Reflections on Scratch Educator Meetup @ MIT: Saturday, November 2, 2013

Thanks to everyone who attended the November 2013 Scratch Educator Meetup! Below are a recap and resources from the event:

Attendees
Below is a list of people who attended the meetup on Saturday:

• Deborah Boatwright
• Derek Breen
• Chris Connors
• Steve Gordon
• Ingrid Gustafson
• Natalie Paine
• Matthew Puma
• Adam Scharfenberger
• Dan Watt
• LeeAnn Wells
• Karen Brennan
• Michelle Chung
• Jeff Hawson
• Helen Poldsam
• Josh Tappan

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Recap

• Introductions and Goals - After morning networking over coffee and donuts, participants sat in a circle and introduced themselves and their goals for attending the meetup.
• Breakout Sessions - Karen facilitated an activity to help the group form the agenda for the day. Each person wrote four breakout session ideas on sticky notes and then arranged them on the wall with similar ideas. Four, 40-minute sessions got the highest vote. Ingrid led a session to come up with introductory Scratch project ideas, Helen and Josh asked for feedback on the Scratch Hour of Code prototype activity, Derek and others talked about next steps for students in a breakout session titled, "Life After Scratch", and Karen led a discussion of Scratch assessment strategies. 
• Announcements - Lunch from Chipotle followed with a group brainstorm of announcements, ideas, and resources.
• Photos - Check out photos from the meetup on Flickr and Ingrid's beautiful pictures capturing the Red Sox parade as it passed MIT.

Announcements, Ideas, Resources

• Breakout Session Notes “Project Ideas” - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/23939
• Breakout Session Notes "Life After Scratch" - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/23940
• Breakout Session Notes "Scratch Assessment Strategies" - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/23958
• Scratch Hour of Code activity for CSEdWeek (December 9-15) - https://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/hoc
• December 14:  StarLogo TNG Meetup @MIT (contact Derek if you are interested in attending) - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/user/13861
• Emergence book by Steven Johnson - www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Software/dp/0684868768
• Scratch and  Universal Design for Learning - http://www.cast.org/udl
• Scratch and Music workshop: January 2014 @ UMASS Lowell - https://teaching.cs.uml.edu/~heines/TUES/ProjectHome.jsp
• “Scratch Across the Curriculum” story series - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/content/1681
• Scratch 2.0 downloadable version (beta) - http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download
• Suggestion from Derek: students can easily create websites to showcase their projects by embedding Scratch projects in Google Sites
• Polystar Scratch by Dan Watt  - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/polystar