Leading tours and educational programmes that are based on discussion, inquiry and interaction can be a scary business. Both for you and for your participants.… Read More »How to Overcome the Fear of Leading Art Discussions
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After you’ve become an expert at using all the standard elements of Zoom (chat, breakout rooms, whiteboard, annotation and polls), you might want to progress… Read More »Tech Tools To Try Out with Online Art Discussions
Are you wondering how to make your online classes or virtual workshops more interactive and engaging? I’ve attended some fantastic interactive online sessions over the… Read More »13 ways to make your online sessions more engaging & interactive
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Once you’ve got to know the tech, prepared yourself and practised with a test group as we talked about in Part 1, the next step… Read More »How to Make your Art Discussions Engaging On Zoom (Part 2)
If you’ve never taught or led discussions online, you might be a little nervous or wary of virtual facilitating with artworks or objects. You may… Read More »How to Make your Art Discussions Engaging On Zoom (Part 1)
This week marked the end of one of my online courses. Participants from 8 different countries (& 2 continents) came with me on a deep… Read More »The power of reflection in online learning
Questioning is the skill to master when you want to create engaging discussions & dialogue around art and objects. Questions help us learn, avoid misunderstandings,… Read More »Using Thinking Routines to Formulate Better Questions
Have you been using the same Project Zero thinking routines for a while now? Looking for some new routines to liven things up with your… Read More »Three New Thinking Routines to Try Online and Offline