ScratchEd Weekly Roundup | 03/03/12 - 03/09/12

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
03/03/12 - 03/09/12

• We're really looking forward to meeting up with local Scratch educators tomorrow at MIT for our monthly Scratch Educator Meetup. Join us next month on Saturday, April 7. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/events

• Ricarose Roque and Michelle Chung from the Scratch Team had a great time creating name acrostics in Scratch with school librarians at the Massachusetts School LIbraries Association (MSLA) Conference this week. - http://maschoolibraries.org/content/view/918/555/

• Are you participating in Collab Camp on the Scratch website? Don't forget that tomorrow is the deadline to submit initial drafts for feedback. Check out all the music mashup projects in the Collab Camp gallery. - http://info.scratch.mit.edu/collabcamp2012

• After a Scratch session with her third graders, Sarah Bloms from Colorodo says: "Never have I had so many requests FOR homework!" -  https://twitter.com/#!/MsBloms/status/178204590049726464/photo/1

• We want to know your thoughts on remixing. What do you think about remixing and Scratch? In particular, what concerns do you have about using remixing as a practice in your classrooms" We want to know. Please share you thoughts here. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/node/12050

• In this blog post, Devin Monnens reflects back on an antiwar Scratch game that he designed as part of his MFA thesis. - http://scratched.media.mit.edu/stories/giant-tank-postmortem

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.