“A new bag each day for my kids. I’m the dad. I make these during my lunch break.”

“This “Documentation Exhibition” contains fifteen examples of documentation of student and teacher learning contributed by educators involved in the Making Learning Visible Project, a Project Zero/District-Charter Collaboration. MLV educators from preschool through high school spent several months engaged in supporting and making individual and group learning visible in their classrooms and schools. As with the other documentation examples on this site, we hope the pieces shared here will stimulate conversations and questions about what makes for powerful teaching and learning at all levels, and suggest new ideas about using documentation to support and extend learning in a variety of settings.

Note: there are no details beyond a photograph and general description for some of the pieces that appeared in the exhibition and they are marked accordingly. Additionally, we hope to eventually add a comments feature so that viewers can share their perspectives, related experiences and questions the work raises. For many of the teachers whose work is featured here, their inquiries are ongoing. So seeing viewers’ responses would be of great value. We hope you will visit this section of the site again soon and often.”

Image by Jason Tozer

Blanka “is both an online gallery and permanent visual archive devoted to celebrating the very best in creative communication and print on an international stage. We are an open and enthusiastic co-operative of people from all creative disciplines expressing themselves through exceptional, innovative and inspiring printed items. Blanka has been created to act as a permanent archive and virtual gallery space to display art and design, photography and print. We are constantly growing and evolving to showcase the talents of our contributors to deliver the best recent work, unearth some classics from our past and also bring you new, inspirational pieces hot off the press.”

“We’re proud to announce that the new Book Cover Archive is now live and fully operational.

Featuring…
• 800+ books and 180+ designers
• Cross-indexed meta data
• Custom comments system
• Fully browseable master list of all content
• Smart URLs
• Smart keyword searches

The real strength of the site lays in the cross-indexed meta data. Click on an author’s name and see any other books they have in the archive. Click on a designers name and see all work by that designer. More often than not, a single person will have multiple instances of meta data associated with their name. For instance, Chip Kidd (unsurprisingly) has the unique honor of being the only person in the archive with every possible attribution filled: Author, Designer, Art Director, Photographer, and Illustrator.”

Awesome!

via swissmiss

This month our preschool calendar focuses on the human body, the heart is this week, of course. One of my students told her mother, with confidence that I was going to bring in a real heart to show them. When her mother asked where I was going to get the heart, her daughter replied “the market”. There is no way I could go near a real heart, even those available from the butcher… But I do have this picture to show the class.

Go Green, Go Barefoot!

photo by Jessica Williams via storkbitesman.blogspot

a day in the life of Tracy, Francis, Lucy and Orla.

I asked Fran and Tracy for a paragraph to go along with this clip and this is what I got :

“a paragraph? oh man. how about “Trying to document daily life with twin 10 month old girls in the course of 12 hours”.”

Enough said!

I am looking forward to my three hours with the girls tomorrow (even if they are only awake for a third of the time) – their smiles and laughter, clear my mind – as does the sound of them sleeping

“Order this cloth bag with your favourite letter displayed in beautiful uppercase and lowercase Clarendon. We’ll make one special for you!”

Inspirational collage by Mark Walters