Sophie Tutorial

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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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

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

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