[PD] [OT] successful methods for PD seminars

[David Sabine]

Hello,

If you have a significant amount of time with the group I might be inclined
to:

1.  Determine the disparate levels of skills and knowledge of each person.

2.  Then, assuming that you'll likely have some who know very little, and
some who know considerably MORE, I would organize the conference into a
series of workshops.  TOPIC + workshop wherein you can oversee the work of
each group, but each group also has one of the more advanced users.  Have
the group teach the group.

I would think it's more important to NOT leave the inexperienced users in
the dust; rather than try to titillate the more experienced.  If both can be
achieved then great!

Hmmm...
Inexperienced users want to learn a lot.
Experienced users can learn through the process of teaching the
inexperienced.  Every teacher/professor will agree that the best way to
learn something is to explain it to others.

Moving directly from the "patching paradigm" to a jam session is a really
big leap for inexperienced users...although definitely an enjoyable activity
which would prove the software's usability and effectively in live
performance to everybody involved.

Good luck...and if this festival ever comes to Canada, please keep me in
mind!

Regards,
Dave S


-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Daniel Heckenberg
Sent: April 29, 2003 9:15 PM
To: PD-list at iem.kug.ac.at
Subject: [PD] [OT] successful methods for PD seminars


Hi All,

Related to the current thread about PD tutorials - I'm involved in
organising a series of seminars about patching software.  The audience is
likely to be a mixture from non-patchers through to experienced users of PD/
Max / jMax /Reaktor etc.

The conference in question is Electrofringe, a yearly electronic arts
festival in Newcastle, Australia.  www.electrofringe.org

Whilst I think that workshop/ tutorial style approaches definitely work best
for learning PD or patching in general, we don't have the facilities or
sufficient time to offer this.

Instead I'm curious whether people have had interesting and useful seminar
or lecture style sessions with patching software.

If so -  what was the content and approach?

We're hoping to run sessions which offer something to non-users, experienced
users and the presenters... perhaps not at all in a single session
obviously.

So far, and based on previous years' experience, we're looking at doing the
following:
- An intro session to explain the patching paradigm and give a quick tour of
software options
- A laptop gig/jam where patchers can turn up, plug in and produce audio and
video... exchange data, ideas and patches and where others may mingle,
examine running patches, ask questions and so on.
- Various special purpose sessions exploring particular topics - focusing
more on what's possible than on patch implementation
    - surround sound
    - video
    - interconnection (OSC, net streaming etc)

Any ideas, experience greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel


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