Sketchnoting & Visual Recording

Visual Recording Services that Bring your Content to Life! 🪄

Sketchnoting for Webinars, Workshops & Content that Stands the Test of Time! ⏳

Emily Bryson ELT sketchnote: Emily's magic pen. There are bright, colourful doodles sharing the benefits of visual recording from Emily: social media gold, eternal life for webinars and events, fun, memorable, accessible and a gift to speakers and participants. Each point is illustrated with a simple doodle.

📣 The Problem with Most Conferences:

Too many conferences are forgotten the moment they end. You put in months of effort, only for the buzz to fizzle and the marketing to start all over again next year.

🌪️Sessions blur together.

🗝️There's no lasting takeaway for attendees.

🔈Recruiting next year feels like starting from scratch.

✨ The Solution: Visual Note Taking That Brings Events to Life

I’m Emily Bryson, a visual recorder, education expert, and your secret weapon for making conferences memorable. I visually capture your sessions in real-time, turning big ideas into bold, shareable visuals that:

🪄 Celebrate your speakers
🪄 Delight your delegates
🪄 Build an evergreen legacy
🪄 Market your next event - without lifting a finger

🪄 Drive traffic to session recordings

🏆 Make your event stand out from the crowd

🎯 What You Get

Each session includes:

  • ✍️ Live visual recording via Zoom or in-person (so people can see my creations in real-time)

  • 🖼️ High-res sketchnote of each session delivered digitally

  • 📢 Social media gold — visuals that drive traffic and boost visibility

  • 🔁 Ongoing visibility — your event gets featured in my social channels again and again

  • 🎁 A gift for speakers and a treat for attendees

✨Why It Works

🎨 People remember what they see. Sketchnotes make your message stick.

📈 They spark engagement and drive replay views.

🧲 They attract new audiences and help future events sell themselves.

💌 They’re a joy to share — so your message spreads organically.

Emily Bryson ELT: Portfolio of Sketchnotes

Over the years, I have created sketchnotes for top educational organisations such as National Geographic Learning, Twinkl, Ellii, Macmillan Education & IATEFL. Let me create visual notes for your audience that are bright, fun and engaging.

Emily Bryson holding a copy of Life Elementary by National Geographic Learning. The English language teaching coursebook is open on a page with a sketchnote entitled 'Memory and language learning'

My sketchnotes are featured in National Geographic Learning's Life & Impact series. Here's me at IATEFL sharing my sketchnote on

'Memory & Language Learning' from NGL Life Elementary.

Here are some of my favourite sketchnotes which I’ve created over the years. Click on them to view the image in detail.

Emily Bryson ELT: Sketchnote for ELT Publishing Professionals. The title is 'Networking tips and realities'. It shares some advice for networking and is illustrated with simple colourful doodles.
Emily Bryson ELT sketchnote of Jamie Keddie's webinar at the Ellii webconference. The sketchnote title is 'Stories from the Teacher'. Some things that stories can do are illustrated with simple doodles.
Emily Bryson ELT sketchnote: Accessible Teaching Tips: Content by Emily Bryson. The sketchnte summarises some ways teachers can adapt their teaching to support learners with ADHD, autism, dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, developing literacy, sensory impairment, mobility neeeds and developing study skills
Emily Bryson ELT Visual notes for IATEFL YLTSig webconference. The bright colourful sketchnote is of Nicky Frances and Candaca Donovan's webinar or Understanding and Embracing Uniqueness: nurturing mental wellbeing in education. It uses a lot of natural visual metaphors.

⬆️Click to download the Epic Podcast Planner ⬆️

Visuals to Facilitate Creative Thinking

🪄Graphic Organisers Brought to Life with Visual Storytelling

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!

Front cover Image of The Feedback Fairy: A Visual Tool for interactive and fun feedback. The image shows a colourful hand drawn fairy with a magic wand, a speech bubble, a thought bubble, a heart, a bag and a bin. Each visual metaphor respresents an aspect of feedbac

⬆️Click to download The Feedback Fairy⬆️

Visuals to Facilitate Creative Thinking

🪄Graphic Organisers Brought to Life with Visual Storytelling

We've all attended workshops and webinars that have ended with a buzz in the room... only for them to end with a dull tick box feedback activity!

End your training session or event with The Feedback Fairy! Her magic wand will have your participants leaving on a high!

Download it today: The Feedback Fairy

OR commission me to create something snazzy that is tailored to the needs and themes of your organisation.

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 start any time, work at your own pace courses.

Ready to Commission Me to Create Super COOL Sketchnotes?

🤩 My Clients 😎

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.

Speakers at these events always LOVE seeing 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’.

Here's some testimonials from my clients:

'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'

Will Rixon

Macmillan Education

'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.'

Laura Wilkes

Communicating for Impact

'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.

Peter J Fullagar

I Am Not A Taboo

'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

Screenshot of Emily Bryson ELT's sketchnote 'How to Communicate Across Languages' The screenshot is of a linkedin post that was shared 500 times. The sketchnote includes advice for how to be a better communicator with people who speak different languages.

Social Media Gold

My sketchnotes have been known to get A LOT of attention on social media.

The internet is a fickle place so this isn't something I can promise, but there is only one way to find out... 😉

Create your own sketchnotes:

Ready to start your own visual note taking journey?

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.

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

Bring your whiteboards and notes to life. Engage your learners. Amaze your colleagues! Start today!

Bring Sparkle to your Home Office or Staffroom

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.

That is why I created a RedBubble Shop!

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

Thumbnail for Emily Bryson ELT 'Merch'. Image of the front cover of a notebook with Emily's Accessible Teaching Tips sketchnote. The sketchnote provides a summary of simple ways to make learning more accessible for a range of diverse needs such as AD(H)D, autism, literacy, digital skills and dyslexia.

Grab your FREE Sketchnoting for ELT guide!

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Emily Bryson - ELT Specialist: Author, Materials Writer, Teacher Trainer, Graphic Facilitator, ESOL Lecturer

Front  cover of Emily Bryson's free guide to sketchnoting for English language teaching professionals. It shows simple doodles and benefits of sketchnoting.

🪄 Visual Sparkle for English Language Learning & Teaching 🪄

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