Hello,
If you have a significant amount of time with the group I might be inclined to:
Determine the disparate levels of skills and knowledge of each person.
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----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.kug.ac.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.kug.ac.at] On Behalf Of Daniel Heckenberg Sent: April 29, 2003 9:15 PM To: PD-list@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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