I’ve been fascinated by visual recordings of meetings for a while now. Once again I’ve been inspired by David Hopkins who I met for the first time last week at #BbTLC2014. David has recently started to develop his sketch noting skills ( you can see his live notes from the conference over on his blog).
Over the past few years, my own note taking skills have really become twitter-fied (not sure if that is a word). If I am at a conference I tend to tweet and that provides the basis for my note (and memory) of most events. In fact I think that the 140 limit in twitter has helped my synthesis skills. However, there is something about a picture . . . So following a chat with David on his experiences to date, I’ve decided to give it a go. I’ve ordered the sketchnote handbook and whilst wait for that to arrive, I’ve been having a play with the notability app on my ipad.
I realise that my first attempts are a long way of what David and other such as Guilia Forsythe can do and I have had a few days to think about things (doing things in the almost now!) But I just thought I’d share them.
So here are my very basic, slightly more visual notes from Professor Stephen Heppell’s and Jay Bhatt’s (CEO, Blackboard) keynotes (click on the pics to see larger versions). I think I might try and see if I can do a bit more visual note-taking and a bit less tweeting at conferences, and more practice of my drawing doodling skills.
Stephen and David’s approval has been lovely and encouraging too.
