by Lisa | Jun 25, 2017 | Education, Visual Thinking
Last week I worked with over 200 leaders in education. It was the 21st SURN Leadership Conference held at the College of Willliam & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. The conference ran from 6/19-6/20 and included speakers and workshops that brought innovative thinking and insight to attendees. I provided graphic recording for 5 different sessions, check out some of the photos below.
It’s a full house! Educations Leaders ready to engage at #SURNLC2017
BIG Board for BIG Ideas! Title done, now I’m ready for capture.
Here is the after, Visual summary for the Opening Keynote all finished. Speaker: John Almarode
Concurrent Session: Speaker, John Almarode. Love his presentation style, very active with music and audience participation.
Mike Schmoker was so engaging with the audience. He showed an example about tying shoe laces with his own shoes. Can you find the shoes in my chart? Double click to expand.
Closing session by Steven Staples was great. He shared facts and inspiration for leaders.
I had the honor of being a presenter this year.
I thoroughly enjoyed teaching this workshop. The participants jumped right in and were so creative. They even shared their work on social media #SURNLC2017 to inspire others!
Teaching Sketchnotes for Beginners to a full class of 30 education leaders.
My final quote to the workshop participants.
This was such a positive and action oriented conference. I am excited to see the plans for next year!
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by Lisa | May 29, 2017 | Art
Many years ago (1984 to be exact) there was a commercial for Dunkin Donuts with a famous line that went “Time to make the doughnuts!“. Well, you don’t have to get up early and work at Dunkin Donuts to make one! In this quick lesson I’ll show you how to build your visual vocabulary and draw a doughnut in 5 easy steps.
Let me show you how you can use this image at work, school, or home.
- Use a doughnut when you are drawing visual notes. A doughnut image can represent a “reward, treat, dessert, calories, or indulgence“.
- Do you have a meeting, training session, or workshop where you will have breaks in the agenda. Draw your agenda on a flip chart or whiteboard. Then draw a doughnut next to each break in the agenda to represent a break for sweets.
- Celebrating an accomplishment for your team, students, or a family member? Write the word Congratulations on a whiteboard or flipchart and draw a large doughnut next to it.
I will leave it up to you, where to buy your donuts! Personally, I’m a Krispy Kreme fan (smile).
Can you think of more ideas that a doughnut can represent? I’d love to hear it.
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by Lisa | May 12, 2017 | Community
On Saturday, May 6th, I had the honor of being a Community Partner for TedxHerndon. Tedx events are local Ted style talks that are independently managed and driven by the community.
What an awesome experience to see speakers like the legendary Nikki Giovanni, Kwame Alexander and so many others. The Master of Ceremonies for the event was Aron Teo Lee, who is also a TedxHerndon veteran speaker.
For this event, I listened to 18 different talks and prepared the charts ahead of time. I created the 18 hand drawn charts in my studio. The last step was to construct tower displays in the lobby for attendees.
Here are some of the pictures from the event!
TedXHerndon Entrance
Yep, this tower I made is taller than me!
9 different talks displayed in a tower.
Attendees stop to reflect and take in the content
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by Lisa | Apr 15, 2017 | Event Planning
The event you planned is over. Whew!
But…now you are trying to figure out, how to keep engagement going with your attendees.
Sending a thank you letter is a quick and effective way to do it. This is how one of my clients kept the conversation going after their Women In Government Contracting Conference.
It’s a short video with big impact, click the image below to watch.
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by Lisa | Mar 31, 2017 | Art, Education, Visual Thinking
April 4th is National School Librarian Day. Let’s give librarians a round of applause and celebrate them with visual thinking.
When you think of a librarian, what image comes to mind. Books pop into my mind.
Here is a quick lesson on how to draw a book in 5 easy steps. Give it a shot.
Icons like this can help build your visual vocabulary. Of course you can use this icon to draw tons of concepts. For example a book can represent learning, school, teacher, research, and so much more. And several books together can make a library!
Can you think of more ideas a book icon can represent? I’d love to hear it.
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by Lisa | Mar 12, 2017 | Business, Education
I love these kinds of projects, because I get to learn something new about business! I provided graphic recording for the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at their Social Enterprise Symposium.
My favorite quote of the day came from the keynote speaker, Shannon Schuyler of PwC. She said “Creating a better world is smart for business.” I agree, 100%.
Great speakers and special thanks to lead sponsors Price Waterhouse Coopers, EarthColor, and Goodwill Industries International, Inc.
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Getting started with quotes from the keynote speaker, Shannon Schuyler of PwC
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