[Bf-education] Organizing / suporting education

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Hehe, and now we have like 7-8 people stepping forward :)
Could these people tell me (here or in private) what their goal to  
achieve would be? And how?

In the mean time, you can also have more informal communication going  
on education... like meet in IRC.
The irc.freenode.net #blendereducation channel seems to have been used  
in past.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 12 Dec, 2011, at 19:16, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all replies, still seems there's a big bottleneck here...
>
> I would prefer one of you (or 3 of you) to step forward and say "I
> volunteer to help coordinating efforts here".
>
> We can make that an official "BF education board"; people who can get
> the facilities (on blender.org) to start services, or can advise me to
> specific actions or funding activities to startup stuff.... whatever
> is needed and supported by the educators here.
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org     
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> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
> Netherlands
>
> On 11 Dec, 2011, at 20:07, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I know this is a formal email list, but it would be really great to
>> have someone (or a small board) with time and energy to coordinate
>> things here.
>>
>> For me, the biggest challenge would be this:
>>
>> ** Collect & publish training material, aimed at teachers
>>
>> I mean training material that's formatted in a way you can schedule
>> classes, or programs for students lasting a semester. It can have
>> "teacher companion" material (so you can prepare well) and material  
>> to
>> hand out to students (exercises and tests).
>>
>> I've been discussing this with people several times already... and a
>> lot of people really like it, but it doesn't get a momentum yet. Main
>> challenge therefore is how to get something like this organized...
>>
>> A related topic would be this:
>>
>> ** Develop standardized tests for certification
>>
>> As discussed extensively on the Blender Conference; we can invest  
>> time
>> to provide standardized tests for trainers and schools to use for
>> students, and allow them to certify students via these tests. These
>> certifications can have a cool status but always be connected by who
>> issued it; like:
>>
>> Blender (R) Certified Specialist: Character Modeler, issued by xxx,
>> city, country.
>>
>> Also for this system I'd like to see people to investigate and
>> coordinate it.
>>
>> Laters,
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The
>> Netherlands
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