APLEC 2023 – Online Conference of Folding Didactics
2 December 2023
We are delighted to announce our next online conference dedicated to the didactics of folding. Timings will be announced soon! The classes will be about designs suitable for teaching and so are highly recommended to teachers, therapists and others who use folding within their occupations. We recommend anyone under 16 has an adult with them, to help with the folding and discussion.
All funds will be used to help towards the cost of bringing Ukrainian teachers to our recent physical conference in Badalona. We ask for a donation and suggest £5/$5/€5 as a minimum, but if you need to pay less, that’s OK! After payment, closer to the event, you will be sent an email with login details for the Zoom session. The sessions begin at 10am GMT (11 CET) and continue until 5pm. Each class will be around 45 minutes in length.
Videos of all classes will be made available to those who have registered.
Programme
Workshop conference about the didactic and topographic aspects of the valley fold in the folding classroom with all the difficulties to overcome that every teacher have to know before start to teach.
Envelopes may be part of a system of communication that is in decline, but they are unlikely to disappear completely! As well as being ideal origami models to teach to beginners, they can be used to store things and to give containing gifts. They can also be used to illustrate and explore geometry. In this class, we'll talk about the rhombus and the 1:root3 rectangle.
During the class, you will learn Nick's "Rombus Envelope" and look at how the folding sequence can be adapted depending what students wish to investigate.
The class is suitable for origami beginners as well as those without mathematical skills.
Starting with squares and circles we fold isosceles triangles with different angles for creating tetrahedrons with different shapes. Similarity of triangles can be explained easily by folding.
Wet folding is often seen as an advanced origami technique, but anyone can learn. It allows us to focus on aspects of paper folding art that we don’t teach so often - looking, feeling, using our hands, and being creative and expressive. We will learn how wet folding works, what it is good for, and fold a model, because the only way to learn it is to do it. Suitable for everyone from beginners to experienced folders.
A new, Intermediate-level origami design by Michael LaFosse. We shall dry-fold our papers for this lesson, but this model is ideal for wet-folding too.
Teaching origami tends to be a very mechanical and standard process, the teacher explains each step and the students try to follow, but it doesn't always have to be that way. During the workshop, you'll experience first hand a participative approach to teaching origami and, if time allows it, we'll discuss different tips that can help with the process.
One more thing, we actually won't be making the model in the picture on the right... gotcha! What we will fold is a surprise. Don't miss it.
Workshop conference about the didactic and topographic aspects of the valley fold in the folding classroom with all the difficulties to overcome that every teacher have to know before start to teach.
Envelopes may be part of a system of communication that is in decline, but they are unlikely to disappear completely! As well as being ideal origami models to teach to beginners, they can be used to store things and to give containing gifts. They can also be used to illustrate and explore geometry. In this class, we'll talk about the rhombus and the 1:root3 rectangle.
During the class, you will learn Nick's "Rombus Envelope" and look at how the folding sequence can be adapted depending what students wish to investigate.
The class is suitable for origami beginners as well as those without mathematical skills.
Starting with squares and circles we fold isosceles triangles with different angles for creating tetrahedrons with different shapes. Similarity of triangles can be explained easily by folding.
Wet folding is often seen as an advanced origami technique, but anyone can learn. It allows us to focus on aspects of paper folding art that we don’t teach so often - looking, feeling, using our hands, and being creative and expressive. We will learn how wet folding works, what it is good for, and fold a model, because the only way to learn it is to do it. Suitable for everyone from beginners to experienced folders.
A new, Intermediate-level origami design by Michael LaFosse. We shall dry-fold our papers for this lesson, but this model is ideal for wet-folding too.
Teaching origami tends to be a very mechanical and standard process, the teacher explains each step and the students try to follow, but it doesn't always have to be that way. During the workshop, you'll experience first hand a participative approach to teaching origami and, if time allows it, we'll discuss different tips that can help with the process.
One more thing, we actually won't be making the model in the picture on the right... gotcha! What we will fold is a surprise. Don't miss it.