Reflections on Scratch Educator Meetup @ MIT: Saturday, December 7, 2013
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December 10, 2013
Thanks to everyone who attended the final Scratch Educator Meetup of 2013! Here is a review of what happened:
Attendees
Below is a list of people who attended the meetup on Saturday:
- Derek Breen
- Nancy Cooperider
- Janet Dee
- Noel Kuriakos
- Lee Lamson
- Szu-Ming Li
- Colin Meltzer
- Barbara Mikolajczak
- Natalie Paine
- Angela Puccini
- Jen Reis
- Adam Scharfenberger
- Rosemary Slattery
- LeeAnn Wells
- Karen Brennan
- Michelle Chung
- Jeff Hawson
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Recap
- Networking and Introductions - The morning started with casual networking over coffee, juice, and pastries. The facilitators then invited attendees to introduce themselves to one another by sharing their name, association, goals for the meetup, and holiday plans.
- Scheduling and Breakout Sessions - To generate the agenda for the day, participants were asked to write two breakout session ideas on sticky notes, which were then grouped on the wall by similar topic. Three session ideas emerged. First, Karen helped to organize small group discussions for people to share Hour of Code plans. Next, a group of educators gathered to talk about advanced topics with Scratch, while others continued to work on Hour of Code and other activity ideas.
- Announcements - During lunch from Chipotle, Rosemary led a group-share of announcements, upcoming events, and resources.
- Photos - All the photos from the meetup can be viewed on Flickr.
Announcements
- December 2013 Meetup notes captured by LeeAnn - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/24283
- 2014 Scratch Conference: August 6-9, 2014 at MIT - http://scratch.mit.edu/conference
- The App Generation by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis - http://www.amazon.com/The-App-Generation-Navigate-Imagination/dp/0300196210
