<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Pete. You are an education boss.</div><div>I know your work and I Iove it.</div><div>In particular, I use Code Club method and I'd want analyze your PhD document.</div><div>I teach in an italian school with children from 11-14 and I use Blender in my special project in many groups.</div><div>I'm available for all.</div><div>Thank you very much in advance.</div><div>Fiorentino Sarro.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Dear All,<br><br>Just a quick overview of what we're doing in the UK at the moment<br>(everything is free):<br><br>An open source (OGL) 6 week scheme of work for Blender, funded by the UK<br>government and being used in schools with 11-14 year olds in England:<br><a href="https://teachcomputing.org/curriculum/key-stage-3/media-animations" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://teachcomputing.org/curriculum/key-stage-3/media-animations</a><br>(no login required version:<br><a href="https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/481551/media-%E2%80%93-animations" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/481551/media-%E2%80%93-animations</a><br>)<br><br>After school club resources used in code clubs around the world:<br><a href="https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?software%5B%5D=blender" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?software%5B%5D=blender</a><br><<a href="https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?software[0]=blender&fbclid=IwAR3hNh6GYfZTxy6mmlWx_t35S82I2fVpmMziHDq_rJVZXcv0kl_3BnK9wJQ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?software[0]=blender&fbclid=IwAR3hNh6GYfZTxy6mmlWx_t35S82I2fVpmMziHDq_rJVZXcv0kl_3BnK9wJQ</a>><br>This was built off the work we've been doing with Monique and Jerome over<br>at <a href="https://b3d101.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://b3d101.org/</a><br><br>Current UK industry funded initiative to support children learning<br>animation, including:<br>- 10 week after school club to teach Blender to 13-18 year olds<br>- 3Dami 10 day summer camp <<a href="https://younganimator.uk/3dami-summer-studio" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://younganimator.uk/3dami-summer-studio</a>>,<br>making a film using Blender (we've run this since 2012 and believe we were<br>the largest Blender studio in the world for a while!)<br>- Weekly challenges set by industry, including one entirely in Blender<br><<a href="https://younganimator.uk/challenge/1620136016628x232387658014884700" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://younganimator.uk/challenge/1620136016628x232387658014884700</a>><br>- a national competition <<a href="https://younganimator.uk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://younganimator.uk/</a>> with a 3D animation<br>category<br><br>My recent World Blender Day talk on the pedagogy of teaching children (and<br>everyone else!) Blender through tutorials:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3ow--DYfQ&t=34574s" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3ow--DYfQ&t=34574s</a><br><br>And finally, my PhD, which makes the argument for using Blender in<br>education over other 3D animation commercial products (mostly chapter 3.5):<br><a href="https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/3217463/Learning_pathways_for_digitally_creative_youth.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/3217463/Learning_pathways_for_digitally_creative_youth.pdf</a><br><br>I'm obviously focused on pre-uni work and it would be great to have more<br>pre-18 Blender work celebrated.<br><br>All the best<br>Pete<br></blockquote></div>