Thursday, May 22, 2008

Learn Scratch - More Great Scratch Tutorials



learnscratch.org - DR-04: Lego Kit


DR-04: Lego Kit
This project simulates a lego construction kit, allowing the creation of sophisticated designs with a relatively simple program.

Expo Scratch Tutorials


Scratch Tutorials
Students at Expo were beta testers for a new programming software called Scratch. Designed specifically for youth, it allows them to create their own stories, animations, fames, music and art.

Scratch tutorials from www.expo.spps.org

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Etch a sketch on Scratch by Mark0108

Number bonds to 10 by MrShah on Scratch

Tower of Hanoi by daeheryn on Scratch

Potlatch Video

Anybody know what it is?

http://www.anashinteractive.com/


~ Anash Interactive ~
This is an awesome Site, I love the entrance page. The site relies heavily on flash, but it is an awesome place to interact with Tlingit Culture. Also, you get to drag and drop to creat comic books and resize, how awesome is that?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Supera Mario - Turtle thingy trick

Not that this has anything to do with Homework Club, but I was playing this a month ago, and couldn't do the jumping on the turtle thing anymore and it was driving me up the wall. I could do that with no problem when I was a kid though. Anyways here is a video of somebody doing the turtle trick over and over again.

Discovery Channel: I love the world

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Sight Words

Sight Words With Samson
An interactive sight for learning sight words.

Build Your Wild Self

Build your Wild Self Go on, go make yourself with some animal features :)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Scratch Tutorial - Fish Eating Game

This is a nifty tutorial that will be useful for teaching students how to create a game.
Fish!
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Fish !

Fish! is a simple game that can be built quickly by a novice scratch programmer. The main character is a shark which is controlled by the mouse and wanders around the screen eating fish. Yellow fish taste nice but eating a red fish will give the shark indigestion.

The basic principles behind of this type of game can be used to make many different games simply by changing the background and the graphics on the sprites. A game set in space with a rocket chasing astronauts and aliens would be simple to create using fish! as a base.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

First Voices Kids Site - Kwakwala Words and Phrases

First Voices offers a Kids Site that will give you the English word and Kwakwala pronunciation and Spelling of single words and phrases. This is an awesome resource and I use it with a three year old who pronounces the words better than I do.

Periodic Table - Scratch

The song is catchy :)
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Stop the Invasion - Scratch

Not to drive people nuts with all this Scratch, but I love it and am posting things that I think my students would like. Or rather, that I want them to play!
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Scratch Orages

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Scratch Pong Game

This is the pong game that I made using scratch. I'm going to write a tutorial and get the students to make their own game.
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Drawdio

I think this is neat, but it really would drive me up a wall. But it is so cool!

Computer Clubhouse


Computer Clubhouse
The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe after-school learning environment where young people from under-served communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.

From the folks at the Lifelong Kindergarten Project.

I'm not sure why but there are numerous countries listed, and none of them are in Canada. Sad as I would really enjoy seeing a project like this somewhere close by

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Scratch

I took a computer training course (week long) offered by UVIC and IBM last week, the instructors were very nice, very smart, and really just awesome. One of the instuctors, Sarah, showed me a program called Scratch.

There are two reasons I really enjoyed this program. Firstly, I found that it a good introduction to programming, and makes the processes that one goes through while programming easier to understand. I find the visuals aid in learning, and the program itself is very interactive. Secondly, I work with students and I am rather excited to show them this program. I think they will love it, and am hoping that it will get a few of them hooked and that they may find something they might want to consider going into after highschool (ie a computer science program).

Currently, I am going to write a short tutorial on how to develop a pong game and then I plan on sharing it with the kids at work first, and then the students at FRES.

I am hoping that after they develop their own pong games that they will go on to develop different games and projects with scratch.

Evolution Explained with Scratch