Comments on: Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:40:03 +0000

The link for this “It provides multiple entry points to the brain. Dual coding theory, according to this Education.com article, states that including visuals helps encode ideas in the brain through two routes: “a verbal code specialized for dealing with language in all its forms and a nonverbal code specialized for dealing with nonlinguistic objects and events in the form of mental images” – doesn’t work. What article are you linking to?

By: Matt Miller

Matt Miller — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:51:04 +0000

In reply to Michelle Tuinstra.

Hi Michelle — Several differences. Google Drawings is an app for Google that’s only available currently for browsers on computers (desktop, laptop, Chromebook, etc.). The Paper app by FiftyThree is an iPad app. Google Drawings uses text, images, shapes, lines and are controlled mainly by a mouse or touchpad on a computer. Paper is mainly hand-drawn (although you can incorporate images and text) through a finger or a stylus. Sharing is different too … Drawings through a link, a JPEG, a PDF, etc. … Paper through their Mix site as well as through PNG (image file). Those are some of the differences. Great question!

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By: Carrie Baughcum

Carrie Baughcum — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:52:52 +0000

OH MATT!! I am just in love with this piece. I feel like you have reached in part of my brain and captured so much of what I think about connecting words to visuals. The verbal-visual connection is such a powerful tool for learning! You are also, right, I don’t know that I remember the exact moment I said that phrase but I do remember such rich conversations and ideas about using drawing/doodling/images in the classroom and how open you were to the idea sharing and that there really are no rules as long as it is good for students and learning is happening. Oh man, I love this post! Really wonderful post, full of so much information, a wealth of ideas and most of all a really great idea for using Google Drawing and connecting images to ideas and information!!

By: Rhonda von Werder

Rhonda von Werder — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:43:54 +0000

I am going to have my level I Spanish students make a meaningful diagram of Ser vs. Estar using this. They will each have a Spanish-speaking country assigned to them. All of their examples have to be culturally relevant to their specific country. They will be listing and organizing the reasons for ser/estar and then using images from their countries and sample text sentences to illustrate the differences. I think they will enjoy the visual nature of this grammatical task plus being put in a cultural context, they should be discovering quite a bit about these countries.

By: Michelle Tuinstra

Michelle Tuinstra — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:30:45 +0000

Hi,
How is Google Drawings different from Paper 53? I learned about this from you at a conference. My students love it!