Molly Schroeder's blog

Here are a few things that I've been working on for my Scratch Night...let me know if you have any ideas!
Attached is the flyer that I will use to advertise

Here is the link to the sign up form that I made in Google forms to gather info about who might come...
www.followmolly.com

Here is the progress I've made on my planning document:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dwsxzq2_2f7wdbs54

Here are my notes that I took from the meeting tonight...use as you'd like!
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dwsxzq2_0rqqmg4pw

Here is my section of the Scratch Website.  I will update the Favorites with the great examples that the kids have done.
http://scratch.mit.edu/users/molschroeder

In tonight's meeting we talked about how I had created classroom accounts for the teachers so that the kids could all post to one place and a teacher could link to the classroom SCRATCH site from their classroom web page.  Some of the tricks that I used are to have a classroom login name...I usually use the last name and the word class, for example schroederclass and then I give a password, usually the school name.  This way the kids all upload and share their projects to the same account so the teacher can have all the classroom projects in one place.  This can be a bit dangero

Here is a cheat sheet I made for kids and parents to download software and directions on how to upload and download projects on the web.

Here are some vocab cards I made for SCRATCH

Before winter break I had the opportunity to observe Amy at her school just a few blocks away from my office!  It was so great to just step inside another school to see what life was like in another world.  Amy also teaches older students so it was great to be surrounded by students older than I am used to.  As I walked into the computer lab the students were just opening their SCRATCH projects.  They had been working on holiday greeting cards and were using this time for more work time.  It amazed me to walk around and see what the students had created.  I have b

Keith
Can you post your presentation from TIES...I'd love to save those projects as my favorites and I loved the Rubric from one of the people you showcased.  I learned a lot about SCRATCH and so many more ways to use SCRATCH.  Great job at the conference, thanks for sharing!

Molly

Okay, so my next project is to work with a group of 5th grade students to create an interactive map of their book...Island of the Blue Dolphins.  So each of the kids are going to draw their own island as the stage and then they are required to create four interactive features on their island.  The interactive features would be things that related to the book...about the characters, setting, plot or major events.  Creating the interactive map with information for each sprite would be part one...but then I wanted to expand the project so that kids could make this interactive map a

Here are some Scratch Examples that I have done with students

Molly Schroeder's Examples: used to model to students

4th Grade Minnesota Project

3rd Grade Figurative Language Project (still in process...more to be added in mid-December)