Scratch Design Interface from wikicommons |
Chances are you have heard of Scratch. If you haven't, it is a program that allows users to create animations using visual or object driven programming. Here is an example of a scratch animation to the song "Radioactive," lots of minecraft references here.
I know I want to use this platform with my students and I know that many of the teachers I follow on twitter have used it, but that is the extent of my knowledge. So now I need to find resources for learning and supporting my students in learning Scratch. I asked my twitter PLN. Within 12 minutes I had an awesome collection of resources.
Now comes the real work, digging in and playing hard. I will post my progress as I go. Please add your resources in the comments and I will add them to the storify.
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I will tell you that the recently changed the interface (its 2.0 now) and most videos available are for the previous interface. But you get the general idea.