We spend our days asking questions, but most of us never actually spend any time honing our questioning skills. For some people questioning comes easily.… Read More »Learn how to ask great questions (by looking at art)
The ability to ask powerful, relevant and incisive questions is one of the most useful skills you can have. You can instantly engage people, provoke… Read More »11 quick ways to improve your questioning technique
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
In some countries, educators, guides and creatives are back to teaching and facilitating discussions about art and objects in-person, whilst others are looking to return… Read More »How to Facilitate Effectively Wearing a Face Mask
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
Interested in getting started with using questioning frameworks – such as the 10 Questioning Practices in the Thinking Museum® Approach – to support and guide… Read More »11 Tips for Getting Started with Questioning Frameworks
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