Hi Robert,<br><br>I recently taught a summer camp for grades 2-6. It was "The Way Things Work" so I used Blender as an example of how movies and video games are made. It's a hands-on course, so I also wanted to get them to use blender. This is what I did - it worked well for a class of 10 kids with 2 helpers:<br>
<br>1. Show a phymec video of bullet physics in blender for motivation: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPu9_OGFgc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPu9_OGFgc</a><br>(nothing gets kids excited like explosions)<br>
<br>2. Day 1: 20 mins. Have the kids add mesh shapes to a scene. Teach them to pan, rotate and zoom with the mouse. (If you're short on 3 button mice, you'll need to show how to set 3 button mouse emulation in User Preferences).<br>
<br>3. Day 2: 30 mins. Show kids how to add rigid body physics to objects with a static ground-plane. Show them how to add a simple material color as well. Common gotcha: kids couldn't find Game Engine mode. Mouse pointer must be in 3d Viewport for press "p" to start engine.<br>
<br>4. Day 3: 20 mins. Practice more physics.<br><br>5. Day 4: 40 mins. Show kids how to add an actor to a scene connected to keyboard control using logic bricks. Kids grasped this surprisingly fast. One kid added jump and had a game concept of pushing logs around a scene by the end of day 4. He also figured out how to mimick explosions by creating a bunch of objects and placing them in the scene so their collision bounds intersect. Press "p" = exploision = happy kids.<br>
<br>Special considerations:<br>I was working with dyslexic kids who have a particularly hard time with clutter on a page. To ease the clutter of the blender UI I<br>1. Set the font size to near the maximum (max setting pushes some options like Game Engine off the toolbar!) in User Preferences.Settings.<br>
2. I discovered that i could disappear un-needed UI by r-clicking on panels, choosing "Edit Source" and disabling parts of the python code. I didn't get too far with this, but it would be a good thing for blender or blenderNation to ship a simple GUI option for really young kids.<br>
<br>Overall impressions: the kids were talking about it on the playground and some advanced students got pretty closed to making a game that "They would actually want to play".<br><br>kesten<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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From: Knapp <<a href="mailto:magick.crow@gmail.com">magick.crow@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [Bf-education] A Blender Sponsored Learning Assets CD<br>
To: <a href="mailto:gferrop@gmail.com">gferrop@gmail.com</a>, Blender Educators and Trainers<br>
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I am looking for someone with the time to monitor a Blender sponsored<br>
learning assets CD.<br>
I would need to check the entries for quality and OK them and help artists<br>
to understand the open licence.<br>
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Subject: Re: [Bf-education] A Blender Sponsored Learning Assets CD<br>
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I would be interested in more details on the learning assets CD - I'm<br>
working on building a learning library of templates as well.<br>
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I am also writing a thesis on teaching Blender3d/art/computer science<br>
in classrooms. The first test project is this week.<br>
What ideas do you have on sparking a 1st grader's imagination or interest?<br>
I was thinking of showing previews from BBB, a Blender3d demo reel,<br>
some gallery objects, BlendSwap, and some animations, then opening up<br>
templates, change colors in the compositor, and show them how to modify<br>
basic content and render out a scene. I have 50 minutes to schedule<br>
around. This is a nice opportunity to educate. Suggestions or ideas<br>
would be great!(I'm also trying to work with average attention span<br>
limits ~ 6-10 minutes per video/demo)<br>
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-Robert<br>
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On 9/21/2012 1:22 AM, Knapp wrote:<br>
> I am looking for someone with the time to monitor a Blender sponsored<br>
> learning assets CD.<br>
> I would need to check the entries for quality and OK them and help<br>
> artists to understand the open licence.<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Douglas E Knapp<br>
><br>
> Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies<br>
> with open source software!<br>
> <a href="http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php" target="_blank">http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php</a><br>
><br>
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> <a href="http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm" target="_blank">http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm</a><br>
> Please link to me and trade links with me!<br>
><br>
> Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.<br>
> <a href="http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page" target="_blank">http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page</a><br>
> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/</a><br>
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