[Yr11 Information Technology] Scratch on Networks at School

[Roland Gesthuizen]

There is a cool Mod of scratch called Build Your Own Blocks .. worth
exploring when you a have a few min

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=777181&gid=74440&trk=EML_anet_ac_pst_ttle

I used this to leapfrog onto programming with Python.

Regards Roland

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, <mppascoe at tpg.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> 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 ?
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks, Paul Pascoe
> St Francis Xavier College Berwick.
>
> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/
>
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College

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