Day 1: Let's Start Scratching!
Welcome to Scratch for Educators! In this five session workshop you will learn to use one of the most engaging, educational, and just plain awesome software technologies there is. Scratch is great for telling stories, making simulations and games, and learning 21st century media skills. It is a constructivist, media rich learning environment with an online community that hosts almost 8 million (at the time of this writing) example projects that you can learn from.
Activities:
- Set up our Scratch accounts and take a quick tour of the Scratch envrionment with Twenty Minute Intro to Scratch for Educators.
- Create your first Scratch project: Visiting the Four Quadrants.