Bit by Bit Podcast: 84
Bit By Bit Podcast: July 11, 2009
Show 84
I reflect on my use of the program Scratch in the computer lab for the past 2 years.
Note: This show is a long one (an hour)!
Links:
Resources Used for Lessons:
- Scratch Packet Example (PDF)
Planning, Assessment, Rubric - Lego Digital Designer (Used in my “Sandbox Lesson”)
- Scratch Intro Videos (Used in 1st Lesson)
- Scratch “Getting Started Booklet” (Used in 1st Lesson)
- Scratch Cards (What I use for partner work to learn Scratch)
- “What’s the Point?” (What I use for practice with X, Y Coordinates)
- Video Tutorial of “Glide” (We watched to understand X, Y Coordinates in Scratch)
- Scratch Permission Letter Example
- Reteaching Videos
- At this point, Students are building. If they get stuck, I remind them:
REMEMBER:
If you run into trouble you can do any of the following:
Ask other partners for help.
Review the manual.
Review the Scratch Cards.
Reteach yourself with the Scratch Videos.
Music:
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8 comments
Bob, I didn’t get a change to visit WES when you were doing these Scratch sessions with students, but I loved hearing your podcast about your work. I had many similar experiences opening the learning to 4th graders this year and next year I hope to be a bit more focused so we can get to publishing our Scratch projects. For me, it was some of the most exciting teaching I have done in recent times as they students helped each other and made their own discoveries. Thanks for your wonderful description and the organized set of links that I too used in my teaching. I went to a session at NECC09 on Scratch, here is the link: http://www.nebomusic.net/necc2009BYOL.html.
Bob,
first of all I must again take the opportunity to send my sincere thanks to you and all of your colleagues who share all the wonderful insights I and many other learn from. You are truly amazing.
Thes episode of Bit By Bit inspired me to publish a long post in Swedish about “Viral teacher learning, how to market new pedagogical metods”. Google makes a pretty fair translation.
Then I hope you might find some supporting insights in Computational thinking for everyone.
Now, enjoy the summer!
/richard
p.s. I entered my URL wrong for (one of my) Website (the link behind my name), this comment has the correct one. d.s.
Thank you Cathy and Richard for your comments!
Richard, loved the translation. Thanks for sharing. Great to hear from you!
Bob
Great podcast Bob! As I am mobile with just my iPhone I recorded some feedback for you with drop.io as a phonecast!
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That embed didn’t work, so here is the direct link:
http://drop.io/wesfryer/asset/voice-mail-jul-22-12-03-am
Hi Wes,
The dropio is asking for a password :/
Hey, sorry about that! I didn’t realize I’d setup that drop.io account with a guest password. I removed the guest password, so you should be able to click the link now. Oops!
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