{"id":95,"date":"2007-04-05T22:59:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T03:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/05\/scratch\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T00:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T05:03:20","slug":"scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/05\/scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=scratch.png src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/scratch.png\" align=\"right\" \/>If you are looking for a way to introduce programming to an elementary class, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\">Scratch from MIT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/11\/29\/squeak\">Squeak<\/a>, but with a Lego-like feel.  You use pre-made building blocks to create programs.  Your finished project can be uploaded to the Scratch site using a YouTube-like utility.  There it is made available for anyone on the web.  You don\u2019t need anything special to try out the student projects.  Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/channel\/recent\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a way to introduce programming to an elementary class, take a look at Scratch from MIT. Scratch reminds me of Squeak, but with a Lego-like feel. You use pre-made building blocks to create programs. Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/05\/scratch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}