John Lynch

Every fall, some parents at my kids' school make a funhouse. This year, while we miss splatter painting together, we still wanted to build something to share. Presenting 'Things That Glow Bump in the Night,' built with love, assembled in @scratch: scratch.mit.edu/projects/43701…

@PinkyPepper_ @rrrrrok_ Me too!

@rrrrrok_ @Mittensbrother Okay, you found this old tweet via my blog... Now I understand 😄 Good luck with your project! If you would like to share what you and your 9yo are making, I would be happy to take a look at it.

In my #microbit games players often score points when a conductive ball closes a circuit between P1 and GND. If it stays closed more than 1 second, you can't use On pin pressed block. I like this new purple block made by the Scratcher njdavison. You too? makecode.microbit.org/_1mw08mLejM3J

@PinkyPepper_ Very cool! I think I've used the Scratch 'wait until' block with all my homemade switch designs. It's super useful for 'anti-bounce' applications, and easy to teach.

Hi @Mittensbrother, do you think the purple block in the tweet above is helpful for students when making toss games? A kind Scratcher made it for me and I think it's easier to understand than my earlier solution using "while P1 is pressed, do pause 20 ms". Curious what you think.

The Neutral Ground documentary by @gocjhunt is beautiful, and it is streaming free on PBS pbs.org/pov/watch/neut…

@PinkyPepper_ @jrflorentine @CodeJoyEdu Balance board remote control would be awesome!

@jrflorentine @CodeJoyEdu Cool 😁 @Mittensbrother gave us the idea to make a balance board with a micro:bit underneath it for Scratch games. Might be cool to combine that with these robots so they follow your moves with the balance board. To see it in action, check out this video youtu.be/44Xo76BbqiI?t=…

I took the class yesterday and had a blast! Lots of laughter, learning and of course, exercise. Thank you @CodeJoyEdu for a fun and educational evening!

@gravescolleen @MrsJHasBooks Ragnarok is hilarious, though.

@gravescolleen @MrsJHasBooks They can do you blood and superpowers without the rhetoric (Avengers 1), and they can do you blood and rhetoric without the superpowers (Agents of Shield), but they can't give you powers and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Okay, we are gonna watch the Marvel movies- should we go by release date or chronological order?

Monopoly is a pretty game that's horrible to play with younger kids. Modified rules for quarantine: 1) $1, $10 and $100 bills only #placevalue 2) Earn rent from your properties when passing GO. Landing on owned spaces is free. 3) $550 starting cash, first player to $1000 wins

@teerahater @abramskids 🍾 Congrats! My kids are ready to read about adults hating on what is clearly a boat.

I finally had another good idea! so glad @abramskids thought so, too :)

For anyone interested in making a funhouse in @Scratch, I made a short tutorial for creating animated sprites with homemade puppets. scratch.mit.edu/projects/44031…

Huge props to the builders and photographers! This is the largest Scratch project I've ever cut by a country mile, so it needs a minute to load. I recommend grabbing some little ones and building a blanket fort around the computer while you wait.

Every fall, some parents at my kids' school make a funhouse. This year, while we miss splatter painting together, we still wanted to build something to share. Presenting 'Things That Glow Bump in the Night,' built with love, assembled in @scratch: scratch.mit.edu/projects/43701…

@teerahater I like this metaphor. It captures the anxiety, yes, but also the fact that we eventually get dressed every day anyway. Also, I have to go all the way back to 2nd grade to find my rad outfits.

Update my agent is in college and thinks my 8th grade outfit was cool and now I'm in 11th grade and (as expected) see that my 10th grade outfit was boring (what a normie!). I'm now rushing to goodwill to get the coolest bits of my original outfit back :/

With the kiddos, write penpals a hidden message with a blacklight (cheapo LED ones work fine) and a glue stick that fluoresce in UV light (most do). P.S. what else glows in the house?

Stressed about school in fall 2020? These students have ideas to help make it work:

@zackboston Lol, that's a pretty sweet rig! Pretty sure the game they're playing is CLOP, a fascinating bit of game design by @bfod

Gratitude and anxiety about parenting my kids during the quarantine, spilling over into my @Scratch project for #GettingUnstuck and presented as flotsam on a beach. Pearls and Seaweed: scratch.mit.edu/projects/41201…

Another @Scratch project for #GettingUnstuck, this one about animating with variables instead of costumes. Blob is Shy: scratch.mit.edu/projects/41176…

Finally got around to making something for #GettingUnstuck 2020! Here's my family's @scratch project for Day 4: Broadcast Blocks: The Kinda Spooky House scratch.mit.edu/projects/39710…

@MonsieurHogie1 Go for it! Basic instructions on how I made this one are linked in the project

Def doing this for the fun of it!! #MakeOn #makerED #edtech #ScratchAtHome #Scratch #stopmotion

@mrmckaycomp I'm a big fan of using @scratch for quick and dirty stop motion scratch.mit.edu/projects/38067…

Best stop-motion app? Got a friend's kids (P6/7) looking to make a Lego animation. I've looked up some links, but any personal recommendations?