The videos here were taken at a recent workshop I did in Connecticut that was organized by our long time colleague here on the PLC, Keri Biron. As such, the videos are not what we might find in a classroom with students, but rather are more instructional in nature for the teachers in the workshop.
For those interested in seeing an Invisibles story with real students, here is the first Invisibles story ever done in New Delhi, in January of 2016. This video actually got the Invisibles ball rolling –
In the first Connecticut video below we are not working with class created characters (one word images) but rather are going though the selection process of figuring out which individually created character we want to work with. We end up choosing a character who is an envelope in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfz_hQvh5cg&t=5s
In the second video we go through the first of the questioning levels with our envelope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpADLvLXw4&t=4s
I left my ego at the door on these. If we are ever to properly share video here on the PLC we need to do that. The best stories are never captured on videotape. That’s a rule in this work. There is no “great teaching” in this work. There is only a magical process that allows us, via comprehensible input, to align with the research and the standards and that is enough. We can all be great teachers in our next lifetime. So send in more videoptape.
For those interested, there is a video published here a week ago on the general topic of making an Invisibles story using the seven level questioning sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Wo4tvJd5Y&t=253s