ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 08/06/11 - 08/12/11

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
08/06/11 - 08/12/11

• The ScratchEd Team is releasing a Scratch curriculum guide just in time for the new school year. Get a sneak peak at our upcoming ScratchEd Webinar on Monday, August 22 or join a one-day seminar about the guide at MIT on Wednesday, August 24. - http://scratched.eventbrite.com

• The Scratch website is about to celebrate hitting the 2 million projects mark. In preparation for the occasion, Andrés Monroy-Hernández  from the Scratch Team shows us what 44 million Scratch scripts look like - http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2011/08/what-42-million-scratch-scripts-look.html 

• National Public Radio (NPR)'s MindShift released an article entitled "Scratch: Teaching the Difference between Creating and Remixing." - http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/08/scratch-teaching-kids-about-programming-teaching-kids-about-remixing

• TV Tokyo featured a story about a Japanese Scratch workshop on their World Business News (WBS) program - http://scratch-ja.org

• Richard Anderson created a short documentary film about two Scratch workshops he facilitated in Buea, Cameroon this summer with ActivSpaces. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/scratch-cameroon

• The Innovacien organization is working with schools throughout Chile, South America. Most recently, they have been introducing students to Scratch at Escuela Patricio Lynch de Andacollo. - http://www.innovacien.org

• Soohwan Kim posted pictures from this year's Scratch Day event held by I-FIT at the Gyeongin National University of Education in Incheon, South Korea. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/scratch-korea

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.

Know about something that could be posted in a future roundup? Email us at scratched@scratch.mit.edu.