I've reread my UR5e workshop review and somehow turned an afternoon of loading enclosures into me setting up a cell. I didn't. The demonstrator had prepared the tray, tool and transfer sequence, and stayed beside me while I used it. I liked using it, that part is honest. But a colleague read the review and asked if I could prepare the next session on my own. That's the bit I need to put right without making the whole experience sound worthless
Linda, 'I had it transferring parts after a quick introduction.' I meant I was using it. Reading that now, I'd make the same assumption. Hazel, I loaded the tray and followed the demonstrator's prompts to run the prepared exercise.
I would keep the help visible in the main review, not hide it in a correction underneath. People skim the happy opening and pass it around. Who will show your colleague what preparation actually involved?
Sam, yes, I was told which exercise to select. Adrian, on the second tray I remembered the loading order but still asked before starting. I don't want to turn that into 'independent operation' either.
I see this in teaching reports. 'I made it work' sometimes means a student solved a problem, and sometimes means I spent an hour preparing it and they pressed the expected button. Both can be useful learning, but I cannot assess the next lesson from that sentence. Nadia, what did you understand better by the end?
I understood why the enclosure had to sit the right way round in the tray. On the first tray I was just matching the example. On the second I could explain which face the tool needed and spotted one I'd loaded backwards.
Eric, I wasn't asking for a confession. I want the person planning the next workshop to notice the preparation before they book Nadia to do it. That misunderstanding has already happened.
I've replaced the quick-introduction sentence and added the tray example. Also told my colleague directly that I can't prepare their session. They'd only been asking, not booking me, fortunately.
Yes! That's still the first line. Thanks, Linda, the question about what I learned gave me something worth writing instead of a list of things I can't do.