[Bf-education] Maine educator, downloadable classes Bf-education Digest, Vol 205, Issue 1

Wed Jun 16 14:19:33 CEST 2021

Hello,

I’m Josh Archer and I’m a private digital arts tutor based in northern Maine. My background is in television and I have 20 years of experience in video production. I’ve been using Blender since 2010 for commercial production and began teaching Blender to students in grades 4-8 in my area last year while working for a local non profit. This month I’ve started my own private tutoring https://calfpath.net for grades 4-12.

I’d love to help support the Blender community in any fashion.

The idea of ‘downloadable classes’ Ton mentioned would be great, especially for students in my rural area. As educators, what’s recommended for hosting class files? Is there a plan to host educator profiles at blender.org? My apologies if this has already been addressed.

Thank you,

Josh

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> Hello, my name is Peter Romero. I have worked in media arts and technology
> for over 30 years, and concur with my colleague Achim Harhoff. I now run
> a nonprofit called, "Leonardo's Apprentice," and teach science, engineering
> and the Arts as a complete program. We are not STEM or STEAM, although we
> do work to similar goals. For years I taught media production, everything
> from storyboarding to post production at the secondary level. I focused
> more on the art of photography and filming. In the senior year, the
> student's capstone project was to make a 5 minute video. The students
> would always ask, "That's it? Only 5-minutes? What are we going to do for
> the rest of the year?" Well, interesting enough, writing a script, making
> a storyboard, finding actors and locations, rehearsing actors, learning
> about lighting, sound (including foley), and blender barely got them to the
> end. They had to model a 3d object that would have to be placed into their
> film, during editing. It was supposed to blend in as part of a scene like
> their green screen scenes. Anyway, it was fun and now several of the
> students are in the industry as directors, editors, lighting, and even
> writing. I have to agree with Ton, certification just means you know the
> technology but the real skill being hired is seeing results as an artist in
> the field. One of my friends who works for the DisneyImagineers told me
> that when they hire an artist they don't want to see the interviewee's best
> three pictures but 50 images showing from beginning to present. Why? They
> are looking for progression and improvement--in short, a person who is
> showing growth in the art. If I can help, let me know. Peter
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>> Hello from Germany!
>> I am a teacher for music and biology and have also led school work groups
>> in the field of media production.
>> in my eyes, Blender 3D is a great learning world where you can gain
>> diverse experiences in artistic-technical important areas. That's why I
>> would like to push the idea that every school should offer appropriate
>> educational opportunities.
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>> Von: Bf-education <bf-education-bounces at blender.org> im Auftrag von
>> Fiorentino Sarro <fiore.sarro at gmail.com>
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>> Hi. I'm Fiorentino Sarro from Italy.
>> I know the Blender Foundation idea about Education and I agree with Ton's
>> suggests.
>> For example we'd can create a workgroup for talking about it. I'm
>> available for organizing.
>> If you are interested reply here or send me a mail with some informations.
>> Best regards.
>> Fiorentino Sarro.
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>> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 10:11:21 +0200
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org<mailto:ton at blender.org>>
>> To: bf-education at blender.org<mailto:bf-education at blender.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 199, Issue 1
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to remind everyone that we dropped the Blender Trainer
>> Certifications last year. It's not a strategic goal Blender Foundation
>> will put efforts in.
>>
>> Let's not start a discussion on this again. That decision is final. I
>> expect is that this creates space for the community (commercial
>> educators, institutions) to develop their own certifications instead.
>> Further, most 3D tools use similar concepts nowadays. Learning the
>> software is nothing compared to learning how to become a good artist or
>> developer - that is where the real challenge for educators is!
>>
>> Please also absorb the super simple and focused Blender mission and
>> vision station; it should work as inspiration for what we can do to help
>> everyone.
>>
>> https://www.blender.org/about/
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>> Ideas that are possible are for example;
>>
>> - offering/developing downloadable classes (with trainer acompanion) for
>> various learning goals or age groups.
>> - a section on the website with a good overview of external public
>> (free/open) learning portals.
>> - a more active volunteering group helping out other educators with
>> questions.
>> - ideas for localization of content, and how to offer this.
>>
>> Anything is welcome that will help everyone to help themselves, that's
>> the open source spirit. The ultimate goal should be that you don't need
>> us :)
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>> Thanks,
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>> -Ton-
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