When I Documented Play - Visual Leadership

Keeping in mind my initial tussle with documentation, I decided to make my process "Alive". I documented a session of play in my building. I was curious to observe how decisions are made, how homogeneity emerges within a group during play, and how leadership effects or creates conflict in play.  

I used notes & photographs (of important moments / mind shifts) to document my experience. 

As a part of taking documentation back, I created narrative charts which were displayed on the corridor for the children to view and contribute their own views. 

My co-documenter also helped add new frames, perspectives to what we had witnessed, making it evident that varied viewpoints actually add to the process. At the end of this experience I concluded that documenting need not be conclusive (as I had feared), if anything the process demands deep immersion and analysis, and creates dialogue to understand an environment better. 

My Documentation Plan 

Taking documentation back as wall displays.