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Kisha Delain
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January 20, 2010
I'm working on developing a Scratch class for the local community education center. I've been thinking it would be good to do maybe a couple of hours for two consecutive weeks. Does anyone have experience teaching kids with a format like this? I see a lot of lesson plans that are around 8 or so lesson plans.
Any thoughts?
Hi Karen,
I used your Scratch Workshop Design Guide to help me design a workshop for girl scouts in my community. I found it very useful. Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback -- I'm glad that you found it useful. I'd love to hear about the workshop you designed and how it went!
I was trying to put together a similar class at a local library a couple of years ago and ran across the problem that software couldn't be added to the computers. If you run across a similar issue, it's good to know that you can run Scratch off of USB flash drives.
Thanks, Kent, I will remember that! I hope it won't be an issue but you never know! :)
(what a strange comment system that adding a new one goes in opposite order.)
It makes it faster to see the most recent comments. :)
Hi Kisha,
To clarify, you're looking to organize two 2-hour workshops, where there's a week between the two sessions?
Thanks!
K
Approximately, yes. I do have some flexibility in both length of workshop and number of times it meets if that's not really feasible.
It's totally feasible. Have you seen the Scratch Workshop Design Guide? In particular, there are a couple of sample agendas (page 12 and page 13) that might be useful.
Let me know what you think -- if that doesn't fit with what you're hoping to achieve, I'm happy to brainstorm!