
Looking closely can happen anywhere.
This process can happen anywhere. The facilitator should have an eye toward equity, access and full participation when designing or choosing a space with the group. In Philadelphia, teachers have met since 1978 in teacher centers and each other’s homes after school to describe student work, have reflective conversations, and make together.
Google Hangout also provides a fantastic, engaging meeting space for a group of teachers from all over the country, especially with the easy screen share, YouTube sharing capabilities, collaborative documents, and the chat option.
I’ve also had the experience of using this process via webinar, with people both chatting and talking during the different rounds.
Sections
- Looking with the heart: Celebrating the human in the digital
- Hecho a mano
- Top 5 Reasons to Look Closely
- It is an antidote to the culture of deficiency.
- We make a professional development community by looking closely together.
- Looking closely can happen anywhere.
- We learn about the process of creation, and generate new work and ways of working.
- It is a remixable process.
- Aaaaaand, here it is! A remixable process for looking at digital work, multimodal compositions, and other student work (with thanks to Prospect Center’s Descriptive Review of Work)