Monthly Archives: May 2008

Scratch and ccHost

May 27, 2008 – 10:43 pm

Although Scratch has a great website, I decide not to use it as the focus of our work for a couple of reasons.
The official website only allows the sharing of whole Scratch projects and not individual scratch sprites. While the sharing of whole projects promotes remixing, the sharing of sprites means that programmers can assemble […]

By Richard | Posted in Parade Class | Comments (0)

Scratch

May 17, 2008 – 10:33 pm

Like many ICT teachers I immediately fell in love with Scratch, and have been using it with all of my classes. Sratch is a programming language for kids a bit like MicroWorlds but better. I love Scratch for a number of reasons:

it is open source and free
programming is fun with its graphical building blocks
sprites […]

By Richard | Posted in Fairies Wheel | Comments (0)