[Bf-education] education meeting at bconf

[Pierre Schiller]

I just finished watching what the bf-education list interests manifested in
the Blender conference. Such awesome meeting. Such valuable points of views.

I've developed 2 application templates. One for sculpting and another one
to suit repetitive task related modeling things.
But I´m really interested in the same aspect as most of you: To hide the
majority of the panels and buttons that are not going
to be of immediate use to some sitting in front of Blender for the first
time.

I´ve looked at the code; the developers mentioned (months ago) that it will
be possible to hide some things with css, but
in reality I don´t see it possible. As it is not possible to "move" things
around the user interface. Taking in acquaintance that
Blender 2.8 is settling it´s basic interface, I´d say project templates
(completion) are still far ahead.

I´ve reached this:
https://developer.blender.org/source/bf-app-templates/browse/trunk/

But I´ve never seen it work. Or in action.

I guess that it´s a step forward if we could arrange (agree) on the first
basic things the UI needs to have -only- for the first time user.
Or somehow a simplified method (training wheels) of a walk-through
sequential "start in blender" thing. I proposed that to the developers
long ago.

Let me know what you think about these proposals.
Thanks.

Best regards.

David Rivera.
https://www.blendernetwork.org/david-rivera


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 6:22 AM Monique Dewanchand <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>
wrote:

> This was tweeted a while ago by Peter Kemp from 3Dami. Just wanted to
> share...
>
> [image: blender-2.8.jpg]
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:52 PM Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rix, not much has changed about 2.8 sculpt other than where to find the
>> tools and lighting and you can still use the old red material .
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 20:45 rik van nielen <rik at oicretail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
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