Scratch stories with Udavi 8th graders
The 8th graders at Udavi had made stories on the theme ‘ if i had wings ‘ , they were wanting to depict their stories with scratch. The time offered was four English class hours on that week, and so the fun began… on the first day all the students had worked through an idea of what they wanted to depict with scratch programming, and when asked to pair up as a team and do their work, the usual boy-boy and girl -girl teams appeared. To make things more collaborative and interesting we mixed up the pairs into boy – girl.., asked on what aspects , criteria they were willing to do evaluate the work. They came up with the following
-Understandable
-Colourful
-Creative
-Beautiful
-Using Proper Language
-Interesting
-Teamwork
The class was just so amazing, all the children were totally focused on their work as a team there were no cross talks between teams.
The students used the Internet to get their characters and backgrounds. Gimp was introduced to them as and editing tool.
On the 2nd and 3rd day the children continued working with their script. They were also engaged in giving feedback with the mentioned aspects. Towards the end of the last assigned day all the projects were decided to be merged as to make a single video. The students amongst themselves coordinated and went along other teams that were still engaged in their scripting, and started to explain the process of merging files.