Sketchnoting: Videos

Sketchnoting for Academic Success
Dr. J. Ricky Cox
jcox@murraystate.edu
@Racerbiochem

Sketchnoting Videos

Students and professionals watch a variety of videos for entertainment as well as professional and academic purposes. In many cases, videos contain important information that must be collected, organized, integrated and applied. Students were given an assignment to make sketchnotes based on a TED video.

PLEASE NOTE: To help them learn the fundamentals of sketchnoting, students read the Sketchnote Handbook (by Mike Rhode) and viewed a variety of sketchnotes made by excellent sketchnoters (see links on main page). It was very difficult for students in the class (just learning this technique) to make sketchnotes while watching a video (real time). Therefore, we discussed a technique termed "storyboard recreation" (this is the term I have given this process). Many good presentations are put together by presenters using a storyboard technique. However, we never see their storyboard, only the final product. As a result, I suggested that the students watch a video and take regular notes (including some graphics) with story panels that let them chunk main points from the video. In a crude way, this lets them recreate a storyboard for the presentation on the video. After the video, students can make sketchnotes from their storyboard recreation notes. Below, is an example of storyboard recreation and student sketchnotes made from various TED videos. Note: It is not clear how many of the students used this technique.

Example of Storyboard Recreation (TED video by Dr. Gregory Petsko):