I recently took my Ohio State students through an introduction to documentation and it was a good reminder of the first time I sat through a presentation on documenting student learning. I was so overwhelmed with the thought that on top of all of the million things I was trying to make happen in the little amount of time I have with my students (45 minutes, every 4 days).
While I have come to realize that adapting my curriculum and pedagogy has freed up a lot of time in each lesson for me to capture moments of learning, I completely understand the worry and struggle of allocating time for documentation within each lesson, so I decided to start experimenting with a project I am calling "Document a Second".
Below you will find my first video of the project, which is a compilation of 1 second videos during my art classes over the month of February. While snow days, schedule changes, and my days off to care for family members left me with only about 11 teaching days in February, I think the video still does a good job of documenting the learning moments that happen in my classroom every day.
Tell me that you don't have 10 minutes of each lesson to allocate to documentation and I will tell you that I completely understand, because I was there before. But can you tell me that you don't have one single second to devote to documentation?
I'm excited to share March's video with you next month!
