I chose to visualize the notes of my favorite court case covered in my religion class so far. The case is about a Christian baker who refuses to make a custom cake for a gay couple, however he says they can get a pre-made cake. He refuses to make a custom one because it goes against his religious beliefs. The court case is based on the question of should business owners be able to turn down customers based off their religion?
For this assignment, I was contemplating doing something deep in interpretation or doing something simple. I ended up doing something in the middle. The pink digital camera in the stick figures’ hand was the camera I was gifted last year for my 17th birthday by a close friend who attended Emory’s Pre-college program with me. With that camera, I was able to document moments from last summer during my time in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s truly crazy because I never would’ve thought that I would be going to college here. On the other side of my drawing, is the same stick figure opening her acceptance letter to Emory University on December 11th, 2024. So again I ask, what are the odds?
I struggled with writing these visual notes because I took few notes in highschool. However, I found that when I could create an image out of the notes, it would help me understand the material a lot better. I think I chose the perfect class for visual notes because with probability equations, it is difficult to comprehend without a real life perception. With drawing the real life examples, it allows me to easily see when the equations would be used outside of my statistics class. I thought this sketch allowed me to break my comfort zone and find a new method of taking notes.
I decided to use my anthropology notes to draw a sketch explaining the difference between relative poverty and absolute poverty. Throughout this course I have been a bit confused as this is the first time that I am taking an anthropology course but this sketch helped me understand the difference between the two a bit more. Relative poverty is where one has a significant amount less compared to others around them, while absolute poverty is where one has absolutely nothing while others around them have more whether that is a small or a big amount. While drawing this simple sketch, I found that visualizing the material can help me in understanding confusing topics. During this assignment I found it interesting because it was difficult to understand and to put it into a visual was a bit more challenging as well.
I chose to convert my FIN201 class’s notes because we studied an interesting topic, quotas. Converting my normal notes into visual notes was a new experience for me, and I have to say, it did help me solidify the concepts in my head. As I tried to come up with ideas for visuals I could use, I realised that I had some questions regarding the topic which would not have arisen had I not thought about the concepts visually. Overall, I found the prospect of visual note-taking quite intriguing and enjoyable yet time-consuming, as well.
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To do this project, I used my written notes from QTM 100 and differentiated different types of studies and wrote details about them. I made sure to include drawings and colors to help myself memorize, and I bolded important words. Doing this assignment really helped me more than I thought it would. I know I’m a visual learner, so it makes sense that I felt like I could grasp the content more, but I didn’t realize how much of an impact it would make. I was looking back on the notes after doing the assignment and I really had everything memorized, despite not taking type to specifically memorize the notes. It also helps me that I used little drawings for things because I was able to memorize the drawings on my path to memorizing the notes. I think now, I realize that I’m someone who needs to be doing visual notes in conjunction with written notes because it drives home the concepts. I also don’t own an iPad and had to borrow my friends’, and this assignment made me want to buy one. This was a very enjoyable assignment and taught me a lot about myself as a learner. https://engrd101f25.davidmorgen.org/sketches/sketch-3-visual-note-taking/
Credit to Bob Fan
I don’t think the visual notes would be more helpful than the written ones as revision material. However, the process helped me gain a better understanding of the concepts since I had to digest the content before translating them into another medium. I realized that there are mostly results in my sketch instead of the mechanisms that caused them. In my written notes the mechanisms are shown in graphs which is already a visual component. In class we learned about diminishing marginal productivity, the benefit and cost of trade and the utility curve. I drew them separately but they are connected by more fundamental economic principles.
In the process of making this visual note drawing, I began looking at my sociology class in a new light. When I was taking notes in this specific class, I was writing a variety of information in random order. Since I was given a good deal of information in one sitting, I was only able to take in a small amount of what I was listening to. However, when I looked back on the physical notes I took, I began looking at the information from a chronological perspective. Instead of looking at the information in a jumbled form, the information started falling into place from step 1 to 6. After drawing out my notes, I could better understand what I had written down because I could see it visually. Now looking at my visual notes and how its helped me understand my physical ones, I see that I learn best when I visualize the information. During this process of visualizing my notes and drawing onto paper, I not only took in the information in a whole new way, but i also got to explore my creativity skills.
Assignment link:https://engrd101f25.davidmorgen.org/sketches/sketch-3-visual-note-taking/
Hello everyone! For Sketch 3 I tried something new: I turned my HIST 100 lecture on public memory into a single-page picture. I didn’t draw during class; I finished my regular notes first, then rebuilt them as some figureswith some notes beside each of them. I limited myself to tiny phrases and a few icons, so that they won’t get take too much space. The page also works as a retrieval cue: when I review terms like “memory laws” or “Victory Day,” I immediately recall the related figures and connections. Surprisingly, the drawing process felt like studying; selecting what to keep forced me to prioritize, paraphrase, and organize—skills I want to keep practicing. Laying it out this way made the lecture, events, themes, and examples finally sat in one frame.
