[Bf-education] short intro to blender

Wed Dec 30 10:29:47 CET 2015

What do the kids want to make? What do they want to do and what do they
want to see?
Thanks!

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:16 AM, leung, ann [SD] <ann.leung at polyu.edu.hk>
wrote:

> Thanks Pete and all for sharing your materials. Am currently teaching a
> Blender workshop series for 14-16 years old Hong Kong students but I only
> have a very simple website. Pls. feel free to use any of those open
> resources
>
>
> http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-03-workshop.html
>
> http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-02-workshop.html
>
> http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-01-workshop.html
>
> <http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-03-workshop.html>
> <http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-03-workshop.html>
> I MAKE 03 Workshop <http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-03-workshop.html>
> osmmhk.weebly.com
> I MAKE Workshop is a collaborative workshop series tailor-made for The
> Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Design (SD) 'Creative use of
> 3D Printing technologies' event. Participants (local...
> Wish you all Happy New Year
>
> ann leung
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* bf-education-bounces at blender.org <bf-education-bounces at blender.org>
> on behalf of Peter Kemp <peterejkemp at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 30 December 2015 01:31
> *To:* bf-education at blender.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Bf-education] short intro to blender
>
> Hi All,
>
> Over at 3Dami.org we have been putting together a 2-3 hour introduction to
> blender aimed at 11-16+ year olds (
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NOQLNcJpay-PKgRJHdkiBRhqqNFz9Z0peX8kcn3N5X0/edit#).
> The aim is to take students through the basics of:
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Loading Blender and *moving *and *adding *objects to make a monkey
>    going to a party
>    2.
>
>    *Resizing *objects and making trees
>    3.
>
>    *Rotating *objects and making a snowman
>    4.
>
>    *Colouring *your snowman in
>    5.
>
>    *Modelling *(pick either a or b, or both!)
>    1.
>
>       Modelling a house (simple)
>       2.
>
>       Modelling a rocket (advanced)
>       6.
>
>    *Animating *a winter scene
>    7. Making your animation into a film by using *rendering*
>
>
> We've tested it with several hundred students in the UK and you can see
> some of the results here:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmkCkft8fU
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2NMZqL8WfA
>
> All instruction videos use simple English and are aimed to be less than 5
> minutes long.
>
> I've also been working on a 30 minute intro, output here:
>
> https://twitter.com/peterejkemp/status/671674794929225728
>
> We're working on a 6 week course. All open source.
>
> All the best
> Pete
>
>
>
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>> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:34:56 -0500
>> From: Lee Butler <iraytrace at gmail.com>
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>> So I'd be interested in feedback and collaboration on my tutorials. I
>> have a few up online at
>> https://youtu.be/ltYU968KtHc?list=PLRjMVdQC-k0451QnOfRhb_PCZ7D48z4nL for
>> anyone who wants to see.  Let me know what you think.  I'd like to trim
>> these down to just about 5 minutes, but haven't had time to work on them
>> recently.
>>
>> When I teach, I generally lead off with the first two topics, then move
>> into either animation (03) or modelling (04) depending on what activity
>> the students will do.  If we are doing 3D printing I head to 04.  If we
>> are doing CGI I do 03.  Right now I am working on a set of videos that
>> will let the kids do CGI so they can "throw fireballs".  We're tracking
>> hands and using the particle system to create the "magic fire".
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>> On 12/22/2015 12:06 PM, Alyssa Stevensen 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
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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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