Week 18 - Scratch projects

This week we will squeeze in our summative assessment for Typing Club, while we continue to work on our Scratch projects.

Looking to make your project better?

Follow some of the tips from this link and you'll see a difference in your project:

http://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/11969/

This link has sounds, backgrounds, and sprites for you to download. Make sure and credit the creator.  http://resources.scratchr.org/

Week 17 - Scratch projects

I couldn't be more pleased with the overall work that I am witnessing for this project. This is not an easy task with roadblocks as numerous as potholes on the streets of New Orleans (I lived there; love the place, but WOW are the streets bad). The critical thinking component of the task is ever present as students are responsible for creating a concept and then writing the code to make it happen on the computer. At every moment they are needing to predict, analyze, identify issues, seek solutions, and solve problems.

What's been most exciting is hearing the kids come to class and say, "I worked on my project all night!" – and it wasn't because it is due that day.  It's because they're enjoying building and creating. I'm looking forward to sharing their work when the quarter comes to an end in January.

Week 16 - Scratch Projects

This week we are officially starting our Scratch projects. Students are allowed to create any type of project they wish with the following conditions: it must be school appropriate, and the work involved in creating it must be mirror the amount of time we are allocating to the project (5 weeks). Students should challenge themselves to do a project that will require them to search for answers that they do not have. All sources of code must be credited in the projects notes.

Here is a great link to some code tutorials: http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Wiki:Table_of_Contents/Scripting_Tutorials