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Joe Beasley

Join Joe Beasley at RVA ScratchEd Meetup

  • Wed Jan 29
    4:45 PM ‐ 6:45 PM
  • VPM
    23 Sesame St, Richmond, VA
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by Richmond Scratch Educator Meetup

Come explore how you can add creative coding to your teaching toolkit! We will be exploring Scratch and Scratch Jr along with all of their extensions! We will be providing FREE Dinner with our FUN, FREE PD! RVA ScratchEd is about creating a community of educators who want to igni…

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Come explore how you can add creative coding to your teaching toolkit! We will be exploring Scratch and Scratch Jr along with all of their extensions!

We will be providing FREE Dinner with our FUN, FREE PD!

RVA ScratchEd is about creating a community of educators who want to ignite their curiosity for creative coding while also encouraging others to share and support the work they've done in their classrooms. Scratch is an easy tool that can be incorporated into any K-12 subject or lesson. These meetups are completely free and open to all educators. No Scratch coding experience needed! This a great PD for any educator and participants will receive PD points for each Meetup.RVA Scratch Ed Meetups in partnership with PBS.

What's a Scratch Educator Meetup?

Scratch: a free tool (http://www.scratch.mit.edu/) for exploring computational creativity by programming interactive media (like stories, games, animations, and simulations) and sharing those creations with others online, used by millions of people all around the world.

Scratch Educator: a teacher who wants to support computational creativity in the classroom and beyond, helping learners—from elementary school to high school, across curricular areas and settings—imagine, program, and share with Scratch

Scratch Educator Meetup: a gathering of Scratch Educators who want to learn with and from each other, sharing their ideas and strategies for supporting computational creativity in all its forms

What will we be doing at the meetup?

If you're new to the meetup format, here's what they are and how they work. Meetups are informal gatherings for educators who work with (or are interested in working with) Scratch. The meetups are organized into three parts:

1. We start with networking over light refreshments, getting to know fellow attendees and sharing what people want to explore during the meetup.

2. We collaboratively decide how to structure our learning and then form small groups based on our different interests. Maybe you want to have a discussion about classroom strategies or get more practice with Scratch—or something else entirely. Feel free to move between groups if the session that you're in isn't working for you.

3. We gather as a whole group for group sharing. You might pose a question to discuss with the group, or share something from your classroom. This is a great time to inspire and be inspired.

What should I bring?

Curiosity. And a laptop that supports Flash will be helpful for the hands-on activities.

Anything I should know before coming to the meetup?

These are completely optional, but are excellent resources to learn more about using Scratch with learners:

• If you're new to Scratch, you can check it out at http://scratch.mit.edu (http://scratch.mit.edu/)

• Join the ScratchEd Website (http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/) and browse through hundreds of resources!

• Look over the Creative Computing Curriculum Guide (http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/). It's an amazing resources.

We look forward to meeting up with you!

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