SSM Meeting February 5, 2009

• May 16^th is the Day of SCRATCH
• More formal with presentations
• Formal Educators – public school teachers
• Informal Educators- library
• Youth Educators- clubs, mentors, etc.
• April 4, 2009 Scratch Meet-up (informal Day of Scratch)
• Informal
• Focus on students teaching others

• weather
• animate and describe insects
• Electricity- Create a circuit and show a light bulb at the end after they create the circuit

• tell about changing the password when you are done with the project
• Update blog with examples of some SCRATCH projects

• Host an individual SCRATCH night at each of our sites
• $300 for snacks
• GOALS:
• Supportive learning community
• Observations
• TIES
• Science House Drop-In's
• Online Blog- samples and tricks
• SMM staff visits
• How can we use online Scratch Resources
• Scratch Cards
• training videos
• research backing articles
• time issue for posting to the blog
• RSS feed of online blogs
• What is the best way to introduce programming to many grade levels?
• Share real world examples like cell phone, sensors in the bathroom (automatic flush, sensor to sink, automatic hand drivers)
• present at staff meetings and allow teachers to come up with ideas
• Generate real world examples that kids can use
• maybe not real world examples but curriculum connections
• teachers can use this to meet classroom curriculum standards
• authentic, experiential, relevant projects
• greeting cards
• Public service announcements
• What chunks of knowledge that teachers and kids need for success in creating a project
• Hands on time
• Direct instruction
• Time to play
• Time to follow up with a teacher so that they can ask questions or problem solve
• Progression of experiences for the teacher to play, experiment, debug, share, evaluate, imagine
• How do we inspire others (see above)
• How do we know if we reached our goal
• Good turn out at the workshops
• Each of the teachers in this grant are using SCRATCH with their students and teachers
• Survey the students about SCRATCH
• Sharing projects with each other
• Are other teachers in our school using scratch
• What is the best way to teach kids to be teachers?
• College
• Sharing with each other
• Debugging as a class
• Designate some helpers
• Showcasing projects
• Downloading projects from the website
• Pair them up with skill based knowledge

• Flash drives with resources for SCRATCH
• Laminate scratch cards to give out to people
• Scratch Vocabulary cards laminated
• SMART file with how to teach SCRATCH
• Food!
• Print out Reference guides into books to give out
• Help screens in a book along with short cuts
• Invite Keith and Sabrina to the dissemination workshop
• Have students there teaching teachers how to animate their name
• Could SMM give out wrist bands
• How do we get the $$? Purchase the stuff and then turn in receipts to Sabrina?
• Time limit for workshop? 2 shorter workshops or one longer workshop
• Plan for Dissemination Workshop due by Feb 27th
• Post on the Site
• Date of workshop
• Resources and materials
• Content
• Snack list
• Time frame
• Target audience
• Enhancements and enticements
• goal for you and goals for your workshop participants
• Date, time and location
• how are you going to get the word out