[Bf-education] Minutes from education meeting at #bcon16

Lee Butler iraytrace at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 18:40:13 CET 2016


I applaud the efforts on B3d101.org.  It is nice to see some of these 
resources in one place.

When teaching children 10-18 years old, I would suggest that the initial 
introduction to animation needs to be more simple than some of what I 
see on b3d101.org.  Content needs to be provided in chucks of 10 minutes 
or less, and it needs to produce something that provides a sense of 
accomplishment.  I have had good success with kids and the following: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czEwoBQWYs 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMoRvWkkwo.

When I look at https://cgcookie.com/flow/introduction-to-blender/ I get 
a set of categories, but it gives me the impression of needing to put in 
40 minutes or more to learn anything at all.  I have found I can get 
people hooked if I can get them to spend 5 minutes on a tutorial that 
shows them how they can create something of their own.  I tend to slide 
in the "here's the user interface" with the "let's make something fun" 
part rather than the other way around.

I'd love to contribute the materials I have created and have someone 
else use or refine them.

Lee

On 10/30/2016 12:32 PM, Prince Kart wrote:
>
> Good
>
> With regards
> Karthik
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2016 8:43 PM, "Peter Kemp" <peterejkemp at gmail.com 
> <mailto:peterejkemp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     Minutes from today's meeting
>     <https://twitter.com/TomSFHaines/status/792006425279139841> at the
>     blender conference. 16 attendees, focus on pre-uni education. Any
>     interested translators/educators out there, please get in touch.
>     We need you!
>
>     What can be done?
>
>      *
>
>         get interested people to the mailing list and use it more
>
>      *
>
>         get a slack together for Blender Education - to share work in
>         progress
>
>
>
>      *
>
>         We need translations of current material on http://b3d101.org
>         - ITALIAN / FRENCH / SPANISH / PORTUGUESE / POLISH / ETC
>
>      *
>
>         Create and share content including video tutorials (suitable
>         for kids -use advice document
>         <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OeU4tkigTo3oDWVZK86tMTUCH7QJSKtzmT_thOSVMXQ/edit#slide=id.g17cc27908c_2_11>)
>
>      *
>
>         Share funding/research opportunities. Potential joint EU bids
>
>      *
>
>         Matrix of tutorials for students looking to follow career X.
>         E.g. tutorials for architects / animation. Kid friendly
>         beginner videos.
>
>      *
>
>         Mozilla badges to accredit learner outcomes. E.g. badge for
>         modelling basics. Do the scouts have these?
>
>      *
>
>         How do we contact other people who can change things - make
>         people aware of discussions around b3d101 - use slack and
>         mailing list.
>
>      *
>
>         B3d101 discussion, do we make a simple version of blender, OR
>         grey out buttons OR hide buttons?
>
>      *
>
>         Marketing material for schools - 3Dami to share
>
>      *
>
>         Provide teacher training resources for non-blender educators -
>         how do we train teachers and facilitate teachers. Resources on
>         misconceptions and common mistakes made by beginners - 3Dami
>         to produce.
>
>      *
>
>         How to solve problems with lack of equipment - for example
>         guides for remote desktop set-up. What about installing on
>         Windows network using .msi. How to build ubuntu USB.
>
>      *
>
>         Blog posts on best practice and events.
>
>      *
>
>         Links to good general reference materials - non blender
>         material such as animators toolkit / Krita / inkscape
>
>      *
>
>         Downloadable simple assets for students to use.
>
>      *
>
>         Share work and outcome from students - blog posts, but also
>         .blend files / videos.
>
>      *
>
>         How can students work together online? Possibility of cross
>         national students dev teams.
>
>
>
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