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  3D Education   Calling all Teachers!
2001 08 24 
   
Elisa Karumo 
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Now is your opportunity to meet your peers at the 3D Graphics Teachers' Discussion Forum

Dear Teacher,

Are you on the lookout for great 3D software for your school? Have you considered Blender? Now, you don't have to take our word for it - you can pick the brain of your peers' at our 3D Graphics Teachers' Discussion Forum.

Work by 17 year old Swiss Blender workshop student Peter Gruner.
Work by 17 year old Swiss Blender workshop student Peter Gruner.
You are not alone!

"We have been using Blender in our senior computer classes for two years now. My students are intrigued, amazed, and motivated by Blender! I learn new things from them every day.

There is no other piece of software that has contributed as significantly to the popularity of my classes. Thank you." - Bill Kingsland, Vancouver, Canada

Teachers throughout the world have found Blender and are using the software in their courses in art schools and universities. You now have the opportunity to meet some 20 of them at our 3D Graphics Teachers' Discussion Forum. Find out what your peers with Blender teaching experience think about Blender and let them convince you! To join the Forum, e-mail elisa.karumo@blender.nl.

Once you've started to learn Blender, you'll find that a large, active and helpful user community surrounds you. There have been 2.5 million downloads from which a global user community of more than 250, 000 has developed. These users meet on the company website, www.blender.nl, to share their ideas, their creativity and to help each other in 2,5 million page views per month.

Blender in a nutshell

"Blender is one of the best 3D packages on any platform." - Linux Magazine, Editor's Choice Award 2000, Emperor Class Award

Blender is the only 3D program that incorporates modelling, animation, rendering, video postproduction and game creation -and has an amazingly compact 1.5 MB.file size! Because of its non-existent file size, and open standards platform, Blender is perfectly portable, allowing students to work on the program at school and to continue work at home. The program runs easily on the not-so-state-of-the-art computers, making it also a dream for System Administrators.

Blender is OpenGL compatible which enables a full cross-platform coverage of all PC and workstation OS's. Blender currently operates on Windows, Linux, Irix, BeOS, Sun and FreeBSD, and will be ported to Mac OSX by the end of this year. For the features of the latest release, Blender 2.20, visit this site: http://www.blender.nl/nan/features.php.

Yes, I'm interested in teaching Blender and/or the 3D Graphics Teachers' Discussion Forum. What do I do now?

For teaching Blender:

NaN's educational contact person is Elisa Karumo and you can contact her at elisa.karumo@blender.nl . When you do, please mention the following:

  • Your name and title
  • Name, location and possible url of your educational institute
  • Level of students you are teaching (college, university etc)
  • Your current situation and needs regarding 3D teaching and any other inquiries you may have

    For access to the 3D Graphics Teachers' Discussion Forum:

    Here are 4 simple steps of how to to join:

    1) go to http://www.blender.nl and choose 'Blender' (instead of 'Not a Number')

    2) sign up as a community member (see navbar on the left). If you already are a community member, you don't need to sign up again.

    3) e-mail your nick name to: elisa.karumo@blender.nl. She will add you to the discussion group

    4) Elisa will e-mail you instructions of how to enter and use the discussion forum


    • Feedback
    scottishpig 2001 09 04
    Yay! Lucky 17
    Omen 2001 09 03
    whoa i got 16th post (sarcasticaly!)
    blenderworlderik 2001 08 28
    renderblender@hotmail.com
    blenderworlderik 2001 08 28
    renderblender@blender.nl
    Elisa 2001 08 27
    Hi Dickie,

    We are working on a Blender Educational Program but it hasn't been decided yet what that will look like. I sure hope that Blender Certifications would be a part of that!
    scottishpig 2001 08 26
    A teacher of mine (Mister W. Plantholt to be exact) did download and run blender on a computer at my school-- it crashed :(

    p.s.
    Who gives a <insert your profanity here> what post it is?!?!
    wade_in 2001 08 25
    well elisa your not the olny one down in australia blender is the top rated program.
    Go the blender team
    asdf_46 2001 08 24
    Yahoo 10th post. Just kidding, this business of having the first post is overrated. It's the last one that everyone reads. asdf_46
    Darwin 2001 08 24
    I wish we would have used Blender instead of some old version of AutoCAD in the mechanics courses I had at school. Blender might not be as good when it comes to making blueprints, but it's way more fun. ; ' )
    Angel7 2001 08 24
    Lads it dosn't matter a bit if it makes them happy, it's harmless and easily ignored so who cares :)
    Catlover84 2001 08 24
    I'm with Stephen2002. Who cares? You'r not even posting anything! I didn't know anyone was teaching with Blender! So cool!
    Greg_B 2001 08 24
    lol
    stephen2002 2001 08 24
    You people with your "first post!", get a grip. Nobody cares!

    (at least I don't)
    dickie 2001 08 24
    Will NaN be offering Blender Certifications like Newtek does?
    d_or 2001 08 24
    third
    bil 2001 08 24
    second post
    sourBox 2001 08 24
    First Post!