Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
This week’s Torah portion, Vayeitzei, contains the wonderful visuals of the story of Jacob’s ladder. Jacob dreams of angels going up and down a ladder. G-d blesses him. Jacob names the place “Beth El” (House of G-d). In his dvar Torah “The Simple Art of Thanksgiving” Rabbi Jonathan E. Blake of Westchester Reform Temple in […]
This is an interview by Mike Rohde, author of the Sketchnote Handbook, for the Sketchnote Army Podcast. It aired on November 17, 2017. Thanks Mike! Steve Silbert is an agile coach and an avid sketchnoter. In this episode Mike and Steve discuss how Steve uses sketchnotes to help facilitate discussions, collaboration and understanding. In […]
The brothers Jacob and Esau have a strong presence in this week’s Torah portion Tol’dot. Jacob and his mother, Rebekah, deceive the blind and near-death Isaac. Rebekah has Jacob wear goat skins and Esau’s clothing so that Isaac would think him to be Esau. This deceit would end with Isaac bestowing upon Jacob the blessing […]
Last school year, by invitation of a teacher, my friend Kelly and I facilitated a set of three Sketchnoting Bootcamp for sixth graders at Goochland Middle School. What a great learning experience for us. We dove into our course design session with enthusiasm knowing that we weren’t teachers but hoping that our approach was close enough […]
Business Projects, Internal Projects, Changes, and Unplanned Work. With one additional type of work, this view or work applies across disciplines, work styles, and industries, and actually applies to home life as well. Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford reveal these four types of work in their book The Phoenix Project. Business Projects are business […]