Week 5 Reflection – Sketch Notes and Infographics

This week, we learned about leveraging visuals for teaching and note-taking. We started by thinking about how to encourage people to retain more information from lectures.

I love the idea of sketchnoting as a way to retain information because it is something that I experienced a lot in my elementary education. You see, I went to a Waldorf school, where students are asked to create their own manipulatives and reference texts. So sketchnoting came naturally to me, and it was clear the ways that sketchnoting could be helpful for students.

Here is a sketchnote that I created in class based on an episode of From the Mic, a podcast about contra dance calling. In this episode, Mary Westley interviews Chrissy Fowler, a fantastic New England contra caller who called many of the first dances I attended.

Then, we moved on to creating infographics. I found that infographics were a fun and innovative way to share a lot of information quickly.