Transcript for Scratch Workshop Video

Hi, I'm Tammy. -And I'm Jay.

And we just spent the last several weeks working with a group of 13 year olds doing a Scratch Workshop.

Asi que ahora vamos a compartir con ustedes como nos fue en el taller and a little of the ups and the downs, and everything else.

First we did an icebraker. People got into pairs, and taught each other something they knew.

Like how to say "I love you" in Chinese,

And how monkeys groom each other.

We let everyone take the mouse, and point to something they noticed on the screen.

We show sample projects that come with Scratch, and sometimes, we show ones that we made.

For example, here Jay is showing a digital mask project that he made.

And now I'm showing my Scratch aerobics project

Then we showed how the scratch blocks work, by doing something similar to what's in the getting started guide.

The vast majority of the time was spent Scratching on computers

We were there to help when people needed it, but after a little while they started to help each other.

We got cameras out

and took lots of pictures.

We brought all of their pictures into Scratch and started working on a community project together.

The project was situated in their school hallway.

Some people took more pictures, cut them out, and created all sorts of projects with their pictures in them.

To make sure everyone at least has a place to start, we like to give project themes.

Like dance...

...animate your name...

...or make a project all about yourself.

We always leave time for them to get together and talk about their projects.

One thing that was really important to us was having a supportive and collaborative environment.

So we found it useful to have a round table and a projector where we could all come together and share ideas.