[ANSTHRLD] Advice on teaching a class

[Ron]

Based on that, I would do a simple overview of what heraldry is in the SCA.
I'd include a brief overview of court and field heraldry and a very basic
intro to armory and names. More along what they are and why do we need them
kind of stuff. Leave the more advanced stuff for another class.

Eirik Halfdanarson

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I can only speak from my experience, but the fighters who've come to me for
heraldic "support" don't care about the definitions of terms.  In they're
words "That's what heralds are for".  They only want to know how to get
started.  Where to get ideas.  Is there anything that simply will NOT pass.
 They need a "jumping off point" and directions to "good" heraldry....OH,
and they want to know how long the process will take and the steps to that.
 Of course, they only want an overview.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Randy Shipp <randyshipp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings from the Barony of the Steppes,
>
> I have been asked to teach a basic heraldry class at the Glaslyn
> Artisan of the Flame event and I could use some advice on how to
> structure it.  I've been told I have a 45-60 minute slot to fill and
> that this is to be "a heraldry class...one for fighters and one for
> youth."  That's about the extent of the detail I've been given.  With
> such vague specifications as to what they hope people will learn and,
> indeed, who the audience is and how much knowledge they'll come with,
> I'm having a hard time figuring out if this should be "Armory 101,"
> with definitions of terms like device, charge, ordinary, tincture,
> color/metal, etc. or something different.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Yours,
>
> --Antoine
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