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Every project drawn, captured, or made sense of — newest first.

  • Blog-a-thon Sensemaking

    Blog-a-thon Sensemaking

    BLOG-A-THON live capture by Visual Thinkery It’s a BLOG-A-THON… What is a blog-a-thon? And can we make sense of it on one page? That was the challenge that presented itself at this week’s ReclaimOpen online conference. I hadn’t quite appreciated…

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  • Making your research come alive

    Making your research come alive

    GenAI Sandbox by Visual Thinkery for UCD. Bringing your research to life Visual thinking and articulation has so much to offer the world of academic research. After listening to this podcast featuring Paul Nurse from the Francis Crick institute, I…

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  • AI and the Future of Education (webinar)

    AI and the Future of Education (webinar)

    AI and the Future of Education (webinar) I had the pleasure of live cartooning a webinar on AI and the future of education. facilitated by Doug Belshaw and Laura Hilliger of WeAreOpen Coop. They were joined by fellow thinkers Helen…

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  • Visually recording a conversation

    Visually recording a conversation

    Visually recording a conversation Most of what I create has its roots in conversation. Open conversation sits at the heart of Visual Thinkery’s “10 ideas” process. Usually I’m able to record it and then go back through and visually harvest…

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  • What is it we do again?

    What is it we do again?

    What is it we do again? I am a cobbler. I spend so much time with other people’s shoes that I completely neglect my own. Every once in a while, when there is a big enough lull in the pipeline…

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  • INC-4: Global Cartoons for a Global problem

    INC-4: Global Cartoons for a Global problem

    Goodness knows we need one: a global treaty on plastics. But Big Oil with its stranglehold on the stuff of life is lurking with unlimited lobbying resources. Their playbook is one learned from Big Tobacco and Big Sugar: delay, distract,…

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  • OER24

    OER24

    A little overview from OER24 hosted my MTU in Cork City, Ireland. A visual language, a few sketchnotes, some CC imagery and plenty of thoughts to take away.

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  • That would look great on a T-shirt

    That would look great on a T-shirt

    When I sift back through a conversation I’ve recorded with a client, looking for visual ideas, I often find myself playing with a logo, or a hand-drawn unofficial logo, and wondering what it might look like on a T-shirt or…

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  • Documentary Cartooning

    Documentary Cartooning

    At a recent two-day gathering where I was busily trying to capture insight in cartoon form, a man came up to me and said I’ve figured out what you’re doing – you’re documentary cartooning!

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  • 25 Years of EdTech

    25 Years of EdTech

    Martin Weller, Professor at the UK’s Open University, got in touch regarding the aesthetic for a book he was earnestly applying the finishing touches to – 25 Years of EdTech.

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  • BFFP – Gloves and Masks

    BFFP – Gloves and Masks

    If we all wore a disposable mask every day, what effect would have on our waste, our seas and our planet?

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  • Open University – Open Degree Programme

    Open University – Open Degree Programme

    The Open Degree Programme from the Open University has been around since its inception 50 years ago. Here are the outputs of our visual collaboration.

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