A new video suitable for teaching as a first Scratch project at a computer club available now at http://scratch.redware.com/video/one-key-logo together with other resources.
Contributed by Dimitris Nikolos, December 15, 2010
Can you make a drawing pair of compasses, a helpscreen in seconds? And how can you hide the correct answer to a quiz when your program is in everybody's screen?
A nation wide program...4000 kids...game developers....with Scratch.
What are the challenges? What are the pedagogical and technical approach to implement it?
A set of activities in which students have all of the "pieces" of the code and they have to figure out how to assemble them to get the program to do the described task.
Contributed by Richard Goyette, September 12, 2010
Do you want to control a robot of your design/choice with Scratch? Don't have the budget for the real thing but could use a simulator? Give Itchbots a try...
Contributed by Christopher Hampson, September 07, 2010
SCRATCH elegantly meets a deep need within many urban schools: a tool that allows students to create with computers. But how do we use it? This resource suggests six strategies for getting started.
This handout was created to accompany our workshop at Scratch@MIT on August 13, 2010. It presents 10 examples of creating music using Scratch that grow in complexity.