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Scratch Computer Programming
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Scratch files have a .SP extension. Scratch projects can be quite large, especially if you record lots of sound effects or use lots of backgrounds.

Save downloaded projects in:
C:\Program Files\scratch\projects

 

Set Up:
Tools Installation

Intro to Parents and Teachers

File Management
(Order vs. Chaos)

BIY Game Development
Webcast presentation from specialists at Build-It-Yourself

Power Point Lab Book

Lesson Plan

Got Game? The Value of Computer Games:
There is a common perception that computer games can be bad for kids.  

For parents who are concerned about their children wasting time playing computer games, we talk about the +'s and -'s of computer games and refer them to the Harvard Business School Press book, 'Got Game.'

 

Storylines:
All Build-It-Yourself projects start with a storyline ... typically a social problem that kids can relate to and a mission to solve or better understand that problem.  This serves to stimulate imagination, focus attention and lay the framework for planning a project.  

Writing Stories
Webcast presentation by Valeria Roman, science journalist at El Clarin

Elements of a Story
Elements of a Poem

Graphics:
If a great idea or execution of that idea is not presented well, it may not get the attention it deserves.  For this reason, Build-It-Yourself spends as much time on the art of presenting ideas as on the execution of ideas.

Three Ways to Present Ideas
Pixel vs. Vector Graphics
PowerPoint Drawing
Cartooning
Animated Graphics
Graffiti

Sound Effects:
Kids generally love to search for playful sound effects ... or better yet, create and record their own sound effects.

Steps for creating sound effects are in the BIY Game Development presentation.

Game Logic and Programming:
A series of projects starting from simple and progressing to more and more complex challenges is presented in the BIY Game Development presentation.

Program Planning
Webcast Presentation by Seth Mastin, MIT, Computer Science

Scratch Program Primatives
Webcast Presentation by Liu Huan, MIT, Electrical Engineering

Scratch Templates
Scratch Modules / Building Blocks

 

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