Dear origamists, Is there any ongoing project related to 'teaching origami in a workshop', in terms of recommendations on how to better teach specific folds?
In the last 2+ covid years, most of us have attended several zoom sessions, and especially because of the "remote" character (which does not permit the teacher to see how the participants are doing...), many of us could have experienced troubles in understanding/following explanations. Clear and proper description seemed to me very important, much more that a workshop in person. Therefore, a sort of committee which would draw some guidelines (hints), would be really helpful for teachers, in my opinion. Since I'm quite critical and attentive to the explanation techniques and abilities, I have in my mind some to several observations to share, to help who leads a workshop, to do better. Please let me know if there's already something of this kind, ongoing. One example is the squash fold. I would strongly recommend teachers to always announce they are going to make a squash fold, instead of "blindly" going through the classic pre-crease, which sometimes leads to a not precise squash, at the end. "Expert" folders would have the opportunity to execute the squash fold how they like to do, if they feel more comfortable not doing the pre-crease. What above (squash fold) is not strictly related to the teaching from remote, but it does not really matter: it belongs to the topic of better teaching, in my opinion. If there's no project of this sort, I would like to start one, together with who would collaborate. Something simple (keep it simple), such as a shared document where anyone can list what he feels would be better for teaching specific folds, or anything related to the teaching styles. Please note: I'm not actually strongly interested in didactic and so on, I'm not thinking on how to teach in schools to kids, I'm just (simply) thinking on our several origami conventions and zoom events. Something very practical, something which can be read by anyone who is going to teach something, and would like to improve his/her way of teaching. Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Lucioni Duesseldorf - DE lorenzo.luci...@gmail.com
