Mr I's Digital Domain

 My 6th grade computer class just finished programming their own Scratch games. We celebrated by having an end-of-unit ScratchFest; everyone got to play others' games, with a little background music of Jimi Hendrix (you can guess that I chose the tunes!).

I asked them, via the Moodle Journal feature, to reflect on what they learned, what they liked, challenges and obstacles, and how they overcame them. Following is a (lightly edited) series of comments In Their Own Words. I'm really proud of these guys!

It's that time of year again, and I have a new class of fresh-faced 6th graders in my computer class. We meet 3 times a week for a trimester, then I get the next set of students.

Last week we started Scratch. If you're not familiar with Scratch, it's a programming environment built on Squeak from the Lifelong Kindergarten lab at MIT. Actually, I don't even tell the students that they're programming. All they know is that it's fun!