I love a creativity challenge! I also love sketchnotes - I've written about that here before. So when I read about World Sketchnote Day and the Pass the Sketchnote challenge, I signed up! The day before the challenge, I received an email with my group - it spanned the globe! The first person up was in Turkey! I read the directions and watched the video on how they suggested we add to each note and I was ready to go....or at least I thought I was. Turns out, I had to improvise. I was person three. The initial sketchnote was intricate and a little intimidating - it was a beautiful beginning that set the bar high. Eek! When it made it to me, it was clear that the directive to print, add and then taking a picture in order to pass it along on Twitter was not the best. BY the time it got to me, it had a discolored patch at the bottom... Ack! I spent way more time than I should have to try and figure out how to add to this so mine looked like a natural part of the design. So, I pulled the image into Google Slides. I drew my addition on a plain piece of paper and took a picture of it. I then used one of my FAVORITE tools - Luna Pic - to remove the background and make the image transparent. Then I inserted the image into the slide and resized it and set it into its spot on the sketchnote. I saved the slide as an image file and uploaded it to Twitter, tagging the next person in our group and attaching the requisite hashtags. That's my fast artwork (long to process) right there in the middle... And then crickets....I was the third person in a five person group. Person number four left us hanging. Person number five added her artwork and then our first sketchnoter kept it going. I repeated by Google Slides handiwork and it started another round - we were having fun! That's my addition on the right. I also added a white box to camouflage that blue haze that was still at the bottom and sent it on its way. This was fun. I connected with other educators and sketchnoters around the world AND I had to navigate some technical troubles that could arise when working on collaborative, projects of any type. I look forward to more opportunities to connect and share sketchnotes as a means of communication and collaboration.
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AuthorJeannie Timken Archives
March 2023
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