<div dir="ltr">Hi Monique,<div><br></div><div><br></div><br>With Python, why not use something like Khan academy (<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org">https://www.khanacademy.org</a>). I have not included Python in my Blender course yet, but will in the future. Based on my experiences with Games programming using Flash, I will not be pitching it below about year 5-6 (10 year olds?). however, my experience as a teacher has mostly being secondary.<div><br><div>@Peter. I've used a similar way when teaching ActionScripting in Flash. They can attach behaviours to the graphical objects they create in flash, and I'd go the same way with Blender. Use the Game engine to create simple games that demonstrate concepts. for example drag and drop, decision statements, collision detection, etc. Over the 16 weeks I could take a class from nothing through to a clone of space invaders.<br><div><br><div>In terms of teaching blender, I take the approach of a series of tasks aimed at creating a short 10-30 video with 15 year old students. As I can not assume prior experience. I can see the same approach working with 12 y.o. </div><div><br></div><div>In order;</div><div><ol><li>Shape stack - basic UI, moving objects, and rendering a frame</li><li>Pong Task - Covers the basic UI, adding objects, moving them, key framing, rendering an animation</li><li>Star Wars Credits - Using & editing Text objects, adding materials (Blender Internal Engine), adding stars with the world settings</li><li>Cartoon Car - editing objects (basic mesh modeling), Combining simple objects into a group/parenting, </li><li>Creating the Earth - Adding multiple materials to an object including image maps, bump/texture maps. </li></ol></div><div>I am planning of putting up my course outline, but I have limited time for tasks not directly related to my current teaching load. If anyone wants the outlines, I can post copies online. I'm still to full write up the lesson plans and presentations.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jamie Le Rossignol</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 August 2015 at 03:54, Monique <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.dewanchand@atmind.nl" target="_blank">m.dewanchand@atmind.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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read this wonderful post about how you are willing to start
a project on teaching kids to use this very powerful
program. I'm willing to assist in this as well as I have 10
plus years of experience in blender and it is wonderful to
see open oppotunities like this. I'm 33 in age and I focus
on animation, modelling and cartooning. I hope this message
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My target age is a bit older but not much. I was
thinking 14 to 24.
<div>I want to teach the basics of modeling and game
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<div>I have not found much in the way of good
programming tools for learning. I have made a few
videos. Please check them out and tell me what you
think. I am a pro and not afraid of well given
crits. I am new to this idea of teaching with
videos and am learning as I go.</div>
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Past months I've been asked to give Blender
workshops to kids between 8<br>
and 16 years old. I searched for Blender
teaching material but couldn't<br>
find much. I decided to use some simple models
from Blendswap and hide<br>
the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly
this worked better than<br>
expected.<br>
The kids were very enthusiastic and could
perform the tasks pretty well.<br>
At the end I was asked how kids could continu
learning Blender.<br>
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This motivated me to start an open
website/platform in NL to teach kids<br>
more on technology, especially Blender &
Python. But what is a good<br>
format for teaching Blender to kids?<br>
Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as
kids are thaught math<br>
or grammar?<br>
Are there tutorials or program lessons available
for kids?<br>
Is anyone working on this and willing to
cooperate?<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Monique Dewanchand<br>
At Mind<br>
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