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Vivid Learning Academy for Education
Welcome
Welcome (1:56)
What is visual note-taking and visual thinking?
What to Expect in This Course (1:33)
Setting up your space and tools (1:38)
1. Why Visuals
1.1 Secret: We’ve been using pictures to share information for 40,000 years! (0:53)
1.2 Hack: Colour and images
1.3 Hack: Images = speed
1.4 Hack: Get 6 x better memory recall!
1.5 Secret: Why we love handwritten notes (1:20)
1.6 Hack: Feelings & memory (0:28)
1.7 Activity: How could you use visual thinking to enhance your study? (2:50)
Test your Learning (1:18)
2. Your Visual Thinking Toolkit
2.1 Activity: Identifying elements
2.2 Elements of visual note-taking and communication
2.3 Secret: You don't have to be an artist! (0:30)
2.4 Activity: Identifying principles
2.5 Principles - Elements in action! (3:20)
Test your Learning
3. Text
3.1 Text is a visual medium, too! (0:34)
3.2 Text hacks for note-taking (1:25)
3.3 Activity: Text Practice
3.4 Activity: Applying visual thinking principles to text
3.5 Debrief: Applying visual thinking principles to text
Test your Learning
4. Colour
4.1 Secret: Colour is your secret weapon (0:18)
4.2 Hack: Use colour to give you the feels (1:11)
4.3 Activity: Test the feels
4.4 Debrief: Test the feels
4.5 Hack: Colour conventions
4.6 Secret: You don't have to use ALL THE COLOURS
4.7 Activity: Creating your own colour key
4.8 Debrief: Colour Keys
Test your Learning
5. Organisers
5.1 Using organisers (2:30)
5.2 Practicing Organisers
5.3 Organisers in Action
5.4 Layouts (2:08)
5.5 Hack: Make your life easier with grids
Test your Learning
Review
Now we've got the tools, let's review how to use them!
Test your Learning
6. Visual Translation
6.1 When & how to use visual translation (3:11)
6.2 CARATA: The secret formula for visual translation (8:12)
6.3 CARATA in practice: The Three Little Pigs (8:51)
6.4 Activity: Visual translation (3:01)
6.5 Activity: Visual translation continued (1:16)
6.6 Metaphors
6.7 Activity: Metaphors as thinking tools
Test your Learning
7. Drawing
7.1 Activity: Quick draw! (8:24)
7.2 Types of Drawing (2:17)
7.3 Hack: Give your brain a holiday
7.4 Icon Anatomy (1:13)
7.5 Activity: Build your icon bank
Test your Learning
Homework: Test & review your icon bank
8. Faces & Figures
8.1 Facial expressions (7:02)
8.2 Activity: Expression test
8.3 Debrief: Expression Test (1:31)
8.4 Secret: There's nothing wrong with a stick figure!
8.5 Stick Figures (6:46)
8.6 Activity: Tell a story, change a story
Test your Learning
Draw a Process
8.7 Activity: Draw a Process
8.8 Debrief: Draw a Process
9. Listen by Design
9.1 Paraphrasing
9.2 Listening by Design (1:37)
Test your Learning
10. Live note-taking
10.1 Activity: In the deep end (8:05)
10.1 Common mistakes (3:16)
10.2 Activity: Back in the deep end (5:39)
10.3 Self-assessment & reflection
The journey ahead
Congratulations, visual thinkers! (0:21)
Weekly Activities
What's next?
Resources
8.3 Debrief: Expression Test
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