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

[Kerrie A Hammond]

Hello Russell 
In another of your emails you mention that you have prepared some Gamemaker modules for students. 
We have just installed GM on our system and I am keen to use it with one of our junior classes. Would you be prepared to share your resources? Alternatively can you point me in the right direction to find some?
 
Many thanks
Kerrie Hammond
Trinity College Colac

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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Russell Edwards
Sent: Thu 9/13/2007 10:35 AM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Yr7-10it] Scratch -- great stuff!



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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