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Here are some ideas for your sketchnote practice in the new year

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A brief explainer video on what sketchnotes are and the benefits they provide.

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Studying isn’t always fun, especially when you have to read your messy, clumpy, boring notes that you wrote in your class and never look at them until exam times. Of course, who would want to read bland notes, right? But here’s a game changer: if you try to make your notes look better, it will actually make you want to look at it, which is a good thing because then you would be more motivated to read your notes!It’s not easy for beginners to start writing notes unless you’ve been doing that since the first day of school, but practice makes perfect, you can start slow and work on it more, and slowly you will be a pro at it!1, Use only a few colors.一，不要用太过多的颜色。Using only a few colors will make your notes look simple and clean, and also helps create a minimalistic appearance. It’s best to use 1 to 3 shades of a color for a topic. 2, Use boxes to separate different sections.二，画格子来分开不同题目的资料。Drawing boxes around some information is a good way to separate information of different topics, especially when they are all written on the same page. 3, Write on lined or boxed papers.三，写在线条或格子的纸。It is difficult for you to write in a straight line on a blank paper, especially if you’re a beginner. Using lined or boxed papers are a good way to help keep your words in a line, and also help to control the sizes of your font. 4, Different topics on different papers.四，把不同的题目写在不同的纸上。Don’t try to cluster too many information onto a paper. If they belong to different topics, put them on separated papers. This will ease your process of studying and also makes it easier for you to find your notes. 5, Add diagrams.五，加上图画。You don’t need to draw some masterpiece kind of art on your notes. Just simple diagrams that you can understand will be enough. If you prefer not to draw, you can also print out images and then paste them into your notes. 6, Practice neat handwriting.六，练习写整齐的字体。Having a good handwriting takes effort. Even people who have naturally good handwriting requires effort to write in a neat way. Practice your handwriting so that they will look tidier, or learn new handwritings from online, such as calligraphies or any other fancy fonts. 7, Use different fonts to represent different things.七，用不同的字形来代表不同的东西。Using different fonts makes it easier to separate information of different topics if you are writing on the same paper. It will be useful if you separating information that belongs to the same topic but should not be written together, such as definitions, examples, summaries etc. 8, Highlight key points or titles.八，强调重要的资料或题目。Using highlighters or markers on main ideas and topics will help them stand out, which will help you to focus more on a certain part of your notes and not waste your time when studying. With these few tips and some time to practice, you will be able to produce beautiful notes that will help you with your studies better!

great tips and ideas for better study notes

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How to learn a language on your own with sketchnotes – Sketchnote classroom

As soon as I came across sketchnoting I knew it was suitable for language learning. How? Because I recognized that my own language learning notes were a form of sketchnotes. Instead of using only words, I used icons and diagrams as well as words. That was because I was encouraged not to use my first …

Some ideas on how you can use sketchnote to learn a language on your own

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It’s bad pedagogical advice to “just sketchnote” in the classroom.

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This is tips for beginner sketchnoters with the basic elements useful while sketchnoting - structure, frames and lines, type, people and faces, objects and ideas. You can print it out, fold it and carry together with your sketchnote notepad and markers.

Happy sketchnoting!

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Some more visual library ideas for you. 

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory - Friedrich Engels

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A great intro to the basics of Sketchnotes and visual notetaking.

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Three really simple ideas for getting students to start using visual notetaking and sketchnotes in the classroom.

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found some sketchnote tips :)

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very useful ideas to use

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I’m sharing this for two reasons. 

It’s a sketchnote video, so you can get inspired and get some sketchnote ideas from it.

The idea of a code of ethics for us in Education makes perfect sense. We have to evaluate if our activities match our values and help towards those goals. 

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What and Why of Sketchnotes in the classroom

I honestly can’t remember when I first came across sketchnotes but it has become a influential idea on me and my teaching. So today, to kick Sketchnote Classroom off, I’m introducing what sketchnotes are and why you should give them a go.

What are sketchnotes

Sketchnotes was coined by Mike Rhode back in … for a form of visual notes that people prefer over standard text only notes. Mike has called them “notes plus”, as in notes which aren’t just notes but include aspects of images, quotes, typography and more. It is very fluid and people interpret sketchnotes differently, bringing their own preferences and personality to their sketchnotes. Some prefer more typography or elegant lettering whereas others prefer using more images and graphics to convey information in their sketchnotes. For many people, the idea of sketchnotes either has this “Oh, I do something like that already” or “Oh, I didn’t know I could do that” as though sketching in your notes was forbidden. Sketchnotes don’t mean you have to use only images, or only text, but you can use what is best for the role.

Whatever your preference for sketchnotes is, digital or analogue, more visual or more textual, the important elements are that you can choose and you don’t have to follow lineal pattern of information flow.

Why are sketchnotes important?

Mike Rhode’s central argument for sketchnotes is that you utilize both parts of your brain. The right, logical, analytical part, and the left, creative and artistic side. That means that if you are more “right brain” or “left brain”, these notes are still suited for you. It’s also very efficient for conveying certain information. Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words, but sometimes a couple of words are more efficient than a picture (that’s why we don’t use pictographs as our alphabet anymore.) Sketchnotes require you to focus on the most important information and make “decisions” over what to include and what not to include. Often you include a subtitle to sum up a section, but then you need to decide what information is the most important to include there. Visuals are also great memory prompts. Most memorization techniques involve using images to help remember items, and as such, using images in your notes can help you remember more keenly the notes you take and what was going on when you took those notes. It’s also worth noting (pun not intended) that people who take notes longhand have been shown to outperform those who take notes on their laptops in understanding and long term recall tasks (Muller and Lockheimer)

Overall, I think there are some really interesting ideas behind using sketchnotes and similar techniques in education to help provide more options for our students to learn in a manor that suits them better. And For kicks, here’s my sketchnote version of this post. (You might have noticed that there is some empty space. That’s so I can add more to it over time.)