I discussed this topic with Sean and a few others and the vote is in. We want more and more video of ourselves working. Sean suggested that since we now know and trust each other more after working together at the conferences, we can now take that risk.
We can understand and openly state that any video we capture will not be easy to get (there is a release form that we can get here on this site but releases are a pain to get). We can also understand that any video we get will be a mere shadow of the real work being done by us with our kids in our classrooms.
Nevertheless, we can try because it’s all we have. I saw a lot of iPads pointed at me when we did that Thursday night story (Chicago) about the boss (Lt. Colonel Isik) yelling at the sleeping monorail driver (Craig Sheehy) over the Victoria’s Secret store.
If anyone has any video of some of the chanting we did that night could you send it to me so that we can somehow share it with the group? In fact, if anyone has any video from either conference, maybe we can first get permission from whoever was doing the work and if they say yes we can share that footage here.
As I have said, what is really going on in a CI class is not going to be captured by any camera. But this site is about training, and we have to take risks so that teachers new and old to this work might be able to benefit even in a small way from studying whatever video we can collect. A picture is worth a thousand words.
It’s not a show, it’s teachers working hard toward a common goal to get better at something that is coming down the 21st century pike at 200 miles per hour.
That’s my video pep talk. At least think about it. It’s easy to load clips up into YouTube or Vimeo and then you just send links to me.
And think about what you saw in the Denver and Chicago War Rooms. It blew my socks off. Why not share?
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/releases/