[Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9

Dina Herrington dherrington2001 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 21:16:23 CET 2011 

Colin and all,

I'm former director of Emergency Medical Services at Drexel
Universality College of Medicine. I'm still currently adjunct faculty.
I am working on creating a game design program for inner city tweens
and teens at the Philadelphia Recreation Center where I work. We also
do a lot of basic computer skills training - mostly for seniors -
these kids are already amazing with e-mail and social media.

We are excited about blender b/c it is free, and has great
capabilities.  In addition, I am working with the Occupy Philadelphia
Faculty working group. One of our goals is to create computer and
other skills training as cheaply as possible using volunteer faculty.

We could use any advice on Blender training and Adobe skills  and
resources for software. Adobe aint cheap! But Blender is awesome!!!

Regards, Dina


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> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:09:20 +0000
> From: Colin Maxwell <colin.maximized at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bf-education] Introduction
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> Hi,
> I'm Colin Maxwell, a lecturer at Carnegie College in Scotland.
> We've been developing new qualifications in game development over the past
> year and a few schools and colleges have started trialling it this academic
> session, with many more expected to do so next year.
> I've been using Blender with my students for 2 years now and am now trying
> to champion its cause within schools and colleges in Scotland. Although
> there are many different tools for making games, and many are free, I feel
> that Blender has a lot more to offer as it can be used for many different
> areas such as animation, modelling, visual effects and games.
> It is such a shame that this education mailing list is so inactive, but I
> am still hoping to make contact with other educators who use Blender.
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
> --
> Colin Maxwell
> Adobe Education Leader
> @camaxwell <http://www.twitter.com/camaxwell>
> www.maximized.co.uk
> colinmaxwell.wordpress.com
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> From: "Blasgund Brian" <Brian.Blasgund at polytechnic.wa.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Introduction
> To: "Blender Educators and Trainers" <bf-education at blender.org>
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> Hi Colin,
> I am Brian Blasgund a Lecturer in Multimedia /IT at Polytechnic West in Perth Western Australia I have taught with blender for four years and love it love the games engine. Need to upgrade my skills as I cannot create the old split screen game as rasterization function in python seems to be superseded but hey its all development of skills, if you want contact then hey hi!
>
> Regards
> Brian Blasgund
> Lecturer IT/Multimedia
> Midland Campas
> Colour.gif
> 0438 938 364
> Brian.Blasgund at polytechnic.wa.edu.au
> www.polytechnic.wa.edu.au
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> From: bf-education-bounces at blender.org on behalf of Colin Maxwell
> Sent: Sun 27/11/2011 8:09 PM
> To: bf-education at blender.org
> Subject: [Bf-education] Introduction
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>
> Hi,
> I'm Colin Maxwell, a lecturer at Carnegie College in Scotland.
> We've been developing new qualifications in game development over the past year and a few schools and colleges have started trialling it this academic session, with many more expected to do so next year.
> I've been using Blender with my students for 2 years now and am now trying to champion its cause within schools and colleges in Scotland. Although there are many different tools for making games, and many are free, I feel that Blender has a lot more to offer as it can be used for many different areas such as animation, modelling, visual effects and games.
> It is such a shame that this education mailing list is so inactive, but I am still hoping to make contact with other educators who use Blender.
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
> --
> Colin Maxwell
> Adobe Education Leader
> @camaxwell <http://www.twitter.com/camaxwell>
> www.maximized.co.uk <http://www.maximized.co.uk/>
> colinmaxwell.wordpress.com <http://colinmaxwell.wordpress.com/>
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>
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> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:06:30 -0600
> From: Kesten Broughton <solarmobiletrailers at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bf-education] breaking into the montreal scene
> To: bf-education at blender.org
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> You have to throw a free poutine party. :)
>
> Well, that's actually a very tough one, because Softimage is headquartered
> in Montreal with about 100 employees.  It's a source of pride to have a
> local company go really big.  I think it would take a blockbuster game or
> movie + a production ready release of blender a few months before the
> softimage:autodesk launch.  Plus a ton of old-fashioned community building
> - boot camps, socials... and you have to be fashion-sexy in montreal.
>
> k
>
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>>   1. Re: Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5 (Ton Roosendaal)
>>   2. My Input (Adamson, Thomas)
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>> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:40:08 +0100
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5
>> To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Montreal has a huge 3d industry... many studios there. It would be
>> interesting to find out what we can do to break the Autodesk dominance
>> there.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>>
>> On 25 Nov, 2011, at 19:01, James Halliwell wrote:
>>
>> > No plans to visit LA, but on the Blender 3d education side of
>> > things, working with the City of Montreal, I have arranged to begin
>> > a Blender 3D club with the use of the resources  and space they will
>> > provide. If the popularity and interest of the Club is good, they
>> > are open to adding Blender 3D courses to the list of computer
>> > courses that are currently provided. Planned start is Jan 2012.
>> >
>> > A sad thing I find in Montreal is that some places advertise Blender
>> > courses but do not give them. This inculdes The National Film Board
>> > and a place called  Centre NAD. Centre NAD has not given a Blender
>> > courses after the last ones give by Jean Francois Guillmette.
>> > Blender is being used to attract students and then  3D Max other are
>> > promoted and taught. I am sure this is hurting Blender overall in
>> > Montreal. I have written to these groups in the hope that they would
>> > stop this practice, but to no avail.
>> >
>> > Blender Rocks!
>> >
>> >
>> > James Halliwell
>> > Montreal QC
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > From: bf-education-request at blender.org
>> > > Subject: Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5
>> > > To: bf-education at blender.org
>> > > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:01 +0100
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>> > > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:33:40 +0100
>> > > From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> > > Subject: [Bf-education] Siggraph educator Birds of Feather
>> > > To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > Marc Barr, SIGGRAPH Education Committee Chair, has asked me if
>> > Blender
>> > > Foundation would be interested organizing a "Birds of a Feather" for
>> > > educators.
>> > >
>> > > It could be about free/open learning of 3D creation at schools/
>> > > colleges. Stuff that's by-default not possible with Adesk sw :)
>> > >
>> > > Although I think it's cool to have educators meet there and discuss
>> > > matters, it would be much more interesting if such a BoF would be
>> > > presented/hosted well, with use cases and some presenters.
>> > >
>> > > Anyone on this list interested, and already planning to visit
>> > Siggraph
>> > > LA 2012?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > -Ton-
>> > >
>> > >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation ton at blender.org www.blender.org
>> > > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands
>> > >
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>> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:06:31 -0500
>> From: "Adamson, Thomas" <T.Adamson at snhu.edu>
>> Subject: [Bf-education] My Input
>> To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> Folks,
>>  I am currently teaching game design and development at Southern New
>> Hampshire University (snhu.edu).  We introduce UDK3, Unity, and Blender
>> as well as Maya and Z-Brush.  I will not be attending any conferences,
>> however if there is anyway I may contribute to this project, please let me
>> know.  Currently we are working on Interactive Story Telling (IS) using
>> HTML5.  I think Blender with its Python programming base would be an
>> excellent candidate for IS.  If you wish, you may view my YouTube training
>> videos in C++, HTML5, and Blender (prof.t.adamson).
>>  Keep up the excellent work with Blender.
>>  Tom Adamson
>>  Visiting Assistant Professor
>>  Computer Game Design and Development
>>  Southern New Hampshire University
>>  t.adamson at snhu.edu
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