Amy McManus's blog

Flyer for Workshop

What to put on Flash Drives:

Scratch program (Mac and PC)

Some examples-- everyone please send samples  to Keith  ( saved as ie:    04_bookreview  :  08xmasanimation)

PDF page with a few helpful links provided by Kent :)

Do we think we need the lesson plans here also?

Anything else?

I have color coded the Tips and Tricks page to make it a little easier to find things quickly...

Here is a link to my Scratch page with student examples. Some of their Holiday animated greeting cards are posted.

http://scratch.mit.edu/users/amcmanus

When my students created their animated Xmas greeting cards, they wanted to share via e-mail. This would only work if the person on the other end either had Scratch, or would take  the time to download  to watch their project.  Molly told me about www.Screencast-o-matic.com.
This site actually does a screen capture of your project and makes it a quick time format.  You can either send a link with this, or download the quicktime to share with others.

I enjoyed visiting Molly's class last week. The 5th graders were working on their projects of a book review of the book "The Island of the Blue Dolphins".  The students were working on adding content to their scratch projects.  Most of them had the art part completed and now were working on creating a sprite to be a "tour guide" around the island they had created. This was a great way to show another avenue for students to do an interactive book review instead of paper/pencil.  The students were very creative!

Molly came for her observation time on Thursday. It was a hectic day with students coming and going but I think we were able to share some of the projects my 8th grade students were proud of.

http://nebomusic.net/scratch.html

I made a grid on a large sheet of cardboard and held it up in front of my projected screen with the cat on the stage.  This showed the students where the cat was in the center and helped them visualize where he could/would move to with their script directions.