Oh my, what a week it has been!

On October 23 the book campaign for “How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for Teachers and Students” (release date Nov. 13, 2018) was officially launched.

After consulting with EdTechTeam Press author and lead editor Holly Clark and author and marketing guru Trevor Mackenzie, we brainstormed on a 3 week campaign to get people excited about sketchnoting and #SKETCHNOTEFEVER was born!  (To the uninitiated,  sketchnoting, or visual note-taking, is an effective and fun way to take notes using doodles and text.)

Every day for the past week I have been posting quick 3 minute lessons on my website and asking participants to post their drawings on social media using the hashtag #SKETCHNOTEFEVER. The response has been phenomenal with more than 2000 tweets and many more on Instagram and Facebook. Teachers told me that #SKETCHNOTEFEVER hit hard in their classrooms and even at home with their own children!

Photo courtesy @itsmrsking

Photo courtesy @caroreinck from Singapore

Photo courtesy @wheeler_laura

Photo courtesy @mrsstack205

Photo courtesy @virtualgiff

This week I also threw a “Book Reveal” party for some of my Toronto area teacher friends where we opened the first box of my new book. It was the first time any of us (including me) had seen the book and we were all thrilled to see the final product!  Thank you so much to friends Jason Trinh, Larissa Aradj, Kim Pollishuke, Jen Giffen, Laura Collins, Diana Mancuso, Shaki Ravindran, Julie Millan, Stephanie Signer and James Trood (not pictured) for coming to my place to celebrate this moment and for documenting the event with photos, videos and social media posts.

Photo courtesy Larissa Aradj

To celebrate the end of the first week of #SKETCHNOTEFEVER I drew a name from a list of more than 200 people who contributed photos of their drawings and Ashley Sonkin from Texas was the lucky winner to receive a copy of my book. Congratulations, Ashley!

I can’t wait to see what the next week will bring. If you haven’t done so already, please join in the fun by adding your name to the mailing list to receive the daily sketchnote lessons in your email box. To get caught up with all of the lessons, please visit bit.ly/sketchnotefever. It’s never too late to join!

XXOO

Sylvia

PS. To pre- order “How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for Teachers and Students, please click here. Special purchase bonuses are available until Nov. 13. Please visit bit.ly/SylBook2 for more info.