This is where we go to improve on earlier efforts, enriched by what we've learned from experimentation and feedback. Learning is not about getting things right. It's about taking risks, welcoming mistakes, dealing with haze, talking it through. It's then time to reflect and go Back to the Drawing Board...
13 February 2013
'Back to the Drawing Board'
Just testing, with the help of my models, whether it makes any difference if I write the text above the photo. Hold your breath.....
Yay!! Problem solved with a modicum of tinkering and fine-tuning. This is a perfect example of working things out by trial and error. Text, although written above, appears below on the blog. :-)
That reminds me.... did I ever tell you about the great 'distance' plumbing lesson that François Muller gave me when I was staying at their place in Bagnolet? The bathroom shower tap was on it's last legs and had a habit of shooting off and flooding the bathroom, however, with careful adjustment it could be coaxed back onto the straight and narrow. Well, I was staying there by myself when the family were down in Tarbes, and the tap did the dirty on me. I knew where to turn the water off but didn't know the 'astuce' for fixing the tap. I texted François and he tried to contact his brother (you know, first response - get a man in)but when that failed I suggested we might try a virtual repair lesson. First he sent me off to locate a set of allen keys (or was it a phillips screwdriver?) (I can't remember the translation for allen keys, and who the hell was Allen anyway?). Then, armed with the requisite tools, I effected a magnificent repair following François phone-delivered instructions. Difficult to hold a phone and grapple with a defective tap but we got there.(You'll immediately notice that I didn't think of putting the phone on speaker!!) François observed with satisfaction that it was a perfect example of peer collaborative learning. It was even more satisfying, from my point of view, as it took place entirely in French.
I do remember the story! And the learning was all the more potent that not only you were doing something (mind+body) and there was a need (and an urgent one too!)
Yay!! Problem solved with a modicum of tinkering and fine-tuning. This is a perfect example of working things out by trial and error. Text, although written above, appears below on the blog. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me.... did I ever tell you about the great 'distance' plumbing lesson that François Muller gave me when I was staying at their place in Bagnolet? The bathroom shower tap was on it's last legs and had a habit of shooting off and flooding the bathroom, however, with careful adjustment it could be coaxed back onto the straight and narrow. Well, I was staying there by myself when the family were down in Tarbes, and the tap did the dirty on me. I knew where to turn the water off but didn't know the 'astuce' for fixing the tap. I texted François and he tried to contact his brother (you know, first response - get a man in)but when that failed I suggested we might try a virtual repair lesson. First he sent me off to locate a set of allen keys (or was it a phillips screwdriver?) (I can't remember the translation for allen keys, and who the hell was Allen anyway?). Then, armed with the requisite tools, I effected a magnificent repair following François phone-delivered instructions. Difficult to hold a phone and grapple with a defective tap but we got there.(You'll immediately notice that I didn't think of putting the phone on speaker!!) François observed with satisfaction that it was a perfect example of peer collaborative learning. It was even more satisfying, from my point of view, as it took place entirely in French.
ReplyDeleteI do remember the story! And the learning was all the more potent that not only you were doing something (mind+body) and there was a need (and an urgent one too!)
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