Scratch

 

Previous Knowledge.

The first time I saw Scratch was at the Computing in Schools Conference in July and I have no previous knowledge of this.

Strengths.

Although I don't know much about it I can learn how to use scratch.

Weaknesses.

Initially it might be difficult to create complicated Scratch programs.

Current Knowledge.

After watching the demonstrations of Scratch it looks fairly intuative and I should be able to create a simle program.

 

Teaching Ideas.

Scratch is a program that encourages students to animation a cat named Scratch.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Lesson 1.

Flick Scratches tail.

There is also an online version to the scratch program to play on at this site.