The “Going Visual” (GV) workshop series has been a foundational part of the EdMedia program from the get go. With the rise in popularity of sketchnoting, visual scribing, graphic recording, facilitation and the like, more and more educators are exploring their drawing skills as a means to teach. Drawing can …
Here is our agenda for todays session. Drawing is a common and powerful means to convey ideas, but is often hampered by a perceived âinability to drawâ. In this session, participants practice their drawing skills and explore strategies to apply them to their teaching. What are some of the benefits …
A popular technique to create educational videos, often referred to as explainer videos or whiteboard animations, is by recording the process of visualizing an idea, through sketching. There are many ways to accomplish this, and although it helps to have some drawing experience, it is by no means the most …
For our Going Visual II workshop, we have created a video using the app Educreations. This is a really neat (free) app that allows you to draw on your iPad and record your voice at the same time. It’s a great way to make instructional videos quickly and efficiently. The …
With an overwhelmingly interest from SFU faculty to use visuals and drawing in their teaching activities, we are pleased to be offering Going Visual II, a studio session in February 2016. This will be picking up where the first workshop left off, or in the case of past EdMedia program …
At the ETUG conference this month, I attended a presentation by Alisa Stanton, Rosie Dahaliwal, and David Zandvliet (SFU) called “Creating Conditions for Well-Being in Learning Environments.” I practiced visual note-taking during the talk, with the results below. In essence, the talk was about how instructors can get students to feel connected and …
An inspiring post with 50 inspirational quotes all done up with some amazingly creative uses of typography. It was hard to choose the one I wanted to share in this post but thinking back to our “Going Visual” workshop this past week, the admonition to “Keep it bold” rung the …
I’ve been following the Youshow faithfully these past weeks, and signed up my personal blog and started doing some of these crazy daily assignments. This week was of particular interest because they were covering visual design, and drawing and had invited guest speak Nancy White to drop some science on …
In my free time, I’ve been making my way through Lynda Barry’s book, “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor.”  Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist, author and educator who has become well known for her funny and densely packed visual stories. I’ve admired her work for a while, but I didn’t realize …
The Back of the Napkin Bio is an activity that is part of our “Going Visual” workshop, in which participants learn to be better visualizers. This activity tends to be a favourite, so we are including the instruction sheets here, for your use. This downloadable going visual handout (PDF) is an instruction guide for the …
