After two successful workshops for teachers on 3D modeling with Sketchup and 3D animation ANPRI is organizing an introductory 15 hour credited course on Sketchup. ICT teachers are the target audience, but teachers from other areas, especially arts, are very wellcome. I'll be teaching it, sharing what I've learned as a personal user and also as teacher with my young pupils. Dates fofthcoming, so stay tuned!
That is great Artur,
More teachers into 3D will deliver many more students with 3D skills.
Congrats!
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Thanks! Secondary school teachers are very interested, because it fits very well with the Informatic Applications discipline.
Well done! Great initiative!
Sketchup is a fantastic software to model almost everything... I'm using it since 2008, in a daily basis, mainly as a mechanical project tool and I consider it, undoubtedly, as the best and easier software to start learning 3D modelling.
Wow! awesome modeling skills! I'm more of a self-taught amateur, and this project aims to give elementary and secondary school teachers a basic introduction, so that they can begin to use this tool at a lower educational level than university or technical courses. From my experience, kids love to use this tool. I have to ask this: are you the guy behind the S. Cucufate project?
Hi Artur,
Indeed, I am! São Cucufate is the theme of my master thesis project and it includes, besides the archaeological site promotion through media and social networks, the construction of a virtual world, using Sketchup, Blender and Unity. I'm hoping to get everything working fine, next summer...
Nice work!
Sketchup is a special tool and has contributed heavily to disseminate 3D. It is a shame that google discarded it. But, so far, is evolving well under the new owner.
The free version is handy and exports to collada (.dae) file format. Unity reads it quite well. In this desert scene the gas station and a woman character where imported from sketchup.
Educators can ask for a free pro licence. Students stay with the standard free version (sketchup make).
Sure, the sketchup pro version has enhancements and other export formats (fbx included) but the free version may be quite usefull in education since it exports to collada, a universal format. In this experience collada (.dae) worked as well as fbx,
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