My partner Becky and I met online to discuss our project together. We are doing two different lesson plans but they both connect with our big idea and the technique of glitch art. We both really enjoyed working with glitch art in class. We wanted to find a way to make glitch art more controlled […]
Class Assignments
Scratch Lesson Plan!
Here is my scratch lesson plan sample! My big idea is human and nature and I decided I would have my students create a choice game that allows the player to pick different options that have to do with the environment. In this sample, the player makes decisions that could end up helping the environment […]
Final Project Research
What are you exploring? Describe your process and progress so far. We are building on the glitch art project we did at the beginning of the semester. We want to expand it more with a tutorial we found, using photoshop we can control the “glitch” a lot more than just manipulating the actual code. We […]
Utopia/Dystopia Collaborative Game
Reflect on you and your group’s design thinking process. What was your contribution? Going into this project, my group and I already knew it was going to be challenging to create a scratch game with four people. We thought about splitting the work individually and having everyone do one section, however, we wanted to get […]
Response Post #8
Why did you pick this chapter? I chose a chapter called “Launching Boats” because the chapter explained how important play and exploration is. The author of the article compares teaching to the act of launching boats. ” We can think of the work we do in our maker spaces as a similar process to preparing […]
Partner Scratch Game!
Reflect on you and your partner’s design thinking process. What was your contribution? At first, due to some technical difficulties, we did not have as much time to talk about conflicts and what we wanted to do for our game during class. However, we were able to brainstorm a little through texting. After thinking, we […]
Response Post 6: Meaningful Making
Why did you pick this chapter? I chose this chapter to read because before creating a final project, I wanted to really understand why you should bring making into the classroom. This chapter was very inciteful and taught me the significance of incorporating making into the classroom. Many of the articles in this chapter came […]
Response Post #5 Mitch Resnick’s Ted Talk
Integrating Art and STEM: Resnick talks about how nice it is to see young students creating things on scratch. For example, he was happy to see how many children created mother’s day cards on scratch. He feels that students are becoming fluent in new technologies. He brings up a good point he brings up the […]
Art and Scratch
Reflect on your design thinking process. When I started this assignment I was confused as to where to begin. I was not completely comfortable with scratch so it was difficult. To begin I looked at the professor’s sample and followed her coding. This helped me understand how the coding worked specifically for creating a moving […]
First Scratch Game!
Reflect on your learning process, using the Design Thinking framework Since scratch is new to me, my first steps using the design thinking framework was to research and understand what scratch is. By writing the blog post on creative computing, I learned a lot about using scratch in the classroom and how using scratch can […]