[Bf-education] New to the list

[Knapp]

You guys have a film curriculum? I will try and make it.
State how long, what subject and details you think are important. Perhaps
you can work together on this.
Best,
Douglas

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Alyssa Stevensen <
alyssa.stevensen at sleepyeye.mntm.org> wrote:

> I teach Blender to High school students, and I agree with you with the
> need for bite sized informational pieces.  Our school does not block
> Youtube, so I can gather the project based ones from there or directly from
> the Blender site, but oftentimes they are too complex even for the high
> school students.  I went to school for computer animation, so I can usually
> get by with the small stuff, but it would be great to have access to
> chunked lessons that I can have my student's review.
>
> As for a common "marketplace" for things of this nature, I haven't a clue,
> but if you happen to get them downloaded somewhere, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alyssa Stevensen
> Visual Arts Instructor
> Sleepy Eye Public School
> 400 4th Ave. SW
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bf-education-bounces at blender.org [mailto:
> bf-education-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Lee Butler
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:52 AM
> To: bf-education at blender.org
> Subject: [Bf-education] New to the list
>
> Howdy,
>
> I thougth I'd introduce myself.  I've using Blender for a decade and for
> the past 5 years teaching middle school kids to use Blender.  Is anyone
> else working with kids and Blender?
>
> I've created a number of video tutorials and I'm thinking of putting them
> online to share.  I'm thinking youtube but I'd like to have someplace that
> we can download from easily so we can put them on local machines.  Most
> schools seem to block youtube so the download is necessary.  What are
> people using?
>
> My feeling is that most existing online tutorials are project oriented and
> a little too long (> 5 minutes).  The students need bite-sized tasks that
> have a payoff.  They seem to be pretty good at using different skills to
> create a final project.  For example, I start them out with a
> 5 minute video on the Blender interface.  Then I have a number of short
> ones on modeling, animation, tracking, etc.
>
> Lee
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Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.
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