Scratch Animation Tutorial & Some Links

Here is a 14-minute video that will teach you (or refresh your memory on) how to animate a character in Scratch.


You will need to download the following:

• Scratch Program (There are PC and Mac versions of the software)
• Your First Animation (PDF)

Additional Scratch reading:

• Scratch Reference Guide (PDF) - A 23-page, thorough, well-illustrated guide that will tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about Scratch in an easy-to-digest format.
• FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions about Scratch
• Scratch Cards - Very short, illustrated guides on how to do some of the most common things in Scracth

All right! Let's start making some animations!

Sal & Kristina's Group

Sal & Kristina's Group's Project from Columbia College TEAM on Vimeo.

Grow your own tomatoes!

Wikispace about the reducing the carbon footprint by growing your own tomatoes.

http://goodtomatoe.wikispaces.com/

Don't be trashy

Don't be Trashy from Columbia College TEAM on Vimeo.

Convergence Neighborhoods, Grades 3-5

Convergence Neighborhoods Group 3-5 from Columbia College TEAM on Vimeo.

PS- This one has audio too, which was lost in translation. A lovely instrumental guitar melody-- great accompaniment!

Michael's Group Skyscraper Mosiac

Here is the Mosiac that we came up with that goes to our Video Thread. It contains everyone involved that needs to help make our skyscrapers green: Politicians, architecture companies, examples of new innovative green skyscrapers and of course Chicago people.

Chicago Green Skyscraper Team Voicethread

Day 1 Reflection

What strategies and structures that were provided to you today supported your learning?

Michael Fry: Television

Act I, Act II, Act III.
Beginning, Middle, End.
How you structure a story matters to its meaning.

Mitch Wenkus and Erika Valenciana: Film

We will be making a vox pop, which means “voice of the people.” We will learn the 5 basic shot sizes: establishing, long, wide, medium, and close up shot. Then we will be interviewing on the street and compiling the footage into a short video. Finally, we will review our footage together.

Suzanne McBride: Journalism

Wait, Wait, DO tell me! Learn interviewing techniques that will get students to open up. Brainstorm questions that will get even the most quiet student talking. We'll also practice listening and writing skills and work with audio recorders to get sound bites.

Sal Barry: Interactive Arts/ Media (Game, Web, Animation, etc)

Scratch is a free, easy-to-use software used for making games and animations. In this workshop, participants will learn how to make a simple interactive game. No programming or art skills are needed – just your imagination. We will also discuss potential uses for this in the classroom. This workshop requires you to have your own computer (PC or Mac).

Anu Rana: Film

Capture the Essence: This exercise is about the choices we make when we pick up a camera – still or video. What makes for an interesting picture and how do you capture the essence of a location? The goal is to understand the different choices we have and to make those choices before we take a picture.

Kristina Gosh: Photo

Participants will be guided through the basics of photo composition (shot size, angles, etc) and some of the key factors that come into play for rich storytelling (time, object, place/location, people/characters). Using this knowledge participants will create a short story utilizing self-created image and text. Photos will be put into a sequence using PowerPoint as a platform. Utilizing stylized fonts and slide transitions, stories will be transformed into short "silent movies" and will be exported using quicktime for web streaming

Welcome, Blogger!

Allow me to be the first to officially welcome you as an author of the Convergence Blog! Your author status allows you to post to the blog and also comment on the posts of others.

Please post a comment below sharing what you hope to get out of this conference. Just click on the word "comments" and go crazy!

Convergence Blogging

This blog is a reflective space: a space for sharing, forming, and challenging ideas.

Throughout the three days, we will be asking you to share your thoughts here. We also want to you respond to the posts of your colleagues, help find answers to questions posed, add your own experience to the mix, and tell your own stories.

The group pages will house your "final" projects, and the entire blog will be an archive of our process and the work we do together and also a platform for your future endeavors.