The Verbal To Visual Classroom

OK, both as an artist/thinker and as a teacher, I will be blending/investigating linkages between these two text/image strategies this winter and spring. As someone who has read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and delved into Visual Notetaking and Sketchnoting, I’m fascinated and a bit flumoxed also trying to contrast and compare.

Both arrange text and images in a rectangle to…Read More

I am reading a remarkable book called The Book of Trees, Visualizing Branches of Knowledge by Manuel Lima. It’s part history of tree as way to organize information dating back to pre-history, and part analysis of computer and logic modeling. The book makes the point that trees as a metaphor of a central idea emerging from roots and then extending via branches….is central to our way of…Read More

OK, I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to start this log…and it never arrives. Going to do some catch-up here, so multiple posts with different sets of sketchnotes attached.

This first set was created when observing the 8th grade LA teacher I was about to collaborate with.

Hi folks–I’ve been a member here for two months and am finally getting around to introducing myself, etc. Day after xmas, time to sit here in the morning before anyone is up and have fun with my computer. I’m 57, a published poet and exhibiting artist, a teaching artist in the Evanston, IL public schools courtesy of Columbia College’s Project AIM, and co-owner of a brewery (Sketchbook…Read More

Hi folks–I’ve been a member here for two months and am finally getting around to introducing myself, etc. Day after xmas, time to sit here in the morning before anyone is up and have fun with my computer. I’m 57, a published poet and exhibiting artist, a teaching artist in the Evanston, IL public schools courtesy of Columbia College’s Project AIM, and co-owner of a brewery (Sketchbook…Read More