[Bf-education] What lights their interest?
Lee Butler
iraytrace at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 02:31:17 CET 2016
What do you find engages kids? I am looking for new ideas. The
following have worked well for some of them:
1) model something that becomes physical through 3D printing:
Cups and trinkets like Pokemon balls are popular
2) make a video with CGI where they are personally in the scene. For
example, throw fireballs, green screen yourself into a 3D room you created.
3) using the physics simulation engines for smoke / fire / water. Lots
of kids like lighting Suzanne (the monkey) on fire or making her dance
to music. Strange but true.
I like to look for what they end up doing with the tools once they've
been shown them to get insight.
I'd like to know what types of things others have found excites students.
Lee
On 12/30/2015 10:30 PM, leung, ann [SD] wrote:
>
> My students will participate in a 3D printing competition so they will
> create any kind of artifacts and it's really up to them to decide what
> they want to do.
>
>
> After two to three classes, some get fascinated by 3D modeling and
> asked lots of questions about their ideas while half of them (there're
> in total 50 students from 3 different schools) were having fun with
> Blender. The competition will take place in May so plenty of time.
>
>
> Guess they should be excited to see other students from around the
> world using Blender to create animation ... am thinking of such
> workshop in next move
>
>
> Wish you all Happy New Year!
>
> 😊nn
>
>
>
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> *From:* bf-education-bounces at blender.org
> <bf-education-bounces at blender.org> on behalf of Knapp
> <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 30 December 2015 17:29
> *To:* Blender Educators and Trainers
> *Subject:* Re: [Bf-education] short intro to blender
> 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 <mailto: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>
>
> I MAKE 03 Workshop <http://osmmhk.weebly.com/i-make-03-workshop.html>
> osmmhk.weebly.com <http://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
>
>
>
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> *From:* bf-education-bounces at blender.org
> <mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org>
> <bf-education-bounces at blender.org
> <mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org>> on behalf of Peter Kemp
> <peterejkemp at gmail.com <mailto:peterejkemp at gmail.com>>
> *Sent:* 30 December 2015 01:31
> *To:* bf-education at blender.org <mailto: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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> 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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> > "Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our
> works of art that we reveal ourselves and to others the inner
> vision which guides us as a nation." -Lyndon B. Johnson
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> <mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org>] On Behalf Of Lee Butler
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> > 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.
> >
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