David Woof on sun 16 oct 11
Hi John=3D2C All=3D2C
Quoting John: I know keep selecting the preset "soft fire ramp" and blowing up work
over and over.>
Aside from engineers=3D2C might we also consider the teachers who blow up l=
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ds of pottery and blame the kilns....engineers.....instructions....God...ge=
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tting some...not getting some...phase of the moon or tides.....time of the =
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month=3D2C or year.....as central to this issue?
What else do you think he/she is able to teach regarding clay and ceramics.=
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Blowing up kids pots and sculptures is a Hard act to follow!!!=3D20
(Unless one writes it into the lesson plan!!!)=3D20
At the U=3D2C "way back when"=3D2C student teachers would come rushing in a=
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class hours requesting a two hour wheel throwing "refresher" on the one be=
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ginning ceramics course they had slept through three semesters ago=3D2C bec=
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se=3D2C now! they had to go out to a real school and do their art ceramics =
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acticum tomorrow!!!
What was this Irishman to do but put tongue in cheek and suggest that I cou=
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ld best explain it over a bottle of wine at my place?=3D20
Was I a real pig or simply a realist? you decide!!! seems much hasn't chang=
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ed!!!
I observe folks coming out of grad schools waving credentials as ceramists =
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who would rather
lecture ceramic art theory than get in there=3D2C teach=3D2C get muddy and =
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work or inspire work that can stand on its own without support of a writte=
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n treatise.
Don't get me started on a Rant!!!=3DA0 Involve the students and don't try t=
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bullshit or cheat them.
David Woof....Breathing in.....Breathing out....in Clarkdale=3D2C Arizona.
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5b. Re: speed and teaching
Posted by: "John Post" johnpost@WIDEOPENWEST.COM
Date: Sun Oct 16=3D2C 2011 10:12 am ((PDT))
=3DA0An art teacher I am sharing a school with this year told me she needs
a new kiln at her other school. I asked her why. She said "The kiln
blows everything up."
It is a computer controlled kiln that was made by Evenheat with a
Perfect Fire controller. This model kiln was shipped by Evenheat with
a preset profile heating ramp of 400 degrees per hour.
Every art teacher I have helped with this model kiln has a kiln bottom
full of shards. This model kiln has probably blown up thousands of
kid sculptures because teachers don't know how to change the preset
heating ramp. The directions are in the manual=3D2C but the art teachers
I know keep selecting the preset "soft fire ramp" and blowing up work
over and over.
Evenheat doesn't sell kilns with this model controller any longer=3D2C but
it does make you wonder which engineer thought a 400 degree per hour
ramp would be useful as a " soft fire preset" heating rate.
John Post
=3DA0Sterling Heights=3D2C Michigan
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