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Scratch cards provide a quick way to learn new Scratch code. The front of the card shows what you can do; the back shows how to do it. Click to view and print each card. Found via Seedlings podcast

this program enables users to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art-- and share them online.

A great site to help students learn how to code easily

Integrantes del "Lifelong Kindergarten Group", grupo de investigación del MIT desarrollador de Scratch, viene realizando una serie de "Webinars" [1] para profundizar sobre diversos aspectos de Scratch. El segundo de estos, a cargo de los Doctores  Mitchel Resnick y Karen Brennan, estuvo dedicado a plantear "cuatro preguntas sobre Scratch". Con dos de ellas se exploran grandes ideas que subyacen tras este entorno de programación de computadores:

This Scratch curriculum guide provides an introduction to creative computing with Scratch, using a design-based learning approach. The guide is organized as a series of twenty 60-minute sessions, and includes session plans, handouts, projects, and videos. The 20 sessions presented in this guide are organized into 5 topics: introductionartsstoriesgamesfinal project

A design-based introduction to computational thinking with Scratch

Free "learn to program" - also works with scratch projects. Includes class management tool for student assignments. My students like it better than Scratch.

We've been "Scratching" for a while, and I'm curious if they compared Scratch 1.4 or 2.0, the Web-based version now out, which my students like better than the original. There are classroom management elements coming for Scratch in the near future, but I did find that there were a few more interesting controls in Tynker, particularly the "physics" blocks.... If it gets kids coding, its all good :)

"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create interactive art, stories, simulations, and games - and share those creations online."

Good lessons for students learning Scratch programming

Scratch is a simple yet powerful programming language for children that is very easy to use yet contains many of the important programming constructs found in more "grown up" languages. This presentation looks at some of the key ideas behind programming in Scratch.

Scratch setup instructions, including limiting drives that students see (we might want just C:, S:, and T:) + setting proxy

a blog posting from Zoe about Scratch

The project is called Scratchable Devices, and with it, computer science Professor Michael Littman and some of his students are working to make it easy for anyone to program their household devices by using Scratch.

"AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat

The first of two episodes with Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Professor of Learning Research, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory.

What a great idea!!!