Curious Minds

Creative Documentation...who, why, what and how

Agents and practitioners met on Monday 17 January to explore the who, why, what and how of creative documentation in learning.

Dr Helen Manchester provided the context and helped us role play a pitch to a challenging team of school senior managers. Then we played with lots of new tools.

Paul Main presented ICT methods including Garageband, Exploratree and funny phone techniques.

Alison Unsworth and Paul Merrick from BALTIC Arts facilitated a hands-on session using scissors, glue, card, charcoal and video.

Perhaps most useful was the reminder that it doesn't matter what tools you use, it's the quality of the questioning, listening and the dialogue that's important.