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Ten Years of Scratch
Ten years ago, I was teaching a multimedia graduate class in which we were looking at different multimedia environments that could be used to develop educational content. The course culminated with an Adobe Flash project, but we explored other applications … Continue reading
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Tagged education, hour of code, programming, scratch
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PowerPoint the new Microsoft Video Editor
A long time ago on an operating system far from Windows 10, there was a video editor called Movie Maker. At some point, someone decided a video editor was too much for most people to handle, and it was removed … Continue reading
Google Drive File Stream is Magical
In September, Google announced Google Drive App will no longer be supported starting December 11, 2017. Two different applications are replacing the Google Drive App. Those apps are “Backup and Sync” and Google Drive File Stream. Backup and Sync is … Continue reading
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Drag Racer (Scratch)
Scratch is an amazing coding environment for beginner programmers. Here is an easy to play two-player drag racing game. Each player uses only two keys. One key accelerates the car. The second key shifts to a higher gear. Since there … Continue reading
Slot Car Racing
This Scratch game is a throwback to the 1960s. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/157839119/ It’s a simple two player game. One player uses the A key to accelerate. The other player uses the L key. Don’t go too fast or you will fly off … Continue reading