[ANSTHRLD] Changes to Heraldic Education??

[Druinne de Salesberie]

Hey there,

When I was Star, I attempted to create the Book of the Herald in
online form. I had the files in my hot little hands and discovered
that while much of the information was great, some of it was going to
be a royal pain to get permission to publish from people who have more
or less dissappeared (any of this ringing familiar from a recent
thread?).  The articles were great, but there was no sense of this
collection being anything near to a reference manual where a new
herald could go to get some quick info on a question and directions on
how to get more detailed instruction or references.

I put together a draft outline as a start, hoping that I might get
some takers to fill in the sections in some sort of consistent format.
The plan was that the outline would eventually morph into a Table of
Contents.  Oh well.

There was not an overwhelming rush of folks just fighting with each
other on who wanted to and who would fill in the sections of the
outline.  I made a crucial mistake.  I sort of thought that they could
push egos aside and just donate their knowledge, and for those who
only pulled out the alphabet soup behind their names for specific
reasons (and there are times when it is oh so needed) I thought that
they had time.  Yeah, I was young and stupid.

After having had some two plus years to ponder this failure, I have
come to the conclusion that two or three people could work on
something that would be really useful, while a wiki could be something
that the book referred to, where the details and meat of the matter
could reside.

Just a thought.

As far as new stuff on education...well, we need more pictures and
references to period armory.  I am firmly convinced that looking at
the stuff over and over trains the eye.  We need to train alot of
eyes.

Druinne,
...wait, I don't have any heraldic alphabet soup
anymore....muwhahahaha.....now the fun really begins.....

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Robert Fitzmorgan<fitzmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>   There has been discussion for years of updating The Book Of The Herald
> and perhaps making it available online.  I'm not sure what the status is on
> that.  I feel that if we want this to be an online resource that
> a Heraldic wiki might be a useful education tool.  I say 'might' because it
> will depend on whether or not you can get people to use it and create
> content for it.    This would allow for anyone who wants to be involved to
> write articles on their areas of expertise and make any additions or
> corrections they think are appropriate to what others have contributed.  I
> think it would a very good way to create the Book of the Herald IF people
> will participate.
> Robert Fitzmorgan
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Tressure Herald <
> tressure at herald.ansteorra.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I would like to take this opportunity to solicit the College on
>> changes you would like to see from the Education branch, i.e.,
>> Tressure.
>>
>> Webpage mods? Warranting package format? Let me know what you think.
>>
>> I'll be looking over some of these areas and want some feedback...and
>> look forward to seeing everyone at Round Table if not somewhere along
>> the way.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tadhg, Tressure
>> ...brick by brick
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