Late update - last week (5th May) was our first official meeting. It's clear many of the students have some advanced programming skills in Scratch and I'll be looking at some attactivities to push them. The club is all about peer assistance, so as much as possible I'm trying to get the kids to learn from each other and share experiences. I know some of the students want to show off what they have created, so I will fit in a time every 3 weeks or so for the best scratch project to be demonstrated to the club. Hopefull this will allow everyone to understand each other's skills and to have ideas shared arround. This week I'm hoping to discuss a concept each student can focus on, to make them ask "how do I do that in Scratch". We'll try to discuss story boarding, backgrounds, characters and their abilitites.
I visted the first CoderDojo of the year at UWA this weekend. This is a forum for teenagers to learn abotu programming (Scratch, HTML, Python). I was happy to see that our format and the skills of some of our students are competitive with what's being done for students at the secondary school level.
For those at home: If you're following along with this blog and can't attend the club, think about a game you might want to make, where is it set - draw out the setting on paper if you wish (you can later scan this image and upload to use as a background). Think about you character - what do they do (shoot, hug, skip)... What sounds are made (bang, burp, meow) and what's the aim of the game ( get the aliens, find the easter eggs anything). Once you have these ideas, we can think about what scratch can do to make it happen. As much as possible we want to make our scenes,characters and sounds ourselves. This is fun and avoids copyright issues - especially for those who are keen on "selling" their game:)
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