I asked my students on Wednesday if any of them would be interested in volunteering for a video-session that might help me prepare for this panel presentation. It came up because some of the students had assumed Iíd use video as one of the teaching methods, and I explained that the only way Iíd use it would be to tape us doing our thing, then we would watch ìus doing our thingî and analyze the interaction. :-) There was a rather deep silence. I provided an example by introducing the notion of volunteers discussing my panel topic. Someone asked, ìWhatís the topic?î ìThe teacherís body.î Silence. ìWhat does that mean?î ìWhat I look like, how I move. How what I look like influences my teaching, what it means to you.î Silence. ;-) We moved on, but after class I got three volunteers! One of them asked me, ìWonít that be hard for you?î I explained that Iíd done similar things (being under that kind of scrutiny) but not for this particular topic. A kind of ìyes and noî answer. (Iím sure Iíll have plenty of visceral reactions when it happens!) And one of the students said to a peer something about turning around in slow motion. ìYeah, When she said that...it was like...whoa, did I just hear that? What did she mean?î
Iíd say weíre already up and running! I have to crank on informed consentÖ.
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