Festival2012/Submit/Scratch and Thimble

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Scratch + Thimble: Create webpages with Interactive Games and Animations

  • Title of session: Scratch + Thimble: Create webpages with interactive games and animations
  • Your name and affiliation: Members of MIT Scratch Team, MIT Media Lab (organizer: Champika Fernando)
  • Session format: Learning Lab

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Scratch 2.0 allows you to create interactive games and animations while Thimble makes it incredibly easy to create and host your own webpage. Together they allow you to build rich web experiences right within your browser. Participants will learn how to use these applications together to easily create and host their own webpages with games and animations.

How do you see that working?

The first part of this session will look at example projects created in Scratch and example websites created with Thimble. We’ll then walk participants through the creation of a simple website in Thimble and a simple project in Scratch and how to combine the two.

In the second part of this session participants will brainstorm ideas and then create their own interactive website with support from the facilitators. Possible project ideas include a simple game, a web poll, or a tutorial site.

The third part will involve a show and tell and a group discussion around challenges and possibilities.

How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?

The organization of the session will remain the same, regardless of the number of participants. There will be enough MIT Scratch Team members at the event to provide support for even a large group. The size of the group will determine whether we show & tell all projects or a selection.

How long within your session before someone else can teach this?

By the end of this session participants will be able to create a simple interactive webpage and teach others how to as well.

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

We hope that participants will be able to use what they’ve learned to continue to create their own interactive webpages and that they will share these tools and knowledge with others.

Note: Scratch 2.0 is still in development. We expect to share a beta prototype at the festival, and to launch Scratch 2.0 later in the year.

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