Today, as I listened to the second Office Hours session, I continued to explore work by other Scratchers as part of the Creative Computing Online Workshop and attempted my first “Debug-It” project…

I have reflected on the work I have done for this “Debug-It” project according to the “triplet” for reviewing work:

• I like debugging!  I was actually quite surprised at how much I enjoyed this Debug-It activity!  I found that, after viewing the instructions and the original blocks, I had a picture in my mind of what I needed to do.  However, the rearrangement of the blocks didn’t work at all.  I was totally wrong!  I really enjoyed tinkering with different block configurations until I came up with my final result.  I had a real sense of satisfaction knowing that I had solved the issues.  I was particularly happy with the way the “Meow” speech bubbles worked with the “.5” timings.
• I wish I could complete more Debug-It activities in the future.
• What if I gave some Debug-It activities to our students?  Completing these types of activities can help you to learn a great deal about your students.  How do they cope with trouble shooting activities?  What is their reaction when they hit a “dead end”?  Do they like to work with others to find a solution or do they prefer to work alone?

Please click here to view my remixed “Debug-It” project.

 

I was fortunate enough to enjoy a long weekend due to the Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday today.  The weekend has given me a little extra time to devote to creating an “About Me” project.

From this project, I was able to explore some Scratch features that I had not used before including:

• Uploading recorded sounds
• Using the Sound Editor tools to edit uploaded recordings
• Exploring a variety of websites to find appropriate images/icons to use as sprites

I’ve reflected on the work I’ve done for this “About Me” project according to the “triplet” for reviewing work:

• I like the way a user can click a sprite to make something happen. 
• I wish I had more time to devote to this project as I would have loved to have added some narration and even a little more text with further explanations about the items I chose.
• What if I added more features to the sprites?  For example, make the girl dance when the music plays, make the TARDIS spin when its sound plays.  What if we made this project part of our activities for the new school year?  Scratch is not only an excellent way for students to create an “About Me” presentation but the Scratch Community would also be a wonderful way for students to share and comment on each other’s work.

You can click here to view my “About Me” project.

One of the tasks in the Creative Computing Online Course is to create our own “Design Notebook”.  Although Google Presentation is a suggested tool, I’ve decided that this would be an great opportunity for me to continue to make use of this blog and be an excellent record of this course.

During the first “Office Hour” webinar, Karen talked about the “triplet” for reviewing work.  This “triplet” is made up of three questions that we can ask our ourselves when reflecting on our work and also answer for our peers when reviewing items in their Design Notebooks.  I love this “triplet” concept, so have created a little graphic to illustrate the three questions…