Thursday, November 6, 2008

Scratch - getting started

We'll be learning Scratch using the instructional videos from learnscratch.org.

For the list of lessons, in the Video Courses menu the click on Scratch1. (The files are also in the Pickup Folder, where you click on LearnScratch.htm).

We will be covering one lesson (which might include several videos) per class.

The Pickup Folder also has a subfolder named LessonsfromLearnScratch.org_inWordFormat containing a Word document for each lesson outlining what is covered in the videos. This allows you to keep track of what we are covering without running all the videos.

There is also a subfolder named moreInfo_Scratch with a few files if you feel you need some extra help getting familiar with Scratch. (Scratch is so easy to learn that most people will not need this material.)

You can download your own copy of Scratch to use at home from http://scratch.mit.edu/.