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On 14/04/11 09:47, Javier Kitainik wrote:
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type="cite">Hello Everybody<br>
<br>
We start to teach in Blender courses here in Buenos Aires
Argentina, at the UTN (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional). These
couses are in spanish languaje thinked for all the latin american
comunity.<br>
We have 3 diferents levels of courses - I´ll send you the courses
link for more information (in spanish):<br>
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href="http://www.sceu.frba.utn.edu.ar/cursosfooter/diseno-multimedial/animacion-audiovisual-3d">http://www.sceu.frba.utn.edu.ar/cursosfooter/diseno-multimedial/animacion-audiovisual-3d</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Prof. Javier Kitainik<br>
SCEU-FRBA UTN<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Edwin
Pilobello <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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padding-left: 1ex;">Starting up an Intro to Blender 3D class
for teens tomorrow. It'll be a 3<br>
hour class for 5 Saturdays at Portland State University.<br>
<br>
I'm going to start this class off like I fell into when using
laptops without<br>
numeric keypads. I'm going to skip the keyboard shortcuts.
It seemed to reduce<br>
cognitive load by just using the mouse to choose options over
remembering<br>
shortcuts and using two hands. I believe they would really
appreciate shortcuts<br>
later after they've absorbed the basic concepts of 3D objects
and manipulation.<br>
<br>
My last class at a Title I school (at least 70% of the student
in the free lunch<br>
program) gave me a lot of challenges. There was one 5th grade
girl (~11 years<br>
old) who was having a lot of difficulty animating a ball
bouncing off a block <br>
The rest of the class made relatively quick work of
positioning the ball,<br>
inserting a keyframe, moving the ball, inserting the next
keyframe and reducing<br>
the height and interval until the ball came to a rest. After
a lot of effort to<br>
try to help this girl understand and do, I finally decided to
play a counting<br>
game. We were to alternately count off even numbers. She
couldn't make it to<br>
20!!! She couldn't get past 10 when counting by 3s.<br>
<br>
The rest of the class just shook their heads. I was somewhat
dumbfounded to<br>
discover an 11 year old with very little number sense. So
moving something over<br>
time and space was way beyond her comprehension.<br>
<br>
Oh well!<br>
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Muchas gracias!! Al fin in spanish!!<br>
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