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Scratch Resources

The Scratch Wiki
http://scratch.wik.is/index.php

Scratch forum for Educators
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewforum.php?id=7

Scratch Resources from Bill Kerr:

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/scratch-resources.html
Scratch resources - these are the best resources I have found so far - I would use these next year (found them too late for this year)
item one includes a list of programming features scratch does not support
(data structures (arrays, etc.), procedures and functions, recursion, inheritance, defining classes of objects, exception handling, parameter passing and return values, text input, file input/output)

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/scratch-sensor-board.html
Scratch-sensor-board

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/07/creating-piano-keyboard-using-scratch.html
Creating-piano-keyboard-using-scratch:
Intro to piano keyboard - what I found in the end was that it was easier to play the piano by using extra rows on the keyboard, rather than employ a double key combination suggested in this blog.

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/scratch-music-worksheet.html
Scratch-music-worksheet:
Intro to other music scratch abilities

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-problem-with-scratch.html
Read this one for the barry newell shapes.

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/04/maths-should-evolve-with-computers.html
Papert article which argues that computers ought to be used as a dynamic medium - I mentioned this in the interview

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/03/low-floor-high-ceiling-or-low-floor.html
Low entry, high ceiling, wide walls?
see the quote from Detha Elza outlining the limitations of scratch

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/03/scratch.html
Initial research I did on scratch before using it - includes some interesting facts, eg. it is used at Harvard as an introduction to programming

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/search/label/scratch
Items tagged 'Scratch' from Bill Kerr's Blog.

http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/03/scratch-challenges-introductory.html
Scratch challanges Bill Kerr has used with students.

Tutorials and Introduction Exercises

Year 5/6 Student 'video podcasts' on using Scratch
http://www.expo.spps.org/Scratch_Tutorials.html

Video tutorials for Learning Scratch
http://www.learnscratch.org

Scratch Textbooks

A Open Textbook on Scratch
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scratch

Scratch Programming for Teens by Jerry Lee Ford Jr
http://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Programming-Teens-Jerry-Ford/dp/1598635360/

Squeak Resources

Home of Squeak eToys
http://www.squeakland.org

Squeak sWiki
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak

Squeak By Example: An Electronic Text on Teaching with Squeak
http://www.squeakbyexample.org/

eToys and OLPC Resources

One Laptop Per Child (the '$100USD' laptop)
http://www.laptop.org

OLPC Wiki: General Content but lots of information on eToys/Squeak
http://wiki.laptop.org