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okay throughout this session I'd like everybody to get their notepads and a pen which you can't see because it keeps disappearing because of my background but grab a notepad grab a pen and doodle throughout I would like to have you all at the end of the session believing that you can draw in the chat can you just let me know how do you feel about drawing um are you confident with it you hate it um I'd like to convince you if you have a negative opinion on it that it's not scary and that you should feel

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the fear and draw anyway I am not an artist can I just say I only started drawing uh with my classes maybe in about 2016 2017 um [Music] and since then I've developed my skills I see it as a visual vocabulary so much like learning a language we can learn it over time uh and practice and okay so this session is called from chaos to Clarity tips for Effective and engaging whiteboards so often our whiteboards and I think it's okay for our whiteboards to be chaotic and messy because sometimes classes are

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chaotic and messy but we would like them to be as clear as possible and as streamlined as possible so hopefully I will share some ways of doing this I will be using canva whiteboard um which is an online whiteboard tool there are other Alternatives such as Meo and mutle that you might want to look at using I'm also using uh digital pen you can use your finger if you want to I Will Show You other ways that you can do this if you don't have a touchscreen top andand pen as I go through as well one of the

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things I'd like to say actually about this session is usually my sessions are very colorful and my sketch notes if you're familiar with them are very colorful my visual tools for Learners which are kind of graphic organizers with a visual thinking visual um metaphor twist are very colorful but this session is about whiteboards and whiteboards are generally black and white or white and black uh or depending on how many colors you can get with from your uh stationary cupboard you can add more we'll talk a bit about that as we

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go through but why H add um dles and graphic facilitation techniques through your whiteboards firstly it makes them more accessible so it provides some very simple support for Learners one uh image can have a big impact on meaning uh it's lots of fun it's a creative um adding little Doodles can bring the class to life they don't need to be ar you'll see that these are as you look at my doodles this one is a triangle this one is a squiggle this one is a rectangle you will start to see

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shapes lines if you can draw the alphabet and you can draw shapes then you can draw it's joyful and welcoming and I think as teachers we want our students to feel like they are welcomed into the class maybe want them to feel like they're getting a big hug when they come into class um we want them to feel welcome um in class it can be a bit of a plan B as well um so sometimes you might go into your classroom and think computer's not working what's happening uh but if you've got drawings

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H up your sleeve if you can doodle I will show you some activities that you can do minimal preparation at any time in class whenever you want to so you've always got a toolkit of tools of uh facilitation ideas um it inspires creativity um creativity is what is a critical thinking SK critical thinking skill a 21st century skill it's very highly sought after and if you draw out there are studies that show that drawing out your future and future visioning can help you think about what you want in

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life and think about their plans um help them plan where they want to be how are they're going to get there and get creative about their ideas it also helps students to understand um so you can draw out comp complex Concepts such as grammar for example or vocabulary um and it can help students to process information and think in fact Sunny Brown who is a very big doodler sketch notter um she's got a book called uh the doodle Revolution and she says that Doodles are making marks to help people think so they are very

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very helpful okay so some of the benefits this is one of the ways I like to illustrate the benefits through visuals so we have a left whiteboard and we've got a right whiteboard can you say in the chat which whiteboard would you prefer to learn from in your class if you were to learn another language which whiteboard would you want your teacher to correct to use yep right exactly which one is the most accessible whiteboard the left one or the right one yes somebody's just written no need

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to ask you're very correct I'd like you to just take a look at this one for a moment and picture a world of English language teaching where there are no images you go into class and there's no pictures you go you open your notebooks and there's no pictures just words you open your course books just words you open your you download a PDF to use in class and it's just words that's not going to be very motivating it's not going to be very understandable it's not going to be very inspiring it's also not

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going to replicate real life because so much of what we do is visual if you look around the screen at the moment there's so many little icons here like for example this t for text um upload the upload icon here on the left if you look on Zoom or think about Zoom you've got the speech bubble for chat Etc there's so much visual literacy every single day and if you look closely at these words these pictures that I've used they're illustra sounds so U and CH for lowlevel literacy

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Learners um and they all involve just simple shapes so an O A rectangle another rectangle and then an L shape for a clock you could just have just the clock itself like that H the cheese is basically a rectangle with a triangle sorry sometimes canva does that weird thing with the I'm not sure how to stop it if anyone knows how to stop it please tell me the foot is very bizarre but it gets the point across that yes it is indeed a foot so it doesn't need to be beautiful and I think actually having

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imperfect and messy drawings makes students much more likely and willing to be imperfect and messy in their own notebooks and be and mess is creative and on the Whiteboard nobody wants to see their teacher creating the cine Chapel of Leonardo D Vinci Perfection H they just want to be taught English um in a fun way so here's a way that you can make your whiteboard accessible on day one um and let's make it very welcoming so you can draw remember when you were a kid and you would draw a bird

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so it's like two end shapes together another end shape and then some little lines you can maybe add a little smile in the middle um I often found that my students would ask me again and again and again and again teacher what room teacher what class Etc so if it's all there on the Whiteboard with a picture beside it then they know exactly what um uh all the information so add the time for example 9 to 12 add the room number a little rectangle with a circle and then add your email address and you can add like a little at

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there to make sure they know oh yes somebody's just put you can add funny pictures in canva under elements you are so correct which is another reason why I love using canva so if you go to elements here you can search for anything you want so for example time and then you'll see clocks you've got pictures videos lots of cool things on canva you can do so you don't just need to draw it and that's another way of getting round if you don't have a h uh doable drawing tablet screen um a

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drawing screen so you can add it with your own icons using the elements tab this is a whiteboard I created in class um on a day where I went into class and the computer wasn't working so we were practicing um sounds so we've got Bridge dge we've got the um silent c in here we were kind of reviewing a whole lot of different sounds we were looking at sha we were looking it and these so I got students to think about what was in their um kitchen and then I drew them out this washing machine here it's basically just

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a rectangle and a couple of circles and a very very small shrunken t-shirt comedy size in it that demonstrates that it's a washing machine um and then you can ask lots of extension tasks with that get them to ask and answer questions for example is there a washing machine in your kitchen um what is inside your fridge H do you have an oven those kind of questions question answer make sentences write about their kitchen describe their kitchen draw their dream kitchen or create on canva for example a a dream

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kit and get them to talk about it or find a picture online get them to talk about it um another whiteboard I'd like to show you I've used is um it's kind of like a sketch note of a whiteboard so sketch noting is a form of visual recording or visual note taking and it's basically using simple pictures with very short text so it's kind of like a handrawn infographic in a way so in my classroom at the college I was very lucky to have an entire wall where I could put the messy parts of my

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uh classroom work but I also had this whiteboard at the side which kind of became a wall like like it was kind of more of a permanent feature and randomly other teachers didn't really use this as much as I did so that whiteboard kind of became mine and then my kind of Doodles stayed on the wall and helped other classes that came in in the afternoon or the morning but um yeah so we used these with um so for example got countries here a little flag and then they can see all the different capitals here it means they

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can take a picture of it or they can draw it themselves for example H this little world map world map here is simply a circle and some little splodges there is some research to show that drawings only need to look oh I can never remember 340 or 50% similar I think it's actually as low as 30% for us to be able to understand what they are um so this little for example this little graphic with the with the world map Circle and some little splodges and that's all you need to show to demonstrate something same with the

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street for example the street couple of lines and then some little other lines around it so yeah keep it simple and then students can take pictures students can create their own H if they if you want them to uh um okay so in class there are various Tech options if you don't have a drawing tablet and Pen uh you can use this visualizer and visualizers they can you can get them quite cheaply they basically take a video of a video stream of um a piece of paper or a picture or a magazine or your coursebook

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for example and then it connects to a computer and then maybe to a whiteboard as well and then you can use it in class to show what's on your paper it's actually really good for correcting um for working through Corrections together or highlighting bits of a text together um but yeah you can draw on it as well uh the flip chart the mighty flip chart love the flip chart uh one the joys of a flipchart is not only being able to use it like a whiteboard but also being able to use giant pieces of

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paper to create posters or to have classroom activities so I'll show you some classroom activities using flip charts later you've got canva whiteboard as well I like canva because you can edit videos you can make reels you can I do my invoicing with canva h you could create um PDF documents PowerPoint presentations all sorts of things but you can also use mle mle oops mle oh sometimes it does that I don't know why it's got some okay canva the alternatives are Meo excuse the writing

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and mural um but they are more I think Meo and M are a bit more expensive and they don't seem to have the same functionality it's doing exactly the same thing um and you've got obviously your whiteboard as well wonderful and someone in the last session brought up blackboards of course used blackboards you can get really creative and use all sorts of things um someone in the last session also said that they laminated Bits of Paper to create their own mini whiteboards you can also get little smartboards which

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are many whiteboards and lots of activities to use with all of those plus a piece of paper and a notepad also wonderful okay to make your um whiteboards snazzier you can have things called what we call banners in the graphic facilitation world or the sketch noting World these are called banners um so the top tip is to write around the word first so for example hey there is it for example I'm going to bit more space so write the word first if you want to share any of your Doodles at any point please tag H

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McMillan education and Emily Bryson elt on socials I would absolutely love to see what you are creating in your own notebooks right now so nice little rectangle another rectang tangle around it and then you can connect it at the sides the alternative oops is to turn it into like you could make it like a mirror this going be quite good for reflective activities or for picture frames yeah miror or picture frame the simple simple simple one just to add little dots in the corner to make it look like a kind of

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plaque and the slightly tricker trickier one is to turn it into like a kind of ribbon so a couple of lines another couple of lines you can have a a triangle here you could also have it just flat if you want and then couple of like a vshape at the top top or a triangle depending on the angle that you want to go for so rectangle and that just makes things a little bit snazzier it gets students into taking notes as well and makes their own notebooks more fun you'll find that students get really in in into

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making their notebooks look really um interesting and stand out and I always find that when I create sketch notes and notes that look Prett I'm much more inclined to look at them again so if you want your students to review their notes or the notes that you create then I would recommend sketch noting them so I'd like to share uh the paper cisel idea before I show you how to make this snazzy so paper Carousel is basically an activity where you get big pieces of paper get students into groups and then you create uh so for

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example group a has a plan of talking about food vocabulary for example and they need to make a list of all the food vocabulary they can think of H B has to make a list of all the I don't know colors they can think of H Group D or group C have to think about animals for example and then they pass the they once they've had their ideas they pass the piece of paper to the next group who adds their own ideas maybe they correct some spelling mistakes maybe they ask some questions you could start it with a

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question like a research question as well and group a adds all the information they know about that research question and then passes it to Group B who then adds more information so lots of different uh activities that you can do with this paper Cel idea it's a great way of preparing students for like presentations helping them review grammar helping them review vocabulary but you can do it with blank pieces of paper or you can make it immediately more appealing by adding snazzy little layouts such as these and if you want a

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quick way of doing it you can go to elements in canva and for example look for uh flip chart and then add this to it and then print out if you want a super quick way of doing it but I like to draw it and then you don't need to bother printing anything um and to draw it you just start with a rectangle and then in the top corners you can add a couple of drawing pins just with a couple of lines and then a couple of circles at the top if you want to you can color the circles in and then you've got something that's immediately

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more engaging than just a blank sheet of paper uh you can also add more lines and then turn it into some sticky tape you could make that sticky tape G along the edges if you want to and then you can color it in because some sticky tape is very cool and colored and some is not some is transparent so yeah up to you but I feel like it makes everything and you can add obviously a banner at the top like for example get them to think about and then for example food I'm writing too fast the problem

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with you kind of do need to slow down a little bit um and the other one is to make it look like it's kind of coming away from the page and that it's got this nice little corner so to do that and start with a rectangle at the top with a couple of dots at the side and then just give it a bit of a flick at the bottom go along and then here you can just give it a little flick the bottom as well and make it curved okay and then yeah then you've got some nice uh flip charts that are very engaging for your learners and this is

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what we call um container we like to call graphic facility just call these like a container activity and another great container activity is the light bulb that we talked about earlier so a container is basically just an icon drawn really big as a thinking space so that students can put their ideas into that thinking space and um have time um to maybe discuss it and explore it in more depth so the light bulb is very versatile because you can use it for ideas for example you can get students to add their ideas using Post-it notes

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so you've got this U shape and then you've got an O and then you've got a zed and you've got an M you can have the M with wiggles or you can have just an M as it is or you can have lots of little filaments it's up to you but yeah you can get students to come out and add ideas with Post-it notes if you're working in canva you can look for sticky notes and then have students add their ideas using sticky notes because yeah with canva whiteboard you can share it a lot like you can

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share like a Google doc um so you can have all the students interact acting at the same time all in one document which is really good fun and very collaborative you can give them all different sections as well so that they're all working on maybe a different activity at the same time uh okay yeah so container activities here is another container activity so yeah containers big icons or icons drawn big or created big to give you thinking spaces um and in this activity this is an activity that you

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can do that's very minimal preparation if you know how to draw these icons then you can do it at any time in class so if you've got a computer failure um then then it's perfect for for that but it's also a good way of getting students out of their chairs and collaborating and talking together so this is how I got students to think about and share ideas and how they learned English so the homework for example is a rectangle with some little C- shapes backwards C- shapes the book is a

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rectangle with some couple of little lines the video is multiple n shapes and some little circles and a rectangle a little line the laptop is a rectangle couple of lines out the way and then just some really quick oops it's going to say quick crisscrosses but it doesn't always work like that too quick not too quick I don't know why can wants to show me that to do it over here there we go couple of little crisscrosses um so yeah students uh you can get students to come out and add their ideas

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using potic or give them all a whiteboard marker I find that my students love H drawing and writing their own ideas on a whiteboard marker you can get them to copy it to their notebooks and add their ideas but it's a great way of getting them to share um what how they learn English um and actually what intrigued me um was that my students used a lot of videos um that surprised me I thought there would be using more kind of H speaking outside of class Etc and um websites Etc um you can use vocabulary uh what do you call them

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they're kind of like a vocabulary graphic organizer I suppose where you can get them into the habit of not just writing a word with no translation whatsoever and then they go home and they have no idea what the what the word means but you could get them to add H pictures add it like a frame like like I showed you or a circle for meaning the word and a rectangle and then a sentence with it in context um then we've got lettering and because I taught a lot of literacy Learners we did a lot of

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handwriting in class because I found that students who um were quite slow with their handwriting H took longer to take notes so they were a bit of a disadvantage with the Learners who' maybe learned um were very quick with their handwriting and yeah so dotted third paper is great um so for example this is a tall letter to zoom in on that so you've got your letters that come to the top here youve got your smaller letters and you got your letters with Tails so for example capital e is a tall

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letter M is a small letter I is a small letter L is a tall letter hey the mysteries of canva whiteboard I don't know why it does that I don't know what's happening with the head here sorry seems to be whenever I draw a DOT doesn't like dots H why so that's your down letter for example so I don't spend too long on lettering because I think in the real world in the classroom with a whiteboard you want it to be fast but if you're creating something like a flip chart that you're going to use many times or a

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poster or maybe you want to teach your students some fun ways to create letters on their posters for example then you could use these so the first easy way is just to do capital letters or any letter and just add little serifs on the corners so like just add make them a bit longer at the end H you could get them to add little dots so a DOT here a DOT there you can add the DOT wherever they want really they I haven't added one in this bit but you could uh you can do bubble writing which makes things a bit more

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fun so maybe if students are doing a task H and you can create something nice on the Whiteboard for their next task for example if you have time to do that if not stick with just regular clear whiteboard writing that is intelligible I think the most important part of H whiteboard writing is to make sure that students can understand it and read it easily so make it big enough and make it clear enough and make it fit with these kind of rules of H the correct height for example okay I think that brings us oh

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yeah if you want some extra inspiration I would recommend this um hash whiteboard which was very popular a few years ago but I think it's kind of um lost its momentum a little bit so it would be great to reinvigorate the momentum so if you can start it again and share your ideas from YY whiteboards that would be lovely this is Dan Barber's present perfect so it is a bridge from the past into the present oh that's not the present that's the future it's a bridge into the present so

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past by I'm just going to leave that one because we're running out of time you know what I mean so uh and then Here Andrew parfit has this lovely hash whiteboard for the difference between p and B and the only difference is that they' these little aspirated lines so he's just drawn the side of a face and some lovely little aspirated lines to show students that you can feel the the sound and B you don't so thank you so much for coming if you want to see more doodling videos and um more

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colorful visual templates Etc then you can go to Emily Bryson elt or Emily bron.com