Monday, December 16, 2019

Graphic Recording






Lots of people this time of year think about the coming year ahead and what they want to do. It's the time people tend to get calendars and start planning their lives.

Illustrating Your Ideas As a Poster

...not only gives you ways to preserve them in a picture form.  This can also work to attractively organize and present them to others, once it's colored (or designed to be colored by the student.) The idea of "Graphic Recording" came from speakers who wanted more engagement from their audience. So they hit on the idea of having an artist/sign maker illustrate what they're saying in real time as they're saying it.

Here's my "sketch notes" from information that I'd like others to remember and use like a tool in their back pocket that I enjoy teaching. (It's about how to "fool" established routines so you can sift them out of what you want to retain.  If you're curious, you can see better what's in the notes by clicking on it to enlarge it.)

 But it's just a pencil sketch. Mostly I finish these later in color. Or I turn these into some sort of "homework" fun that the student can color themselves to help remember the information as an activity of study. Put it on the fridge!

In this form, it's just an example of how information can be organized so it can be remembered easier and referenced later, giving an example of potential for usefulness. Hope you enjoy your New Year potential!!