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Sketchnotes: Tools and tactics for visual notetaking. About the presenter: Matt Miller has taught for more than a decade, integrating technology to engage students and create unique learning experiences.

Sketchnotes: Tools and tactics for visual notetaking

He created the Ditch That Textbook blog, is a Google Certified Teacher and co-hosts a podcast on the BAM Radio Network. Matt’s book, Ditch That Textbook, was recently published. It’s all about upgrading your classroom with powerful technology and innovative mindsets to meet students in the 21st-century world where they live. Buy a copy of Ditch That Textbook on Amazon, or don’t wait — get a copy from Matt for $20, cheaper than the Amazon price.

Matt travels around Indiana and the United States to present at schools, workshops, conferences or any other professional development event. Great sketchnoting resources: Visual Thinking: How to Create Sketchnotes to Capture and Synthesize Content. Notebookcast - a free online whiteboard for any device. Notebookcast is a free online whiteboard that allows you to share whiteboard space with any devices.

Notebookcast - a free online whiteboard for any device

You don’t need to install any software, it runs within your browser. Like any whiteboard software you can draw and add images and shapes. Once you have created a board you can share it with up to 10 users, all of whom can add to the drawing in real-time. This would be good for collaborative work. The whiteboard is a little basic, and there’s not a lot of features right now – I couldn’t move anything once I’d added it to the page, and I found it often crashed after adding images. You can test it out for yourself at www.notebookcast.com. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Drawp for School- A Great Collaborative Tool for Teachers and Students.

May 30, 2015Drawp for School is an excellent creativity and collaboration tool for teachers and students.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Drawp for School- A Great Collaborative Tool for Teachers and Students

It provides students with an intuitive blank canvas and a variety of drawing and painting tools to use for visualizing thoughts and for creating rich mixed media content. Students can collaboratively work on a drawing, add sticky notes, text, or even record audio clips and share them with teachers who, in their part, can provide feedback in the form of comments. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: An Excellent Interactive Whiteboard for Creating Tutorials for Your Students.

May , 2014Pixiclip is an excellent free web tool that provides users with a canvas where they can draw, sketch, narrate, and record their creations.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: An Excellent Interactive Whiteboard for Creating Tutorials for Your Students

This is an ideal whiteboard tool that you can use with your students to record explanations of processes or to create tutorials for flipped classroom materials. This interactive whiteboard allows you to upload images, draw sketches, add text, and record your voice. InstaGrok.com. 6 Great Note-Taking Tools for Students and Teachers. One of the best things about education technology is that it has allowed students and teachers alike to turn to online annotation and records, making hastily scrawled, illegible scribbles and coffee-stained pages a thing of the past.

6 Great Note-Taking Tools for Students and Teachers

From university students keeping track of lectures to young students making plans and mind maps, there is an online note-taking tool to suit everyone… 1. Study Blue. Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students. This afternoon through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I received a request for some free whiteboard apps.

Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students

All of the following seven tools can be used to draw and type on a whiteboard in your browser. With the exception of PixiClip all of these tools can be used collaboratively for brainstorming sessions. While PixiClip doesn't allow for collaboration it does have a voice-over capability. Sketchlot is a free collaborative whiteboard service that works on any device that has a web browser. I tested it on my MacBook, my iPad, and my Android tablet. Aww App is a simple browser-based application for creating drawings. PixiClip is a great new tool tool for creating, narrating, and sharing drawings. Stoodle is an online whiteboard service supported in part by the CK-12 Foundation.

PixiClip. Whiteboard. Sketchlot - Create a sketch Online, share it with students. Sketchcasting: A combination of blogging, talking and drawing! Sketchnote Tools and Resources - iPad Multimedia Tools. Interested in using digital sketchnotes in with your students, but don’t know how to get started?

Sketchnote Tools and Resources - iPad Multimedia Tools

This session will share easy ideas and resources to quickly begin using sketchnotes in your classroom. Participants will explore what a sketchnote is and why research identifies it as a powerful learning strategy to organize and document thinking, ideas, reading, and listening. They will learn about the basic components of a sketchnote and tools/apps needed/helpful to begin creating digital sketchnotes on an iPad with their students. They will discover resources, lessons, video tutorials, and examples from the presenter and her students (including a complete sketchnote course in iTunesU) on which will equip them to launch sketchnoting in their classroom.

Programvara för att rita minneskartor - Rita minneskartor online. eTools for Language Teachers. Sketchnoting (or visual note-taking)(Click here for a presentation called "Sketchnoting for Beginners".

eTools for Language Teachers

Click here to see my sketchnotes on Flickr.) She told me that she made them with an iPad app called “Paper by fifty-three”. Well, I immediately downloaded the app and my journey into sketchnoting began. Sketchnoting is simply a way to take notes in a more visually attractive way than bullet points. Some people use traditional pen and paper, but my tech-inclined self prefers the iPad version. Silvia’s preferred app for sketchnoting is “Paper by fifty-three”, while I preferred FlipInk when I first started out because you can upload photos, type text, add lines for guidance, and change the thickness and lightness of your pen. When I began sketchnoting, I became frustrated because: I couldn’t figure out exactly how the apps workedI didn’t have a proper stylusI’m a terrible artist and I wasn’t sure that I had the skills to be proficient. To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand - Technology - The Atlantic.

Students do worse on quizzes when they use keyboards in class.

To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand - Technology - The Atlantic

Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching assistants. It was important she have good notes on the lecture. Normally she used her laptop to take notes, but, without it, she’d have to rely on a more traditional approach. So she put pen to paper—and found something surprising. Class just seemed better. “‘I had a similar experience in a faculty meeting the other day,’” Mueller remembers him saying. It turns out there is. A new study—conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer—finds that people remember lectures better when they’ve taken handwritten notes, rather than typed ones.

What's more, knowing how and why typed notes can be bad doesn't seem to improve their quality. The study comes at a ripe time for questions about laptop use in class. The study was conducted in three parts. Sketchnoting.