Recent Projects in Journalism projects

BHGuessingGame1

Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a son of slaves who became the second African American to earn a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. At that time, history books did not include contributions made by Africans and people of African descent. To fix this problem, Woodson founded the organization known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915. He began publishing books, magazines and journals about black history. In February, 1926, Woodson started Negro History Week to encourage schools to teach students about this neglected subject. He chose February because of the birthdays of two men who played key roles in ending slavery in the United States: Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (February 14). In 1975, the United States Congress decided that the entire month of February would be known as Black History Month.

Instructional Focus Words

An interactive way for students to strengthen their understanding of many instructional "focus words". These are words that often appear on standardized tests yet, might not be words that teachers or students use with regularity while building understanding of the concepts of a subject.

Weather report

My notes: On the morning of June 9, 2009, thunderstorms blanketed the northeastern United States. When I saw Facebook and Twitter status messages reporting on the storms as they moved up the coast in real time, I got the idea to create this story. If Scratch had the ability to work with a database and mapping software, it would be possible to aautomatically pull Twitter status messages into the story and place them on the map automatically using geotagging. Still, this demo illustrates the concept I have in mind. Thanks to the creator of the great rain simulator that this project is based on as well. Original notes: YOU MUST DOWNLOAD IT FOR BETHER PREFORMANCE! Ok now,this is version 3,but i didnt place any switch's to change betwin ambience,becouse i dont have any rain or anything else for that matter! This simulation is originally made by me "mixa205" The good thing is that i did this completly on my own... please if you love this death hunting cold rain press i love it! This is the most realistic simulation! Download it for your projects,.... Tell your friends about this MADE: i made pics with scratch's paint program,and i added a little extra like "fisheye and color....background whit all of that and brightest...." Rain are random,infact all of that is random XD.... Thanx for viewing my project,i hope i have enought time to look at yours

Word Shooter

This is an adaptation of Macca's Space Shooter project. HOW TO PLAY: Up/Down/Left/Right = Direction Arrows Space = Shoot Shoot the misspelled words while trying to avoid their lasers. Eventually, Bill Gates will become annoyed (for reasons I'm unsure of atm) and begin to attack. Defeat Bill Gates to save the world!

Path of an Invader

This is my second Scratch project that explores ways of telling stories, or journalism, through interactivity. As the credits say, this project was inspired by a real story, but the facts are not accurate. This is purely for example purposes. If any of you have projects that deal with novel ways of communicating facts or journalism, let us know!

Money Counts! Part 1!!

12 Sprites 55 Scripts

CRTLC

This is a presentation for the Culturally Responsive Teaching Learning and Counseling Symposium, January 24, 2009 at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs College of Education. More information about the research described here is at http://www.tcnj.edu/~ijims. Two notes on operating the slideshow: After the opening sequence, there are pictures of the program participants. When those pictures stop cycling, press the space bar to reveal the text slides. To advance the text slides, click on them.

Profit maximising monopolist

Click the green flag to begin! This animation shows how a monopolist (monopoly firm) maximises profits by setting MR=MC. This example shows a case of supernormal profit.

solar_house_scratch_board

this house responds to changes in the environment that a Scratch Board can sense. To learn more about the scratch sensor board, look it up on the support page, or visit this link: http://scratch.wik.is/Support/Sensor_Boards

blogherscratch

This is a report on the Scratch@MIT conference for BlogHer.com. Most of the images are from the Scratch conference website, except for the picture of me, which was taken by Steven Thomas.

Scratch at MIT

I was one of the lucky Scratch users who got to attend the conference yesterday. But since not everyone gets to attend, I thought it would be nice to share a little bit about what I saw there. That way you can all learn some new things from the conference!

selma march

This is based on a project I did for my social studies class. Use right and left arrow keys to scroll through slides. Some parts don't work well on the website - they do work when downloaded.

News Sense

From Journogeek: Thanks to Ironman for working to debug this project! From Ironman: This is an updated version of the News Sense project developed by Journogeek. Almost everything here was done by her, I merely attempted to fix some of the initial bugs. Leave a comment for me if it works. If you have comments about the project itself, you might want to leave those for Journogeek.

Interviewing how-to

This is a basic how to for doing journalistic interviews. There are a few glitches in it, and I want to make it more interactive, but the basic ideas are there.

Air Quality Game

Here is another one of my journalism-based projects. My goal with this one was to explore ways to report the results of air quality tests. Our students will be testing the air quality in a few weeks, and this is just one example of how they could convey the data they collect without resorting to boring charts or graphs. Note that this is not based on any actual data or research, this is merely an example to inspire the students, and the greater Scratch community as well.