ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 08/23/14 - 08/29/14

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
08/23/14 - 08/29/14

• The MIT Scratch Team shared a few new updates this week, including the newest Scratch Team member and an option for deleting parent comments. - http://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/50423

• This IEEE article by Chris Gresse von Wangenheim describes an initiative that hosts Scratch workshops for families in Brazil. - http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/stories/teaching-game-programming-scratch-through-family-workshops

• Code for Kids in Waterloo, Canada is hosting a Scratch game workshop on September 27. - http://codeforkids.ca/products/making-a-game-with-scratch-1

• This week, Dylan Ryder published a new Edutopia blog post on creating advanced fractal projects in Scratch. - http://www.edutopia.org/blog/scratch-programming-advanced-fractal-fun-dylan-ryder?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-scratch-fun-with-fractals

• One Laptop per Child in Rwanda cohosted a Rwanda-Japan exchange using Scratch. Check out the students sharing their projects with one another. - https://twitter.com/onelaptoprwanda/status/504612058298847232/photo/1

Do you have other news from the week that you'd like to share? Please post it as a comment below.