ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 05/11/13 - 05/17/13

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
05/11/13 - 05/17/13

• Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday at the final Scratch educator meetup of the school year. Find out what happened through these reflections and pictures from the event. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/scratch-educator-meetups/reflections-scratch-educator-meetup-mit-saturday-may-11-2013

• Interested in learning more about Scratch this summer? We are launching a free online Scratch PD course for educators starting June 3. For more information, sign up for the online course mailing list. - bit.ly/ScratchEdOnlineCourse

• This Tuesday, MIT News featured an article, "Kids coding in the cloud" about the recent release of Scratch 2.0. - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/scratch-two-released-0514.html

• This Forbes article lists Scratch as one free strategy for "How to Get Kids Interested in Technology". - http://www.forbes.com/sites/women2/2013/04/03/how-to-get-kids-interested-in-tech-learn-to-code

• Kazuhiro Abe shared this picture from his first Scratch 2.0 workshop in Mitaka, Tokyo, where children designed their own paint editor. - https://twitter.com/abee2/status/333194057004244992/photo/1

• See what can be created using Scratch, MaKey MaKey, graphite, and paper. Check out this beautiful digitally interfaced book shared on the National Writing Project Digital Is website. - http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/4885

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.