Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This sounds like a very cool project, please do keep us posted on it. I'd love to hear more about it. .hc On Jun 15, 2008, at 11:29 PM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote: Thanks so much for your comments everybody! I am still mulling over it, but I like the idea of using something like Squeak as

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-15 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Thanks so much for your comments everybody! I am still mulling over it, but I like the idea of using something like Squeak as well. I remember using a DSP software last year that was very children-oriented, but cannot for the life of me remember the name of the software or where to get it! As for

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-15 Thread mik
Kyle Klipowicz schreef: I remember using a DSP software last year that was very children-oriented, but cannot for the life of me remember the name of the software or where to get it! dsp? http://www.notam02.no/DSP02/en/ m -- http://www.mprims.net

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-15 Thread Andy Farnell
Was it NOTAM? http://www.notam02.no/ On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:43:53 +0200 mik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Klipowicz schreef: I remember using a DSP software last year that was very children-oriented, but cannot for the life of me remember the name of the software or where to get

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-15 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
YES!!! This was it! Thanks a ton. I think that this software might be a good fit. ~Kyle On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it NOTAM? http://www.notam02.no/ On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:43:53 +0200 mik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Klipowicz schreef:

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-14 Thread bigswift
why don't you take a look at Squeak? ypatios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, as kids often hate Summer school and I want to make this a fun activity for them. Make sure you use coloured GUIs! :-) -- ypatios -- Patrick Pagano Sound and

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Plessas
Kyle Klipowicz wrote: Hello Listers~ I'm teaching a 1 month Summer school session for K-8 grade students and would like to include Pd for a mathematics learning tool. I am wondering if anyone else has done something similar, or has any links to DSP/math related materials that would be

[PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Hello Listers~ I'm teaching a 1 month Summer school session for K-8 grade students and would like to include Pd for a mathematics learning tool. I am wondering if anyone else has done something similar, or has any links to DSP/math related materials that would be suitable for this age group.

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread ypatios
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, as kids often hate Summer school and I want to make this a fun activity for them. Make sure you use coloured GUIs! :-) -- ypatios ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Farnell
Seems like a great opportunity for lots of fun Kyle. I suppose you might start with simple linear data flows in the message domain. Examples like Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius Convert Dollars to Euros Then plot them into graphs Up to then you can avoid triggers/ eval orders - once you have

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread mark edward grimm
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children To: PDlist pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 2:30 PM Hello Listers~ I'm teaching a 1 month Summer school session for K-8 grade students

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Farnell
Lau I think ( I do hope I'm right) you may have meant to reply list, so returning + list. On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:11:44 +0200 Lau Llobet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would take advantage of the easy interface with midi and audio. I would start with adc and dac and let them play with the

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children

2008-06-13 Thread marius schebella
if you want to use pd, then why not teach sound and video? I think you can keep kids busy just by very simple soundin/out patches with adjustable parameters. kids love to play with their voice and some cheap fx (reverb...) although they are always shy in the beginning, esp. girls. record and

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd - student's log their research

2007-09-20 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks for postng these, they are very interesting to anyone doing Pd teaching. On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:50:40 -0500 Greg Pond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed, Thanks for directing me to the site for your course. I have been working to develop an integrated program involving the departments

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd - student's log their research

2007-09-16 Thread Ed Kelly
Hi Greg, That's really interesting. I think from a teaching point of view the whole reflective journal approach is a good idea, and a web/wiki approach seems to be the most logical way to do this with a technology-related course. Best, Ed PS you can have a look at the short synthesis course I

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd - student's log their research

2007-09-16 Thread Greg Pond
Ed, Thanks for directing me to the site for your course. I have been working to develop an integrated program involving the departments of art, music, computer science and physics at the small college where I work. Pd is a core component of this collaboration. It is really helpful to see how you

[PD] Teaching Pd - student's log their research

2007-09-15 Thread Greg Pond
A colleague just sent me this from the Smith College CS department site: http://cs.smith.edu/student_research.php there are a couple of undergraduate student's Pd research projects described there in a week by week diary format. It may be useful to some of you teaching in similar environments.

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd

2007-06-24 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Thanks guys for your feedback! I'm trying to explore what my best usages of Pd have been, and what I might have to offer to people starting out. Your tips will go a long way! ~Kyle On 6/24/07, Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:18:23 -0500 Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd

2007-06-23 Thread Andy Farnell
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:18:23 -0500 Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List~ I'm curious about teaching Pd to interested people, and know that a number of you have given workshops on the subject. I could really use some collective wisdom on this. Teaching Pd is something I really

Re: [PD] Teaching Pd

2007-06-21 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Hi Kyle and the list, 2007/6/20, Kyle Klipowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi List~ I'm curious about teaching Pd to interested people, and know that a number of you have given workshops on the subject. I could really use some collective wisdom on this. What methods do you use to structure and

[PD] Teaching Pd

2007-06-19 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
Hi List~ I'm curious about teaching Pd to interested people, and know that a number of you have given workshops on the subject. I could really use some collective wisdom on this. What methods do you use to structure and communicate your course material? How do you market it within the city that

[PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread darsha hewitt
Hi guys, Anyone here ever teach pd or other FOSS programmes remotely? Aalex and I are working on a pilot project with two artist-run centres in Canada to see what works best for teaching pd at a distance. We have had one in person session with the students (who are mainly visual artists) and we

Re: [PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi Darsha, i once remember seeing a virtual talk of i think Ben Bogart, who had his desktop relayed via VNC, streamed his voice and the output of his patch via an audio stream and was receiving questions and responses via an irc channel. This worked out quite good. If you want to give it a

Re: [PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread Roman Haefeli
hello On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:04 -0400, darsha hewitt wrote: Hi guys, Anyone here ever teach pd or other FOSS programmes remotely? i know a teacher from the 'royal welsh college of music and drama' [1], who is sometimes using netpd in order to have lessons with his students remotely (some

Re: [PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
My bro and I wrote serendiPd a few years ago with the idea of working on the same patch together at the same time. It works as a proof-of- concept, and with some more work, it might be a usable tool: http://at.or.at/serendipd/ The tricky part that needs to be worked out is controlled who

Re: [PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread marius schebella
Hi, I have some expierience now with video conferencing for classes, with both teachers and students online. I would like to share my experiences, but sinsce we were using mac's ichat and did not vnc a screencapture I am not sure if that is of interest for you. we never had more that 4 parties

Re: [PD] teaching PD at a distance

2007-05-14 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Hi, I have thought about using recordmydesktop to create little screencasts, but they would still need to be converted or edited a minimum. That is not live. VNC could work, but this is a bit Windows-ish, no? Screenshots are ok, but we would be better off making them in advance, if we want to be