This is a video of John Maloney and Evelyn Eastmond presenting Scratch at the Art && Code Conference at Carnegie-Mellon University this spring (more videos of the other programming languages here.)
Stick around for the whole video, Evelyn and John share some really interesting info about the Scratch community.
A very informal video of Geetha Narayanan Founder and Director of Srishti, School of Art Design and Technology and the Mallya Aditi International School,
explaining her idea of "slow learning" and quite interesting comments on how "technology learning" is promoted... powerful statements.
LTC teacher Spencer is exploring the new version of Scratch 1.4 ( download it at http://scratch.mit.edu ) and took home a Lego WeDo to play with as well. He came back the next day with this amazing simple and complex use of them for a driving game! Check out how he used the tilt sensor! (Amon Milner inspired? Check out his steering wheel hook-ups work with the PICOboard) and you can speed up and slow down! - using the distance sensor...
The Disposable Film Festival celebrates "short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices."
The festival, started in 2007, has screened in San Francisco (its home town), New York, London, and Paris. Entries are solicited online from all over the world.
Here is a short trailer for the festival (my friend plays the pink cell phone):
