Editing Interpersonal Media (Winter 2019) (section)

=== March 5 (Tue): Educational Communities ===

Guest Lecture from [http://www.unmad.in/ Sayamindu Dasgupta] who is a professor at the Information School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

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'''Required Readings:'''

* Roque, R.; Dasgupta, S.; Costanza-Chock, S. Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community. Soc. Sci. 2016, 5, 55. 

[https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/5/4/55 Open Access]

* Brennan, K., Monroy‐Hernández, A., & Resnick, M. (2010). Making projects, making friends: Online community as catalyst for interactive media creation. New directions for youth development, 2010(128), 75-83.

[http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/NDYD-final.pdf PDF From MIT.edu]

* [Case] [https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu]

Visit the site. Read [https://scratch.mit.edu/about the about page], the [https://scratch.mit.edu/parents the information for parents], [https://scratch.mit.edu/educators and for educators]. Watch all the videos.  Spend some time exploring and run some programs (try to find at least one animation and at least one game). 

* [Case] [https://www.blockstud.io/ https://www.blockstud.io/]

For the case we're going to compare scratch to a different: Block Studio. This is an experimental project by Raoul, a PhD student at UW.  Click start and watch the three lessons. You don't have to actually make any games with Block Studio, but do learn how it works as much as you can.  After that [https://www.blockstud.io/bsp/bsp_games/ survey the published projects].