This stick figure sketch of the 2012 Republican primary race is one of a series of sketches that I am using to build my visual vocabulary. To see others, check out an up-to-date list of all of my stick figure sketches. If you are looking to build your own sketching and visual note-taking skills, check… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Model Thinking Sketch Notes: Using Models to Decide, Strategize, and Design
[This post is part of a series dedicated to the free online Model Thinking course. See all other posts related to this course here.] In this final video of the first lecture, Page describes how we can use models to help us make decisions, strategize, and design. Though the seven reasons for using models shown… Continue Reading
Sketch Notes: Jonah Lehrer on Bob Dylan’s Brain, and the Implications on Teaching and Learning
As an individual trying to be more creative on a personal level, and as a teacher interested in encouraging creativity in the classroom, I feel that I have a lot to learn from Jonah Lehrer‘s new book Imagine: How Creativity Works. In the sketch notes above I have depicted what seem to me to be… Continue Reading
The Doodle Game: Making Use of Creative Constraints
A few nights back a friend and I played what we simply call The Doodle Game. Here’s how the game works: each player makes a quick and abstract squiggle, then passes it to another player who has to turn that squiggle into something – an object, a person, a scene, whatever. To get a feel… Continue Reading
Sketch Notes: Ken Robinson on the Role of Online Education
In a recent lynda.com interview about his book Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Ken Robinson briefly touched on the role of online education. In the sketch notes above I have depicted one of his main ideas – that online eduction can provide an individualized curriculum for each student, but that good teachers… Continue Reading
Starting a Visual Logbook
Inspired by a post by Austin Kleon, I have started to keep a visual logbook of the events that take place in my life each day. Here are some of my first entries: I am enjoying keeping this logbook for many reasons. One is that I find my visual vocabulary increasing in a natural way. … Continue Reading
Model Thinking Sketch Notes: Using and Understanding Data
[This post is part of a series dedicated to the free online Model Thinking course. See all other posts related to this course here.] With the prevalence of data available in today’s wired world, it is becoming increasingly important that we know how to manage that data and do something useful with it. In this… Continue Reading
