[Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 156, Issue 1

[Rushan Ziatdinov]

Greetings!

Are here any Blender users from South Korea?

*Can you please recommend me any books (or free online recourses) in Korean
language?*

Thanks in advance.

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Sincerely,
Rushan ZIATDINOV, PhD (조교수 루샨 지아디노프)
Department of Industrial and Management Engineering
<http://newcms.kmu.ac.kr/ims/index.do>
Keimyung University <http://www.kmu.ac.kr/english/> (계명대학교), Daegu, South
Korea
Personal website: www.ziatdinov-lab.com
Local Phone: 5286
E-mail: ziatdinov.rushan at gmail.com
            ziatdinov at kmu.ac.kr
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On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:47 PM Peter Kemp <peterejkemp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rik,
>
> I think a 'reset/panic/home' button would be great.
>
> This is my attempt to collect common problems seen amongst beginners using
> Blender:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ywBjURBWrNjWkA1tI-cn2Vf4bjkSUG5FOU9-F6NNJTc/edit?usp=sharing
> I use this with my trainee teachers and college students to help them fix
> common problems that students have. Any more that we could add would be
> great. I wonder if the Blender team might be interested in the common
> problems/misconceptions? This is surely what a 101 model should be
> attempting to deal with.
>
> All the best
> Pete
>
> Dear Pete,
>>
>> I would agree with you on the proposal of beginners can use blender it
>> taught in the right way ( considering the group is not too big)
>> However there are a few common problems in education that I have noticed
>> it might be good to collect common problems as been noticed by other
>> educators
>>
>> please note that there is a big difference between kids before they have
>> their own phone and those who are exposed to e.g ipads for education
>>
>> my biggest problem for beginners is that they get lost and don?t know how
>> to get back in viewpoint, interface or screen layout, these are not
>> effected by Ctr-z so they can not undo them
>>
>> if there would be a ?home ? button as there is for the viewpoint to bring
>> them to default layout and some kind of default zoom level, pivot point,
>> snap setting, viewpoint shading, layer visibility, tool pallet
>>
>> so more or less like clicking on the application template default but
>> without changing the model thus far constructed  would be great help
>>
>> other common problem is loosing objects in space by moving them too far
>> this happens often when using the numeric pad and scale or grab
>> once they click the home button they are left with a seemingly empty
>> screen
>>
>> I set the number of undo to 500 this depends on the response time of the
>> teacher : about 5 minutes of being lost is more than 200 attempt of kids to
>> try to solve
>>
>> it would be nice if the history pallet stay visible and have short cut
>> letters added to the action so they could see what happens at all times
>>
>> A simplified version does not apply for primary kids: they do not compare
>> this to something they know or have worked with.
>> however kids with and ipad history are already spoiled and much more
>> difficult to train in blender
>>
>> hope this helps
>>
>> Rik
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 02 Nov 2018, at 09:31, Peter Kemp <peterejkemp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi  All, I think that there are two positions here:
>> >
>> > 1. we need a version of blender for the beginner that hides
>> functionality
>> > 2. beginners can use blender if taught in the right way.
>> >
>> > I'm largely in agreement with number 2 as we have thousands of cases
>> where this has happened with the b3d101.org <http://b3d101.org/>
>> project. But there might be a case for 1 amongst the most occasional users
>> >
>> > If we are hiding functionality, how are children going to easily find
>> it when they aren't being taught by us? If there is an education version of
>> blender, then we need to start by disabling, rather than hiding
>> functionality. Think along the lines of how some strategy computer games
>> work, where there is a greyed out version of a button that you need to
>> level up to use. My fear is a user learning a 101 version of blender will
>> then have to largely relearn the full version. I had a good conversation
>> with Ton about this and there might well be a case for a cut down version
>> of blender, for the very occasional user, think big buttons and very
>> limited sets of tools, but as a learning path towards being a full user,
>> the argument appears to be flawed to me.
>> >
>> > As mentioned previously (
>> https://twitter.com/peterejkemp/status/1050360844343750656 <
>> https://twitter.com/peterejkemp/status/1050360844343750656>) if we get
>> the basics of blender 2.8 right, then it will be far easier to learn than
>> 2.8, and with the right educational approach there is no need for a special
>> 'education' version. I know there are people who would disagree with my
>> suggestions on how to change the interface, but maybe we should look at
>> this another way, the normal blender is the version that's easy to use for
>> the beginner and the 'pro' version has no tool selected, starts in grey
>> viewport mode and doesn't tell you what the tools are.
>> >
>> > Pete
>>
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