Letting the Light Shine in: A Tapestry of Digital Literacies in Canadian Faculties of Education

Graphically Speaking: Expanding Landscapes of Scholarly Writing Using Sketchnotes

“…5) while shaping an academic self as we think, remember, and craft our academic writing practice. This is modelled by Helen within her Ph.D. dissertation (DeWaard, 2023b). Sketchnotes become useful as OER and as contributions to a polyvocal, participatory, connected, and collaborative open educational practice (Tietjen & Asino, 2021).…”

“…The use of visualizations and graphic information in academic writing has increased, but classifications are problematic (Ariga & Tashiro, 2022). We offer clarity by distinguishing sketchnoting from commonly used visualization techniques, such as infographics, mind maps (DeWaard, 2023a(DeWaard, , 2023b, concept maps, flow charts (Cai & Gu, 2019), and comics (Barry, 2020). Concept maps and mind maps use branching and connecting structures, usually without graphics or iconography, thus differing from the free-form and image-rich formats used by sketchnoters.…”