[Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 150, Issue 1
Peter Kemp
peterejkemp at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 10:11:08 CEST 2018
Does anyone have any thoughts on how suited 2.8 is for new learners?
My thoughts are here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/peterejkemp/status/1050360844343750656
If we got an accessible default setup there would be no need for a 101
version.
Pete
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> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:21:57 -0500
> From: Pierre Schiller <3dcinetv at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] education meeting at bconf
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> Intetesting approach as you mention 2.8 is not stable yet. -Not completed-
> would be a more suitable word at this point. But I find that 2.8 is
> actually predictable in what can or cannot be used when following the
> developer's log.
>
> Just as it is a turn off to teach when something fails and crashes on 2.8,
> it is also exciting to work and teach when a feature is prominent, new and
> stable.
>
> So at the moment I am teaching grease pencil and sculpting on 2.8 with
> enjoyable sucess.
>
> Challenges? The incongruence of the keyboard layout. Legacy keboard layout
> from 2.79 on 2.8 will not solve this as easily as the devs thought because,
> it is a complete new mind set applied to workflow.
>
> Blender 2.8 coming up approximatedly on Feb 2019. So, we are getting
> closer.
>
> Best regards.
>
> David Rivera.
> Blender Foundation Official Trainer
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 04:52 Tiffany, Robert L., Mr., CIV, OSD/DoDEA-Europe
> <
> Robert.Tiffany at eu.dodea.edu> wrote:
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> > Cool - I have been teaching the game engine side of blender for about 10
> > years - just love what it offers the students. I was sorry to see it be
> > removed from the main Blender program but happy that someone picked it up
> > and ran with it (so we don't have to always use older versions).
> >
> > Are these virtual conferences or is this the big Blender conference?? I
> > am good to go virtually, but currently reside in Italy, so travel is
> > minimal here.
> >
> > Thanks again for your continued support of the product - very cool
> software
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Robert Tiffany
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bf-education [mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 11:40 AM
> > To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Bf-education] education meeting at bconf
> >
> > For the past 2 years Peter Kemp and I, Blender teachers, have been
> > organizing education meetings at the Blender Conference. The goal is to
> > discuss Blender education; challenges, concerns, materials, blender101
> > development, education programs or share best practices. It's an open
> > discussion, anyone can join and bring in a subject as long as it is
> related
> > to Blender and education.
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Monique
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:36 AM Tiffany, Robert L., Mr., CIV,
> > OSD/DoDEA-Europe <Robert.Tiffany at eu.dodea.edu <mailto:
> > Robert.Tiffany at eu.dodea.edu> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > What is this?? I teach Blender (game engine) for High School ...
> > curious as to what all of this (below) is??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Robert Tiffany
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bf-education [mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org
> > <mailto:bf-education-bounces at blender.org> ] On Behalf Of Monique
> > Dewanchand
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 10:17 AM
> > To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org
> > <mailto:bf-education at blender.org> >
> > Subject: [Bf-education] education meeting at bconf
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This Thursday is the start of the Blender Conference 2018. I've
> > scheduled an education meeting on Friday to discuss Blender education in
> > universities and pre-universities.
> >
> > With blender 2.8 coming there is lots to discuss. What challenges
> > does blender 2.8 bring when teaching Blender to (young) students?
> >
> > I would like to hear from you. And perhaps we can discuss your
> > concerns or feedback at the education meeting.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique
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> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:45:17 +0200
> From: rik van nielen <rik at oicretail.com>
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> Hi Monique,
>
> I am teaching Blender to primary kids aged 7-8-9 at an international
> school in Geneva
> At that age students have little to no experience with interfaces; all is
> done with keyboard shortcuts.
> though limited in modelling they are picking up very fast with sculpting
> The rationale is that at this age the mind is open to any construction no
> matter how complex
>
> being exposed to modelling/sculpting at a young age helps them to develop
> their mental model and orientation skills
> we hope they will continue this at middle and high school before phone and
> tablet interfaces will spoil them
>
> let me know if there are other teachers out there with experience to
> working with very young kids
>
> we are curious to see if 2.8 will add to sculpting
> some default settings are not set for out of the box working if we could
> change those
> or create a kid default version we would be more than happy
>
> keep us posted
>
> Rik van Nielen
>
>
> > On 22 Oct 2018, at 10:16, Monique Dewanchand <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This Thursday is the start of the Blender Conference 2018. I've
> scheduled an education meeting on Friday to discuss Blender education in
> universities and pre-universities.
> >
> > With blender 2.8 coming there is lots to discuss. What challenges does
> blender 2.8 bring when teaching Blender to (young) students?
> >
> > I would like to hear from you. And perhaps we can discuss your concerns
> or feedback at the education meeting.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique
> > -- At Mind --
> > -- b3d101.org <http://b3d101.org/> --
> > -- crowdsim3d --
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