Presentation about Scratch given November 6, 2010 at the Fall CUE Conference, Napa Valley, California.

1. Scratch
wow!
Stu Woodward
fallcue2010.wikispaces.com
s2woodward@verizon.net
slideshare.net user:swoodward

2. Today
• About
• Tour
• Examples

3. scratch.mit.edu

4. Why?
• Interest
– Better Learning
• Fun & Easy
• Logic & Programming Concepts
• Community
• Can do at home, etc.
• Free

5. Consumer Producer

6. Community
• Sharing
• The “Remix”
• Support

7. Community

8. Forums - Educators

9. Web 2.0 Features
• Tags
• Comments
• Embed
• Favorites
• Remix Tree

10. Caveats
• Addicting!
• Goes deep

11. Tour

12. Samples
• With program
• Online

13. Easy Lesson
• Use existing project
– Students replace content (Remix)

14. Easy Lesson
• Students put in pictures and record
sound
– Welcome to Mount Olympus

15. Easy Lesson
• Animate your learning – include
– Theme
– Plot
– Character development
– Cay Reflection

16. Sequence
• Moving sprite
• Animation
• Interaction
• Variables

17. Tips
• Starting positions
– Places
– Costumes
– Backgrounds
– Hide/show

18. Tips
• XY position
– Automatically in block

19. Tips
• R-click, show
– To find “lost” sprite

20. Tips
• Drag blocks to new sprite to copy

21. Evaluations

22. Scratch
wow!
Stu Woodward
fallcue2010.wikispaces.com
s2woodward@verizon.net
slideshare.net user:swoodward