ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 01/07/12 - 01/13/12

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
01/07/12 - 01/13/12

• We had a great time meeting up with other local educators at the first Scratch Educator Meetup of 2012, held last Saturday at MIT. Thanks to all who came out! - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/11484

• Have you updated your profile recently? There's a new feature that will allow you to connect with other members based on your interests. Go to My Profile -> Edit -> Member -> Vocabularies. Don't forget to hold down the control or command button to select multiple items. 

• The The Register and The Independent newspapers from the UK posted articles in which Education Secretary, Michael Gove, recommends Scratch in a proposal to overhaul the current ICT curriculum. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/11/gove_ict_curriculum/

• This weekend, IBM Ireland hosted a booth to introduce Scratch at the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition in Dublin. - http://ibm4btyse.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/video-tour-of-the-ibm-stand-at-the-btyse-2012-come-join-us-live-on-saturday/

• Ingrid Gustafson, a Scratch educator in Cambridge, MA is using Scratch to create Artists Toolkits. - http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/explore.cfm

• Joakim Karlsson from Sweden has been pair programming with his daughter in Scratch. Check out the first project they created together. - http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/bettan/2255364

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.