Remix

Today, the students learned how to explore existing Scratch projects and Remix them.  Students had the most fun working with the DJ and the pong style game.  Several students began working on music video remixes and several started brainstorming how they could make their own Minecraft project!

Broadcasting and Receiving

Today we practiced with the Broadcast/receive technique a bit more.  We played a game where students were the computer and they had to look up what word they received and then try to broadcast the second part of their joke:

After some practice, we got back on the computers and the students worked on their own jokes.  Some of them were able to add additional characters and some added their own laugh track!

They also started working with motion in Scratch.  Once they got their sprites spinning, there was no stopping them (I got dizzy just watching them!).

Do you know a good joke?

Today we worked on interactivity in Scratch.  The students learned to create a joke!  We started with my pretty lame joke:

But it allowed us to explore some new tricks, such as changing the direction of the sprite, and how to take turns.  It took quite a bit of practice to get used to the broadcast/receive, broadcast/receive part of it.  We probably need a bit more practice!