Welcome to Week 2 of Creative Computing!

[Karen]

Hi everyone,

Here are some of the things that you might do in Week 2 of the Creative Computing Online Workshop:

• Reflect on Week 1 and prepare for Week 2 in the weekly overview.
• Participate in the workshop forums.
• Dive into animation through the hands-on Scratch activities.
• Participate in live office hours (Tuesday, June 11 at 5pm or Friday, June 14 at 9am, Eastern Time, UTC -4).
• Submit your design notebook -- don't forget to make sure that it's accessible by others!
• Review someone else's design notebook.

Sincerely,
Karen -- on behalf of the Creative Computing Facilitation Team

[Robin Ricketts]

HI, Karen, I thoroughly enjoyed the activities and discussions in week 1.  I have a question about the notebook review.  It appears that no one reviewed my notebook.  Do I just let it go and move on?  Thanks.  Robin

[Robin Ricketts]

Oh, second question - July 13th.  Have you posted any information about what that day will involve and cost?  I need to make a decision about whether or not to book a flight to Boston.  Thanks, again.  Robin

[Karen Vitek]

I posted a comment on the person's Scratch project page to let them know I did a review of their project. I'm just not sure of how they can access it. 

[Alan Yorinks]

After leaving a comment, the user is notified when they log into Scratch. There will be an indicator next to the envelope icon at the top of the screen. Also, if they go to "My Stuff" and filter on shared projects, there is a nice summary of comments, likes, follows, etc.

[michelle amato]

Karen,
Please help!
I am the first to admit that I always a little slow getting out of the gate, but i can not for the life of me figure out how to navigate this group. I introduced myself. I don't know where to find the assignment, or the template for the design notebook. I strated to try composer on my iPad, but that is proving to be a new challenge as well. I have a scratch project that I worked on over the week, but I am not even sure if it is aligned with the requirements. Please help me get oriented. I am spending too much time trying to figure the nature of the group out.

Thanks,
Michelle

[Karen]

Hi Michelle,

Here's a link to the week 1 activities (which are listed in the left side bar, as shown below): https://creative-computing.appspot.com/unit?unit=1

You might want to start with the Week 1 "Step-by-Step" activity, as an initial experience.

Here's a link to the week 2 activities (which are also listed in the left side bar, as shown below): https://creative-computing.appspot.com/unit?unit=11

Does that help? Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Sincerely,

K

[Ingrid Gustafson (CCOW Facilitator)]

Hi Robin,

I'm glad you had a positive experience for the first week! If you haven't gotten a review, perhaps that person hasn't gotten to it yet. If you'd still like feedback, a lot of workshop participants have been sharing their notebook out on the Google+ community to receive feedback. You can also post the link in the newly created Design Notebook forum.

Ingrid