Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
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 […]
#1 There’s a classic joke about a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer. An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. A small fire breaks out in each room. The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick […]
I love the idea of teams creating something that represents their work, feelings, accomplishments, and challenges. It’s a great way to close the laptops, get everyone engaged, have some fun, and end up with cool and deep insights. Recently I came across a number of articles about using Rory Story Cubes in various ways in Sprint retrospectives. […]
When my daughter was learning to ride a bike I could only hold on to the back of the seat and tell her to pedal for so long before I had to let go. The first time I let go, she rode into a holly bush at the end of the driveway. I gave her […]
A great way to look at it is to go back to the opening lines to one of my favorite childhood books, Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne… Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, […]