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Catroid is a visual programming language for Android devices that is inspired by the Scratch programming language for PCs, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is the aim of the Catroid project to facilitate the learning of programming skills among children and users of all ages. No desktop or notebook computer is needed.

"Drawing For Children Written by Mark Overmars Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable for very young children and has a child mode especially for them. But it also provides lots of fun to older kids. It is used by hundreds of thousands of kids all over the world. The best way to see what is possible is to simply download it and install it. Remember, it is free. "

"Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational thinking and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. The cloud hosted system is now available to teachers, schools and districts. Learn more..."

Lesson plans, activities and teaching resources using NXT for Mindstorms robots

AR SPOT is an augmented-reality authoring environment for children. An extension of MIT's Scratch project, this environment allows children to create experiences that mix real and virtual elements. Children can display virtual objects on a real-world scene observed through a video camera, and they can control the virtual world through interactions between physical objects. This project aims to expand the range of creative experiences for young authors, by presenting AR technology in ways appropriate for this audience. In this process, we investigate how young children conceptualize augmented reality experiences, and shape the authoring environment according to this knowledge.

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An amazing 'must try' animated storyboard creator downloadable program. Make superb storyboards, complete with sound, by simply clicking and dragging backgrounds and characters into place from the library. You can even upload your own images. It's so simple to edit that any age of student can use it.

Pivot animation is a simple but widely used program to make stick figure cartoons. Download it from the snapfiles site

"Gamestar Mechanic is a game and online community that teaches kids how to design their own games!"

very cool random number, coin, card, coordinate generator and more...

If you are in education and you don't know how some programs works or what it is, then please watch these videos. It will amaze you just how much incredible educational content there is and ANYONE with a computer can access it.

app maker from MIT with tutortials for kids

Free coding site

"Remix, Make and Share Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser."

"Kids Can Now Build Their Own Xbox Games with Kodu Game Lab"

A revolutionary platform for virtual building. This is LEGO Digital Designer. The program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer.

You might find it useful for a class, to build their own 3D virtual platforms.

Sharendipity is a web based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging and interactive web applications.

The NTX is the brain of a Mindstorm robot. It's an intelligent computer-controlled LEGO brick that lets a Mindstorm robot come alive and perform different operations