1. Introduction to Scratch! Michelle Venable-Foster Barb Ericson August 2014

2. Adventures in Animation What is Scratch? Scratch is a free programmable toolkit that enables kids to create their own games, animated stories, and interactive art and share their creations with one another over the Internet.

3. Adventures in Animation What is Scratch? Scratch builds on the long tradition of Logo and LEGO/Logo, but takes advantage of new computational ideas and capabilities to make it easier for kids to get started with programming (lowering the floor) and to extend the range of what kids can create and learn (raising the ceiling).

4. Adventures in Animation What is Scratch? The ultimate goal is to help kids become fluent with digital media, empowering them to express themselves creatively and make connections to powerful ideas.

5. Adventures in Animation What is Scratch? Scratch 2.0 is built on top of Flash –It won’t run on apple devices –But ScratchJr will

6. Scratch 2.0 Features See http://scratch.mit.edu/overview/http://scratch.mit.edu/overview/ Cloud-based –With a version you can install on a computer Create your own blocks Cloning Use of the camera Backpack Adventures in Animation

7. What is Scratch? Scratch is being developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with KIDS research group at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Lifelong KindergartenMIT Media LabKIDS research group

8. Adventures in Animation Let ’ s Get Started! To Open Scratch go to http://scratch.mit.edu http://scratch.mit.edu Create an account or pre-create accounts for a workshop

9. Tips for Workshops Start with existing projects and have students add features –Score to the pong game Do different types of projects –Art, games, animations, music Encourage students to be creative –And to show off what they have created Adventures in Animation

10. How to evaluate Pre and post attitude surveys –Measure confidence, enjoyment, interest, intent to persist, gender stereotypes –5 point Likert scale questions –Open-ended questions: best, thing to change? –http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/310http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/310 Pre and post content knowledge assessments –Multiple choice questions –http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/311http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/311