While working on my Moodle site I was made to appreciate even further the value of detail and the ability to spot minute, seemingly difficult to see differences. A wronly placed ‘<' after a '>‘ or a missing ‘/’ are so easy to mask and yet wreak havoc in overall appearance and presentation. Likewise the wonderful fullstop , which when appearing after ‘< /p >.’ made me labour over the appearance of a number of my pages. I asked myself, after mulling over certain options, ‘Could it be the fullstop?’ and it was. I was amazed that such minute details could be so difficult to pick up after going over the content several times and after many attempts at larger more obvious ‘solutions’. Hmmm…. could this be the same in education? Looking for those personalised, individualised clues and solutions that are ‘seemingly difficult to see’ in the ‘sea’ of ‘texts’ and ‘codes’ but which if missed wreak havoc on the overall outcome?
Heads up! Sometimes we have to change course, step back and look again with fresh eyes, an open mind, and new possibilities, strategies and angles.