My experience with Scratch was actually was quite fun! I found it really hard to use but if you have a concept, it is easy to let your idea flow. I first knew that I wanted to do an animation dancing somehow, so I took some photos of Shakira bellydancing on youtube, but then I decided to change my idea and take an animation that was probably dancing, being that it was hard to take photos of Shakira from a Youtube video because it goes on too fast. So then I stumbled upon an animation of a drummer girl animation and then I researched how to make the sound of the drum along with her hair changing to the beat, and then I added the letters to my name J_E-S-S-I-C-A, which would change each time the drum banged as well.
The two connections that I probably would make to Scratch and the classroom would be storytelling. Just like I did, students would have to pitch a story to me of what characters that they might use and what the action would be and what the background might look like. After all of those ideas are put forward, then we would look up how other scratch makers embed the code in order to help them tell the story that they wanted to tell.
Another connection to Scratch and the classroom that I would make would just be to explore. As you can see I posted a Scratch of Kevin the professor from Santa Cruz California, and he made his Scratch fun by adding different glasses onto his sprite the cat. Your sprite can be also used to tell a political story, just as Richard my professor at Teacher's College did with a cop with a spray can, spraying the famous Fine Art photos as his background.
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