the most basic shapes and graffiti walk to create meaning


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Nancy shared all her resources, including these laminated sheets of ideas to get us warmed up to try making our own


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Then we explored the variety of templates available

and we tried making some of our own for use in our contexts


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Tracy and I shared some iPad app tips and tricks

I am blown away by Tracy’s use of 53 paper. Her sketches and use of this app to create templates are pretty incredible, which she posts on Tumblr. (Note to self: get a link to her Tumblr, where she posts everything!). Here are Lynne’s visual notes from that session.

Lynne takes visual notes during our iPad session


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We then did a break-out session into two groups, one about instructional design and the other about online facilitation

Finally we did a harvest and evaluation of the day using a visual “river of life” map. Really a superb day overall. I have so many more tools to add to my repertoire.

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