[Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2

Peter Kemp peterejkemp at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 21:46:35 CEST 2015 

We're been given funding by the Google CS4HS
<http://www.cs4hs.com/current-programs/>project to put together a Blender
course for English schools, the material is open source and available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NOQLNcJpay-PKgRJHdkiBRhqqNFz9Z0peX8kcn3N5X0/edit

The course is currently 3 hours long and we've had some success over the
last few months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2NMZqL8WfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmkCkft8fU

More coming soon!

Pete

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> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:32:13 +0200
> From: Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>
> Subject: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> expected.
> The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
>
> This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> format for teaching Blender to kids?
> Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> or grammar?
> Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
>
> Kind regards,
> Monique Dewanchand
> At Mind
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:31:41 +0200
> From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
> To: m.dewanchand at atmind.nl,     Blender Educators and Trainers
>         <bf-education at blender.org>
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> In a way I am focused on this project. My target age is a bit older but not
> much. I was thinking 14 to 24.
> I want to teach the basics of modeling and game programming.
>
> I have not found much in the way of good programming tools for learning. I
> have made a few videos. Please check them out and tell me what you think. I
> am a pro and not afraid of well given crits. I am new to this idea of
> teaching with videos and am learning as I go.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfsIkrFlGyqDtGzKj8B3bw
> I am also very fond of Pygame and Panda3d.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> > and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> > find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> > the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> > expected.
> > The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> > At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
> >
> > This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> > more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> > format for teaching Blender to kids?
> > Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> > or grammar?
> > Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> > Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > At Mind
> > _______________________________________________
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>
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> Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.
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> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:33:35 +0200
> From: eberhard noack <eberhard.noack at gmx.de>
> Subject: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
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> Hi monique,
> I teach  Blender workshops for kids( aged12 between15)as well.
> first the kids learn something about differences of  3d projection( i.e.
> Orthographic and perspective ).
> the next step is modeling some simple object like a house or a (simple
> car).The most problems what the kids have  during the learning process is
> the part of UV Mapping/ Texturing in Blender, because a little bit too
> abstract for them.
> But they like all the ways of animation.
> Monique, think it is a good Idea to create an internet platform especial
> for kids and would cooperate with you
>
> Kind regards
> Ebi noack from cologne(germany)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:40:49 +0200
> From: eberhard noack <eberhard.noack at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
> To: m.dewanchand at atmind.nl,     Blender Educators and Trainers
>         <bf-education at blender.org>
> Message-ID: <86E48AC6-DBC2-453D-B0D0-229F3BDA9FB1 at gmx.de>
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> Hi monique,
> I teach  Blender workshops for kids( aged12 between15)as well.
> first the kids learn something about differences of  3d projection( i.e.
> Orthographic and perspective ).
> the next step is modeling some simple object like a house or a (simple
> car).The most problems what the kids have  during the learning process is
> the part of UV Mapping/ Texturing in Blender, because a little bit too
> abstract for them.
> But they like all the ways of animation.
> Monique, think it is a good Idea to create an internet platform especial
> for kids and would cooperate with you
>
> Kind regards
> Ebi noack from cologne(germany)
> Am 11.08.2015 um 20:32 schrieb Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> > and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> > find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> > the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> > expected.
> > The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> > At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
> >
> > This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> > more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> > format for teaching Blender to kids?
> > Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> > or grammar?
> > Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> > Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > At Mind
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bf-education mailing list
> > Bf-education at blender.org
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:40:47 +0200
> From: Chuck Ian Gordon <chuck.gordon at gamew0rldz.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
> To: bf-education at blender.org
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> Hi Monique,
>
> I won't be able to contribute regularly but maybe I can give some
> inspiration.
>
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery is quoted: "If you want to build a ship, don't
> drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but
> rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
>
> I experience the deep truth in that in our teamwork, in business and in
> everything regarding blender.
>
> If you give the kids a (team) task, a project of appropriate difficulty
> that they can create with blender
> and they are enthusiastic about it, they will learn the technical
> details with ease because they want to achieve it.
>
> Let's say you let them create an animated shortfilm of one minute.
> They need to come up with a story, plan the making,
> need to learn how to model, how to rig, how to animate, (to composite),
> to render
> and to combine it and maybe cut it in the Video sequence editor.
> They will probably be very proud when they upload it to youtube.
>
> I think, if you create lessons about how to do every part of the project,
> they probably will suck it up quickly and surprise you with something more.
>
> Maybe an additional kids-movie-competition on top of that might fuel
> interest even more.
>
>  From what I have seen so far written tutorials are good as well as well
> done video tutorials
> that concentrate on the essence of the tasks.
>
> Not really for kids, but really great are the blender tutorials
> (artisticly written and also video tutorials) of
> http://www.creativeshrimp.com/
>
> Compare them to many other blender tutorials and you will see the
> difference.
>
> So far for my thoughts.
>
> Kind regards and all the best for your creation!
> Chuck
>
> P.S. Please keep us informed of your progress and the site we later can
> find the stuff.
> My son is four years now. I would be glad if he could start with this at
> 6  or 7 :-)
>
>
>
>
> On 11.08.2015 20:32, Monique wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> > and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> > find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> > the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> > expected.
> > The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> > At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
> >
> > This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> > more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> > format for teaching Blender to kids?
> > Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> > or grammar?
> > Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> > Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > At Mind
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bf-education mailing list
> > Bf-education at blender.org
> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-education
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