Scratch

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While at the Scratch conference I had a chance to talk with Ryan and Luigi from the Exploratorium, and Robbie Berg from Wellesley College.

I was mentioning the things we ( LTC) were doing and the things we were thinking about with our work- - with Scratch, with fabrication, with programming, with art... and found out about what the Learning Lab at the Exploratorium and Robbie was thinking about with his students.

I wondered if it might be good to have a middle place where we could feed things that we all could take a look at...

We held the final Media MashUp meeting of the project team June 3-4.

We shared our work over the last year at sites you can find here on our project Google Map mashup.

Here's a mashup map of the Media MashUp project sites and our dissemination travels. Check out the little green icons...

The latest making@smm workshop video is here!

Thanks to Peter Kirchman - for creating the video, with kudos to cameramen Ben Egerman and Robert Frank .

Take a look at the presentation for DesignBlocks - a great evening with Evelyn Eastmond immersing us in creating with DesignBlocks  and special guest Teresa Harmela demoing a new version of Scratch to control the Arduino!

BryanK sent me a note with links about Apple pulling the Scratch app from the iPhone/Touch/iPad app store -

One was on Hacker news and the other on the Computing Ed blog

It seems personal when they do this and it got me also thinking about the hard line Apple was taking with their new platform of simple computing.

Evelyn took some great photos from the evening of experimentation, exploration, art and design with Design Blocks!
Thanks to everyone for participating!

I created a webcast to supplement the discussion on how you get Scratch to write activity reports on individual or groups of projects.

To get a better sense of doing this you might want to open Scratch on your computer - and you can pause the movie to follow along. 

My movie cuts off the first part - just that- I open scratch, and save the new project... do this and you'll be up to speed

This was our third workshop. We had experimented with the Beta program, the sensor board and lists - collecting data and using it in a list. Out of the teams reflection conversations with Robby, they decided they were interested in focusing on building a system that could capture visitor numbers coming into the Big Back Yard and as an extension; how many of the visitors were coming up to the Science activities.