[Bf-education] Sans shortcut keys

[Alberto Torres]

Start dragging with MMB and hold ALT.


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Kernon Dillon <kernond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, that's an interesting experiment. Keep us posted.
> Kernon
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Edwin Pilobello <e_pilobello at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I just started a class for under-priveledged kids.  Their school does not
>> have
>> the latest computers.  So I brought a mobile lab of 6 Dell XPS laptops.
>> Wide
>> and heavy models, which I thought came with full keyboards...but not.  So
>> I
>> changed my approach.
>>
>> I decided to leave the shortcuts out and just use the menus.  Our first
>> use of
>> the menus was in changing views: top, front, right, etc.  The kids were to
>> duplicate the block 5 times and build a pyramid by grabbing the widgets
>> and
>> positioning the blocks.  They were to make sure that the blocks aligned by
>> switching between the views and use MMB for spinning/zooming.  The
>> objective
>> being to recognize how 3D space is organized.
>>
>> It worked!  This early in the game, eliminating the tactile numpad
>> shortcut
>> procedures removed that much of a cognitive load.
>>
>> I'm sure we'll be using S, R and G next week.  So we'll see how they tap
>> with
>> the left hand and mouse with the right hand.
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