Scratch Turns 10
Last weekend I got to spend Saturday with over 300 people enjoying Scratch Day at MIT. We have this event every year, but this year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Scratch launch....
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Scratch Conference 2014
This week the Lifelong Kindergarten Group is hosting the fourth Scratch Conference at the Media Lab. It’s wonderful to reconnect with educators from earlier conferences and to meet new people. I am still trying...
Computer Clubhouse 20th Anniversary
This week the Computer Clubhouse Network held its annual conference here in Boston. It’s here in Boston because 2013 is the 20th Anniversary of the start of the first Computer Clubhouse at the Computer...
Scratch Team Blog on Blogger’s Blogs of Note
I missed it on the day, but on Monday, the Scratch Team’s blog was Blogger’s daily Blog of Note. Yeah!
Scratch Day 2010
Today was Scratch Day, a worldwide network of gatherings where people meet up and celebrate and learn about Scratch. We had our own Scratch Club Open House at Clarke yesterday, where the Scratch Club...
The iPad controversy
You’ve probably heard some of the noise about how riled up programmers are getting about the iPad (link1, link2, link3). The basic issue has to do with with the tension between hardware vendors and...
Exquisite Corpse at Scratch Club
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the kids in the Scratch Club to try new things. I decided to try something a little different this year. Since we have two classrooms,...
Clarke Scratch Club – Year 4 begins
Scratch Club started up again at Clarke. This is the fourth year that I’m running the Scratch Programming Club after school at the kids’ middle school. The sign up sheets were overflowing with names...
Maker Faire Rhode Island
There was a Maker Faire in Rhode Island last week. We visited on the final Saturday. It was a pretty fall day and everyone was out showing off the things they’d made. For example,...
Hello Again
Peter hasn’t really been posting much on his own, so we’re adding the rest of the family as editors. Hopefully that’ll result in a little better traffic. Here’s a picture of the kids at...
