There is a cool Mod of scratch called Build Your Own Blocks .. worth exploring when you a have a few min<br><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=777181&gid=74440&trk=EML_anet_ac_pst_ttle">http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=777181&gid=74440&trk=EML_anet_ac_pst_ttle</a><br>
<br>I used this to leapfrog onto programming with Python.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mppascoe@tpg.com.au">mppascoe@tpg.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I have been playing
around with Scratch over the holidays, and want to use it with my Year 9 ICT
class next year as a lead in to Actionscript. Is there any problem with
downloading and running Scratch on school networks ? </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Eg. With Flash, all
creation of .SWF files is blocked by our network, (because kids put thousands of
.SWF games up there otherwise); and so I have to get a special folder setup for
each student where they can make .SWFs. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Are there any
problems I might have with them running their Scratch projects on computers
connected to the network that people know of as being common in schools?
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Thanks, Paul Pascoe
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>St Francis Xavier
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