ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 08/27/11 - 09/02/11

The weekly roundup is where the ScratchEd Team shares some of the major -- as well as some of the overlooked -- news, stories, and events related to Scratch that took place throughout the week.

ScratchEd Weekly Roundup
08/27/11 - 09/02/11

• There are now 2 million projects for you to explore on the Scratch website! Congratulations to the Scratch Team and to everyone who contributed to this exciting event! - http://scratch.mit.edu/

• We hope that everyone made it through Hurricane Irene safely. We apologize for any technical issues that arose over last weekend, although as Dhananjay Ragade discovered, it made for some amusing error messages in Scratch. - http://twitpic.com/6cp9cs 

• Collab Camp on the Scratch website is now over, but you can check out all the project submissions in the Collab Camp gallery. Special thanks to everyone who participated! Look out for featured projects soon. 
- http://info.scratch.mit.edu/collabcamp2011

• Thot Cursus, a French website dedicated to promoting educational technology, released an article about Scratch: "Scratch : programmation objet facile pour tous" - http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/14191/scratch-programmation-objet-facile-pour-tous/

• Fantastic Park, a technology summer camp hosted by Fundación CTIC-SI was mentioned in last week's roundup. This week, the camp was featured in an article from Spanish newspaper, La Nueva España. - http://www.lne.es/gijon/2011/08/28/steve-jobs-cantera-cabuenes/1121579.html

• Esteban Oyarzo shared this picture from a Scratch workshop held at Colegio Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary University) in Andacollo, Chile. - http://yfrog.com/kjt5vrpj

• In the final installment of the summer series from the WELSTech podcast, Sallie Draper discusses  "Scratch-ing the Programming Surface". - http://salliedraper.com/blog/2011/08/29/scratch-ing-the-programming-surface/

These are just a few things that we found. Do you have news from the week that you'd like to share? Please post it as a comment below.

Know about something that could be posted in a future roundup? Email us at scratched@scratch.mit.edu.