[Yr7-10it] Scratch -- great stuff!

[Russell Edwards]

I just wanted to share a little success story...

.. I just installed Scratch in the class area of a network drive.  I  
was about to ask a student to test it for me when one of my more  
habitually disengaged students remarked about his similarly-inclined  
friend, "Sir, _____ is accessing inappropriate material!!". This  
"inappropriate material" turned out to be Scratch. _______ quickly  
closed it before I could say "No no, feel free to have a play."  At  
this the group of four students opened it up and spent the rest of  
the session playing around with it-- not just looking at the examples  
but getting stuck right in to making their own animations and games!

  This is great!   No class instruction, no demonstration, no lesson  
plan,  no resources to prepare... just put it on the network drive  
and step back!! ;-)

Russell


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