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Visual Note Taking Services to Bring Your Content to Life!

Sketchnote by Emily Bryson ELT. The visual summary contains the benefits of visual recording, illustrated with colourful doodles. The benefits include: giving 'eternal life' to webinars and events, social media 'gold', simplifying complex information, as a gift to speakers and delegates, and that it's fun, memorable and accessible.

Ready to give your talks, webinars and workshops eternal life?

Want to simplify complex research or content?

Would you like to boost your social media engagement?

 My sketchnoting services can help you! I have created visual recordings, hand drawn infographics and bespoke visual thinking templates for organisations such as National Geographic Learning, British Council. Macmillan Education, Ellii (formerly ESL Library), IATEFL YLTSig as well as individual clients. 

These visually engaging summaries of information reduce processing load and add an element of fun. They are the perfect way to make complex information understandable and appealing. 

They also serve as lasting reminders of a talk, webinar or conference. While a teacher training session may last an hour, sketchnotes continue to share the information, and encourage people to watch the recording for a lifetime! 

I’ve also found that speakers LOVE to see their sessions as a colourful visual. Andre Hedlund described his as a beautiful ‘gift’ while Harry Waters commented that it was ‘the best feeling in the world’. 

So if you’d like to gift your conference participants with a visual summary which stands the test of time, get in touch!

You can also: 

  • Commission me to create a visual recording of one of your talks, sessions, webinars, articles, course content, etc.
  • Contract me to create some visually appealing presentation slides, graphic organisers or visual tools. 
  • Hire me to deliver training to your organisation (staff or students) on sketchnoting or graphic facilitation.
  • Join one of my courses.
Here are some of my favourite sketchnotes which I’ve created over the years. Click on them to view the image in detail. 
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sketchnote by Emily Bryson. The sketchnote was created for ELT Publishing Professionals at their AwayDay in 2023. It provides some 'Tips and realities of networking. Sketchnote by Emily Bryson. The sketchnote is of Jamie Keddie's webinar for Elliicon 2023. It is a visual summary of a session entitled Stories from the teacher. The sketchnotes shares the benefits of stories and storytelling for language development. Accessible teaching tips sketchnote Emily Bryson ELT - top tips for supporting learners with ADHD, literacy needs, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc Sketchnote by Emily Bryson. This is a visual summary of a webinar by Nicky Francis and Candace Donovan. The title of the session is Understanding and Embracing Uniqueness: nurturing mental wellbeing in education. The session was delivered at the IATEFL Young Learner's special interest group conference in 2024. It shares some facts about learning differences learners have and how teachers can support them. Sketchnote or visual recording by Emily Bryson. The sketchnote is a visual summary of the IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group webinar at their webconference in 2024. The host was Michael Lacey Freeman, and author of books for children learning English. It shows a night sky with clouds. Each cloud has the benefits of reading with learners. There is also info inside a house on tips to inspire learners to read. Sketchnote by Emily Bryson ELT. This sketchnote is a visual summary of Maria Davou's webinar for IATEFL Young Learner's Special Interest Group. It is entitled 'Unlocking Potential: exploring play based learning for young learners'. It shows a some jigsaw pieces creating a small jigsaw of ideas for structured and unstructured play activities. Sketchnote by Emily Bryson. The sketchnote is of Andre Hedlund's webinar for IATEFL Young Learner's Special Interest Group in 2024. The title of the session is: The power of self-regulation: a lesson from captain marvel. The sketchnote is laid out like a comic strip and shows teachers as superheroes who can help students to self-regulate their emotions and therefore behaviours. Sketchnote or visual summary of the services provided by Hubbub Labs. It outlines ways Hubbub can help education companies grow through strategy, content and production. The information is laid out using simple hand drawn icons. Emily Bryson ELT sketchnote of the benefits of graphic facilitation, each point has a hand drawn icon. Fun. Revive teaching mojo. supportive. aids memory. relaxing. encourage critical thinking. aid understanding. minimise prep time. reduce processing load. clear communication. concept check. boost creativity. multisensory. copyright free images. supports literacy. = it's a superpower. Emily Bryson ELT visual recording supporting learners. Hand supporting various additional support needs and neurodiversities. E.g. ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, sensory impairment, dyscalculia, digital skills, autism, study skills, literacy, mobility Sketchnote or visual summary of a talk by Derek Philip-Xu. The session is entitled 'Accessibility in digital ELT content development'. It shares statistics on how many Europeans have visual issues and best practice tips for adding ALT text. Visual Summary of a talk by Katherine Bilsborough and John Hughes. The title is 'How ELT writers are made?' It outlines the challenges, skills and skills development approaches. It uses the visual metaphor of a tree for growth. Sketchnote or visual recording of how to communicate across languages. Emily Bryson uses simple hand drawn images and minimal text to share ways to communicate with people who are developing their language skills. For example, speak slowly, say words clearly and use simple words. Each tip is accompanied by a simple hand-drawn icon.

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My bespoke visual templates add a touch of magic to your lessons, training sessions, presentation slides & lead magnets. 

Here’s an example commissioned by www.Communicating-For-Impact.com. 

The Epic Podcast Planner is a graphic tool with a snazzy visual twist! It is specially designed to get your podcasting journey off to successful start! 

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Here's what some of my clients have to say about my visuals:

'Not only is Emily creative, flexible and innovative in her wide range of approaches to graphic facilitation & visual recording, teaching, learning, writing and so on, but she is an absolute pleasure to work with. I first approached her simply about an idea, and that sparked an innumerable amount of ideas from Emily on how the event, Advancing Learning Fast-forward may become even more unique and accessible. Her ideas catapulted the event into a whole new format, never seen before in ELT, or out'
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Will Rixon
Macmillan Education
'Emily has always been at the forefront of ELT and innovation, and so I commissioned her to create a sketchnote for why LGBTQIA+ representation matters in ELT. The process was simple and I felt fully supported and listened to. I thought the process was quick, professional and exactly what I wanted. Having the sketchnote is not simply an easy and visual way of people seeing what I do, but it's also provided better exposure and engagement on social media. Having also seen Emily's commissioned work for organisations pop up on social media, as well as being present at some of her event talks, I can thoroughly recommend commissioning Emily for sketchnoting or having her speak at an event.'
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Peter J Fullagar
I Am Not A Taboo
'Emily’s mini-poster sketch on the benefits of podcasting has been an invaluable asset for my in-person talks at conferences and events.
Instead of handing out business cards, which often end up in the bin, I handed out the mini poster Emily created. I observed attendees engaging in talking about the poster (and my services) with fellow attendees, asking for extra copies to share with peers, and ultimately taking the poster home with them.'
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Laura Wilkes
Communicating for Impact
'The sketchnote Emily created for me added professionalism to my posts and I've also included it on my website and will include it in a Refreshing Publishing magazine that I'm producing at the moment. After the IATEFL talk, it was great to have something to hand out to attendees that provided a great visual summary of my talk. I think it helped get me a couple of accessibility related projects which I may not have received otherwise. Both were related to alternative text so it certainly helped and played a part.'
Derek Philip-Xu
Refreshing Publishing
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My Sensational Sketchnoting course is guaranteed to unleash your creativity!

This start any time course is perfect for teachers who want to add a magical flair to their classroom. Y

You’ll gain confidence with doodling simple icons, even if you’ve convinced yourself you ‘can’t draw’. 

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Posters, Stickers & Notepads for Accessibility

My visual notes on Accessible Teaching Tips and How to Communicate Across Languages serve as essential visual reminders for any staffroom or home office. 

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Why not treat yourself or your team to mouse mats, stickers, magnets or notepads to help them remember all my top tips?

A website tile on EmilyBrysonELT.com. Click to find out more about her merchandise. The images include some of her sketchnote designs: Accessible Teaching Tips and How to Communicate Across Languages. These are pictured as available as coasters, scarves, notepads and laptop cases.

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Emily Bryson - ELT Specialist: Author, Materials Writer, Teacher Trainer, Graphic Facilitator, Visual Recorder
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