[Bf-education] Blender Foundation Certified Trainer (BFCT) - application process maybe broken

[Marcelo V]

(now in the right thread)


My application to BFCT did not work and there is a chance that the process is broken somewhere.

I initially applied and my first submission had some missing information. Fair enough, I followed the suggestions sent by Willem (thanks a lot for the attention BTW) and created a webpage with all required information.
Next, I submitted the eForm twice. However, for both attempts, despite I got a "Thank you" webpage after committing the application, I did not get the auto reply email.
 Therefore, I tried for the third time but submitting with a different email address. At this last time I did get an auto-reply email fine. However,  according to Willem, no entry was found in the server.

Therefore, my application did not go through despite all of my attempts.


Regards,
Marcelo



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 From: Dolf Veenvliet <dolf at macouno.com>
To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 9:38:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender user certification
 


Hi everyone,

This discussion has indeed been going, on and off, for multiple years.

Piotr: you talk a lot about the tasks you set your students, but not their exams... and perhaps that is what this discussion is about? How do you decide your students finished the course successfully, or failed?

Octavio, do you have students asking your for certification? And if so... certification as what? And... if so... then do you already give them a certificate? We can all always give students a piece of paper that says they completed a course in Blender that we taught... and if you are a certified trainer, that could already be worth a lot? Is the Blender foundation needed for this, or is it just a couple teachers getting together?

Is it a good idea to do Blender certification (blender basics/advanced), or Skill based certification (3d modelling/animation)?

And... how to test this? Some basic 3d knowledge can be done multiple choice, but I guess there will always be a part that's "artistic/subjective".

Dp;f



On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Guillermo J Ferro P <gferrop at gmail.com> wrote:

I am very interested
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>2013/12/4 Octavio Mendez <octavio at g-blender.org>
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>>Time ago we discuss about a blender user certification on this list, and sadly we do not reach any result. Since then, has been growing interest in the subject by blender students, schools, and training centers.
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>>I would like to bring back the topic and see if we can work together on that:
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>>Ton suggests not to put the efforts on the certification itself, but on the creation of standardized tests (like "Basic modeling") and offer this to schools and colleges to certify students with. 
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>>He suggest to: "you can name it very smart in a way people perceive it as official, but the certificate would still be officiallly issued by the school itself. It is what Adobe does for photoshop for example."
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>>Who are interested? :)
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