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Welcome to the distribution center for BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks), an advanced offshoot of Scratch, a visual programming language primarily for kids from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. This version, developed by Jens Mönig with design input and documentation from Brian Harvey, is an attempt to extend the brilliant accessibility of Scratch to somewhat older users-in particular, non-CS-major computer science students-without becoming inaccessible to its original audience. BYOB 3 adds first class lists, sprites, and procedures to BYOB's original contribution of custom blocks and recursion.

Offshoot of Scratch: BYOB 3 adds first class lists, sprites, and procedures to BYOB's original contribution of custom blocks and recursion.

A new studio classroom inspired excitement and motivated productive feedback from early faculty and student users

A sample proposal for a 21st century skills emphasizing learning lab.

Interactive manipulatives for students to integrate ICT topics

programming interactive manipulative for primary students

"I have been using Scratch, a drag and drop programming language developed by researchers at MIT, since November 2007. I am quite excited about its potential for teaching other skills besides programming. I have set up this wiki to build-up a course for beginner programmers."

"When you move an entire district into a digital environment a lot of things change. What doesn't change is the fact that everything revolves around academic achievement."

More resources for using Scratch in lessons

Lots of lessons for learning how to program with Scratch

Interactive SQL tutorials

This free typing tutor teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type. The program comes in three versions: Standard, Accessible and Spanish. Use the menu on the left to navigate to the version you are interested in.

Good Typing is a free online typing skill development program. Good Typing provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn to use their entire keyboards correctly. Unlike some free online typing programs, Good Typing offers support twenty different keyboard styles including US style, Japanese style, and several European languages.

Typing Web is one of those tutorials that provides instant feedback after every free typing lesson. Typing Web offers beginner through advanced typing lessons for free. You can register to track your progress or you can use Typing Web without registering.

ZOMG! Like the Scratch programming application, but runs in your browser and on mobile devices!

Shared by Jim Gates, who is awesome sauce.

a tour of Palo Alto/Silicon Valley tech start-ups from 1939 with Hewlitt and Packard