Teaching ZIM

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This is a post where we can list and discuss teaching ZIM. The two main teaching resources are:

ZIM Kids - Coding Workshop, Tutorial, Camp, School. Free JavaScript lessons...

ZIM Skool - JavaScript Lessons for School Curriculum

See the TEACH / TEACHER buttons on the sites.

There is also the ZIM Learn section for general resources. Many of these will support you as a teacher and act as references for the students.

Dr Abstract (me) teaches at Sheridan College in Interactive Media. We have two 6 unit courses (6 hours a week for 14 weeks x 2) with lessons as well, so ZIM can certainly be taught in College and University as well.

We would be happy to support you in any way that you would like to teach ZIM - tutorials, workshops, camps, grade school, high school, college, university. Let us know below or give us a direct message (DM).

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There is also a post on Using the ZIM Editor which has a section on using Lists for education - sharing resources with students.

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Here is a post about using Sprites in ZIM. This will be helpful for anyone coming from Scratch where all the pictures are called sprites.

Using Sprites - from a Kids View

Here is a video of how kids can use sprites. Kids often come from Scratch where all the pictures are sprites. In ZIM we usually use Sprite to mean animated pictures... although there is the concept of a TextureMap where sprites can show a bunch of pictures. And... loading pictures from a Sprite for an Emitter can be more efficient due to a single read to the GPU. [ZIM Explore! 87. Sprites for Kids - without Scratch! #JavaScript #Canvas with ZIM #ZIMjs] Thanks @karelrosseel82 fo…

[karelrosseel82]

added comments to these 2 cool videos

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Posted a Build Test that we had in our Interactive Coding course:

Would you like to do an Exam?

Here is the Build Test that we gave our Interactive Media students this year. [Interactive Coding Exam - try it!] You can try the test in two ways. only watching the video see the steps / questions Here is a ZIP file with the steps for the test and the image for the Sprite. https://zimjs.com/exam.zip Let us know how it goes!

[karelrosseel82]

Promo to teach ZIM 10 years and kids slate with myself haha and new video in Dutch of 1 hour about ZIM site and SLATE

[karelrosseel82]

may a teacher walk around in VR possible ?
as this video

- YouTube

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Good times... we were working to see if we can get ZIM in Banter - it looked promising as they apparently used three.js - so that was going to be part of a Sabbatical project. But then I did not get the Sabbatical - too many people applying and it was based somewhat on reverse seniority, which is fine. There may still be a time in the future.

There were and probably are lots of educators in VR. We were in Altspace but it was sunset by Microsoft so they could do a deal with Meta. Sad for many of us, as you can see, it was quite a community.

But that splintered into others - VRChat is the biggest, Banter, Resonite, etc.

[karelrosseel82]

ok.. do you do still parties?
had a talk about VR to highschool teacher today

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I keep in touch with some people. But have not done parties. Altspace was great because I got to build in world - often people would come around and hang out. VRChat is all in Unity - and I don't really want to make worlds in Blender and Unity. So I dropped out for now - it has been 3 years or so...