Everyone learns in different ways and what one ringer finds useful might make no sense to another. For this reason it’s always useful to have a variety of visual aids which may help demonstrate concepts in ringing which are not always easy to explain.

Before you start though, think about these things:

• How do YOU learn? What kind of visual aid might have helped you?
• Which bits of ringing did you struggle with, and what was the catalyst for overcoming your difficulty? Could your own experience be used to make a useful visual aid?

Understanding exactly where people experience difficulties will help you to make a more useful aid.

 

Some Suggestions

• Flash cards to understand ringing jargon.
• ‘Ringing jigsaw’ – different pieces of work drawn separately then joined up to make the whole method.
• Magnetic board with coloured magnets to demonstrate place changing in call changes or to show rows of changes, or a nail board with regular rows of nails to represent bell positions. Tie a length of coloured wool or string to each nail and use the wool to show the path of each bell through the method.
• Large drawing of a bell with detachable cards naming each part.
• More ambitiously, a simple model to show how the different parts of a bell move while it is being rung.
• For an even bigger project, install CCTV with a camera trained on a single bell so you can show how a bell is raised/lowered/rung while it’s actually happening.
• If you’re training people using an online course, consider writing PowerPoints, making a video or providing a webinar with slides.

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