While doing some research for my teaching I discovered an interesting on-line community of Scratch-ers. It exists at the
Scratch website and the members are an informal group of young people who share their animated productions made with Scratch. It is free to join -- just provide basic information and submit your application. Scratch is a simple to use programming software developed by
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to teach young people (K-12) the fundamentals of computer programming. Kids from all over the world make art, stories, games, and music with Scratch and then upload them onto the Projects site. You can watch other members' videos and then comment on them, and you can also download other projects and then "remix" or change them. I noticed that many Scratchers (people who create with Scratch) use characters from other members' videos in their own. SO they are really creating this Scratch universe - or virtual community. The website has "Featured" projects and the most popular -- so it seems the community is also a little competitive too.
I was interested in this type of community because I am looking for a program to be able to make my own video games to use in my English classes. I am not sure this is the place for me, so I will keep looking for more video game-making communities.
It looks like a lot of fun making your own animations and video games -- if you are interested in learning more about basic programming through making simple animation, art, music, and video games, check it out at:
www.scratch.mit.edu
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