ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 06/23/12 - 06/29/12

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
06/23/12 - 06/29/12

• Thanks to everyone who joined Wednesday's ScratchEd webinar with Janet Dee, Ingrid Gustafson, and Lorraine Leo who presented what's been awesome (and challenging) about using Scratch in the classroom. The webinar recording and presentation slides are now a resource on ScratchEd. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-educator-show-tell-june-2012-scratched-webinar

• Registration for the Scratch@MIT Conference ends July 1. Spots are filling up so get your tickets now! - http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/registration.html

• In this new Pilot Perspectives ScratchEd Story, middle school educator, Russ Clough, shares feedback about the Scratch Curriculum Guide draft, which he piloted in his classroom this year. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/pilot-perspectives-reflections-scratch-curriculum-guide-russell-clough-o’donnell-middle-scho

• This week in Morrisville, North Carolina, the Code Edge staff had a great time introducing 50 students to Scratch programming at summer camp. - http://www.codeedge.org

• Feeling the summer heat? Kazuhiro Abe shows us one way to automate controlling your fan using LEGO blocks, an Arduino, and Scratch. - http://twitter.com/abee2/status/217922575441997824/photo/1

• Udigital at the University of Girona recently introduced Scratch to students at a local Veïnat school in Salt. - http://udigital.udg.edu

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.