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Tessellation Video review

From: Sharon Heneborn (heneborn)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 15:41:32 PST

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    I strongly agree with Pam and Nancy.

    I have used the video & attended one of Jim's workshops in NAEA/DC.

    I have been teaching a tessellation workshop for many years and it is
    always filled to capacity. I briefly touch on the history etc. but I
    advertise my workshop as a DBAE workshop. There many excellent web
    sites and books to teach tessellation but I think Jim's video is one
    of the clearest I have seen or used. He understands the concept and
    explains in lay terms and he has simplified the production so that it
    is on an entry level. Simplifying is the difficulty of teaching
    tessellation. If you can make the lesson so simple and clear that the
    entry level students/teachers can understand it the advanced students
    will jump from there and understand the complicated problems. I never
    share my lesson plan because I can't explain it with out showing it.

     Usually a teacher who wants to learn about the tessellation wants to
    focus on the concepts and needs only a suggestion of other material to
    enrich the lesson. Over the years I have refined my workshop to
    include line of symmetry and tessellation production and hand out a
    packet to include all the rest like Tessellation pattern occurring in
    nature, a variety of cultures, and a number of artists including Jim's
    work.

    I was working on a video production of my workshop and when I saw
    Jim's I decided I could use his instead.

    I also recommend Tessellmania Cd-ROM. It is very user friendly.

    Sharon from NJ
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    >From: PGStephens
    >Subject: Video review
    >Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2000, 10:34 AM

    > Sorry, Bunki, we go to loggerheads on this one. I give the video a thumbs
    > up, A+ simply because it does exactly what it aims to do. The video shows
    > how to make tessellations, nothing more, nothing less. And it does this
    well. 

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