On 10/29/2009 06:59 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > My Red Hat office, the Boston office, is going to be doing a program > with a local middle school / jr. high (students are 11-14 I think) and > I'm going to be teaching a 9 session (45 minutes a piece) course in > Inkscape to the students. We are trying to introduce the students to the > concept of free software& open content licenses such as Creative > Commons, plus teach them how to use this useful tool that might help > them in their academic career. Super cool! I am jealous... > I'm trying to put together a lesson plan for the course. But I fear that > it moves way too fast, especially for 45-minute sessions. I know many of > you, I am sure, have given Inkscape tutorials to other folks, and I am > wondering if any of you would have time to give me advice or even help > me develop the lesson plan. This sound like fun. Here are a few notes on your initial plan: - Session 1: I think you jump a bit too soon to tracing bitmpas, which is somewhat an advanced function (all the exercises are about tracing). I would start more on basic objects and compositions made with basic objects, for a better understanding on what vector graphics are. More focus on original creations. - Session 2: maybe here is a great time for something based on tatica's awesome tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0pQjfqfGM - Session 8 and 9 are in my opinion a bit too advanced for your target audience (inner working of printing is not for everyone). Maybe instead some graphics for use on web? Also, I would have liked somewhere a bit about free drawing and the calligraphic tool. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
