An update on TIES presentation and another Scratch window into scratch projects

Hi all - I've posted the slides I made for the TIES presentation I made with Karen Randall who teaches at Expo Elementary and Evelyn Eastmond. Evelyn is from the Scratch development team. She is in charge of coordinating all of the Scratch translation of the Application, the Scratch website and the support materials. ( currently at 42 languages!)

Our presentation was to talk about the background of the translation effort and the opportunities there are for global collaboration through Scratch.

Putting up the slides took a bit of extra effort as they're actually web pages We did it this way because we wanted to embed Scratch projects into the 'slides' and not jump in and out of Scratch and Powerpoint. If interested I can show you how to do this.

Something else you may or may not be interested in is a demonstration I made, of creating activity reports in Scratch. What these are, are text files that are created so that a researcher can see the history of a project created in Scratch - it lists dates and times of changes made to a Scratch project. We currently have a project that has an evaluation of the learning thats happening when youth use scratch. To capture what the teens are doing in the program, this creates files that show their activity. Take a look at the link if you're interested in this.