{"id":38,"date":"2013-11-20T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmclaughlin.com\/web\/?p=38"},"modified":"2022-11-21T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:01:46","slug":"scratch-11-20-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/scratch-11-20-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch 11\/20\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214if_\/http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/embed\/10128483\/?autostart=false\" width=\"242\" height=\"201\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFirst of all I am taking advantage of my blog by saying \u201cThank You\u201d to my wonderful wife for all that she does. \u00a0Today is our wedding anniversery. \u00a0I love you \u201cMo Bhean Ch\u00e9ile \u00c1lainn\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214\/http:\/\/csedweek.org\/\">Hour of Code<\/a>\u00a0coming up (December 9th \u2013 15th) I thought I would devote the next few Techformation posts to discussing some of the great programs available for learning computer coding. \u00a0One of the easiest to get started with is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214\/http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scratch<\/a>. \u00a0This online programming environment is limited only by your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The example on the right is a Starfish Choir. \u00a0Just click on the Starfish to hear them sing. \u00a0If you like this program but would like to see it with maybe an added element you can import this program into your environment and modify it. \u00a0This is called a remix. \u00a0Currently there are 77 remixes of the Starfish Choir.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201clanguage\u201d is not difficult at all. \u00a0In fact I am tempted to not even call it a language. \u00a0It is extremely visual and all drag and drop. You can manipulate the built in characters on just draw some of your own. \u00a0In minutes you can create a very cool little program or given some practice you can create something like Starfish Choir or a full video game. \u00a0If your looking for a place to start look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214\/http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/editor\/?tip_bar=getStarted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step by step intro<\/a>. It is very clear and easy to work with. \u00a0Some of the Hour of Code tutorials are created with Scratch. \u00a0It would be a great leaping off point into coding with your students. \u00a0You can even connect Scratch to the real world. One programmer posted that he made an\u00a0new Android app that allows you to control a Scratch 1.4 project using any Android powered device. It lets you use a directional pad, buttons, accelerometer values, light sensor values, touch gestures, and voice commands in your project. \u00a0You can read more about the on the Scratch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214\/http:\/\/wiki.scratch.mit.edu\/wiki\/How_to_connect_to_the_physical_world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508201214if_\/http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/embed\/10741219\/?autostart=false\" width=\"242\" height=\"201\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>You can use this to learn with your students about coding or even use it to make very cool demonstrations or visualizations for your lessons. This one was created to go over factoring Greatest Common Factors.<\/p>\n<p>So jump in and get coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all I am taking advantage of my blog by saying \u201cThank You\u201d to my wonderful wife for all that she does. \u00a0Today is our wedding anniversery. \u00a0I love you \u201cMo Bhean Ch\u00e9ile \u00c1lainn\u201d In honor of the\u00a0Hour of Code\u00a0coming up (December 9th \u2013 15th) I thought I would devote the next few Techformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}