This document provides information and resources for creating sketchnotes. It discusses recommended drawing apps, tips for sketchnoting, and examples of how sketchnotes can be used in classroom lessons and student projects. Key ideas include using simple drawings combined with text to visualize and recall information, focusing on 2-3 main ideas per sketchnote, and practicing sketchnoting across various subjects to improve the skill. Resources like tutorial videos, example sketchnote workbooks, and the author's website are provided.

1. tinyurl.com/boschsketch
Karen Bosch
Twitter: @karlyb
k.bosch@mac.com

2. Activity: Try It!
Digital:
Any drawing
app will work!
Pencil and
Paper

3. Apple Notes app
(Free)

4. tinyurl.com/boschsketch

5. Twitter: @karlyb
Conference #ADE2023
tinyurl.com/boschsketch

6. Creative

7. Link to Pinterest
Brad
Ovenell-Carter
Beginnings:
ADE 2013

8. Find a
way to
practice!

9. My First Sketchnote
link to my sketchnotes

10. My First Sketchnote
link to my sketchnotes

11. Sermons

12. Flipink
Example

13. Sketchbook
Pro Example

14. Tayasui Sketches
Pro Example

19. Podcast Example

20. Conferences

21. Conferences

22. Conferences

29. Conferences

32. Books

34. Book Quotes

35. Brainstorming

37. Meetings

38. Video

39. Trainings

41. Sermon Sketchnotes
in Book Creator
Link

42. SKETCHNOTES

44. STRUCTURE

47. NOT
remember!

48. Getting Started
DIVE IN!

49. Sketchnotes: try it!
Title: “Sketchnotes”
Topics:
Why
Tools
Hints
Lessons
2 or 3 Key Ideas (not
everything!)
Text + Simple Drawing
for each idea

51. ISTE Standards
KNOWLEDGE
CONSTRUCTOR
CREATIVE
COMMUNICATOR
INNOVATIVE
DESIGNER

53. Fill
in the
Blank
Notes

54. (translation: Kids
communicate ideas with
emojis)
👶 👄 💡 with 😄🔣

55. “MEMES”
for
Personal
Expression

56. BITMOJIS
for
Personal
Expression

57. "Picting"
not
Writing
Source: https://thejournal.com/articles/2017/05/08/
picting-not-writing.aspx?m=2

58. Picture
Superiority
Effect
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_superiority_effect

59. Typing vrs
Article
Study Link

60. increases/
enhances:
• listening
• comprehension
• ability to recall
Study Link

61. • doubles
ability to
recall
Study Link

62. Link

63. Why?
I see what
you mean
I remember
what I see

64. Make Your Own Meaning

66. I listen better when
I draw.
It’s so easy to
focus…your
attention.
Taking
sketchnotes…
helped my
understanding
because I had to
visualize what he
was talking about to
draw it.
Students Say:

67. Students Say: Bene
fi
ts of
Sketchnotes

70. My Sketchnoting Tools
5th Gen iPad Pro
Apple Pencil 2
Tayasui
Sketches Pro app

71. Inexpensive Stylus for
Student Use
Link

72. MACUL Apple Pencil Grant

73. “Sketchnotes” is
not a speci
fi
c app
Device and App
Agnostic - best
with touchscreen
Any drawing app
will work!
APPS:

74. My Sketchnote App
Essential Features:
Realistic tool simulation: marker, pen, pencil, crayon,
watercolor
Ability to customize tool width and transparency
Easy zoom in for details, easy undo
Background grid/lines and colors
Type in text
For advanced users:
Layers
Insert photos
Lasso or resize tool
Paint over/under tool
Tool to
fi
ll shapes

75. Apple Notes app
(Free)

76. Freeform app
(Free)
Drop in links

77. Tayasui
Sketches School (Free/Apple,
Google)
Pro Version has layers and
customization of tools -
MY FAVORITE APP!

78. Procreate
(paid/Apple)

79. Adobe Fresco
(multi platform/in app purchase)
requires login

80. Autodesk Sketchbook
(Free/Apple or Google)
Link to App Pros/Cons

81. Goodnotes
(Free + Paid)
Create
Notebooks

82. Drawing Apps for Early Learners
Hello Crayons
(free)
Drawing Pad
(paid)
Drawing Box
(Free)

83. KEYNOTE
(Free)

84. KEYNOTE
(Free)

86. DOWNLOAD LINK

88. SEARCH “Icons”
SPLIT SCREEN DRAWING

89. SHAPES!
Trace and
Delete

90. TRACING! Self-Portraits

91. Student Self Portraits
in Keynote
link to
tutorial

92. Use Layers to Trace
(I used
Procreate app
to export this
drawing process
as a video)
link to
tutorial

93. Focus on what resonates
with YOU!!
(not everything!)

94. Google “clipart”
or “icon”
Noun Project
site
Search on
phone while
working

95. Take a Photo of a Slide
(if it’s going too fast!)

96. Use two
steps:
do text live
do graphics later
use layers, color
UNDER text
rearrange to
fi
t
space, emphasize
ideas
(Gives time to re
fl
ect on
what was heard and
learned.)

97. Sizing:
use grid for
sizing and
alignment
pinch to zoom in
to draw details
delete grid at end,
if you wish

98. Visual Metaphors: combine 2 ideas

99. Draw:
•Loose
•Fast
•Simple
•Messy

100. Visual Brainstorming:

101. Layers:
•Top:
Words
•Middle:
Outline
•Bottom:
Color

102. Template

103. Stickers/Clipart

104. Ways to Practice
• Books
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Journaling
• Top 4 ADE
things I
learned

105. Quickstart App Tutorial Videos
Link
Link
Hint!

106. Sketchnoting for
Teaching and Learning
LINK
FREE!
•Created by Apple
Distinguished Educators
•Hints
•Best practices
•Inspiration

107. Bethany
Nugent
Sketch Notes
Workbook
(in Pages)
(link)

108. Lisa Plenty Sketchnotes
Workbook (in Keynote)
(link)

109. Link
Book Resources
(listed on my resource website)

110. tinyurl.com/boschsketch

112. Lessons for the
Classroom

113. Sketchnote Expectations:
Title/Topic of your sketchnote (bold text)
4 to 6 main ideas shown with both words and simple
pictures (Use color, size, and line thickness to draw attention to
main ideas)
A way to organize and/or show the order of the steps/
directions (use containers, lines, arrows, or other organizers)
A few details for some of the steps (smaller text, pictures)
Thoughtful/creative use of color and iPad drawing tools to
express ideas
Your
fi
rst name

114. Sketchnotes for Learning
Student examples

115. Student Projects: Sketchnote Journals (6th grade)
Flipink, Tayasui Sketches

117. Student Projects: How To Sketchnotes (6th grade)
Flipink, Tayasui Sketches, Sketchbook X

122. Student Projects: Chapel Sketchnotes (6th grade)

124. Student Projects: Chapel Sketchnotes (6th grade)

125. Student Projects: NonFiction/Articles (2nd grade)
Drawing Pad

129. Student Projects: Non-Fiction Text (4nd grade)
Flipink

135. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)
Flipink

136. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)

137. Student Projects: Science Notes (fourth grade)

139. Student Projects: Science Notes (7th grade)
Keynote

141. Student Projects: Sermons (middle school)
Flipink

146. Videos: PBS Learning Media Explorer Collection
Choice of Apps

150. Student Projects: Discovery Streaming video (sixth grade)
Flipink
Keynote

151. Sketchnotes: Mythbusters Jr/
Discovery Education

152. Student Projects: Fiction Books/Stories (middle school)
Flipink

154. Student Projects: Social Studies (middle school)

155. Student Projects: Bible (middle school)

156. Keynote Sketchnotes: BIBLE

157. ç

158. Student Projects: Story/Poetry Comparison
(High School - via Laurel Christopherson)

167. Apple Clips App
LINK
Photos/Video Clips
Audio Narration
Live Titles/Captioning
Annotate
Overlays
Music
Poster Titles

168. ANIMATED SKETCHNOTE
Keynote

169. Sketchnotes: try it!
How Did You Do?
Twitter: Post
with @karlyb
and #ADE2023
Questions?
Sketch ADE
4 Best Things

170. Twitter: @karlyb
Conference #ADE2023
tinyurl.com/boschsketch

171. Copyright: Karen Bosch, All Rights Reserved

172. Sketchnote Elements: Practice!