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A few weeks ago Kelley Meister, an instructor at the the Science Museum of Minnesota, was teaching a 2 day animation workshop in Scratch. The project that she gave the kids was to animate a joke. The results varied from two sprites telling a joke back and forth to actually animating the narrative of the joke. Then, the Teen Tech Crew, borrowed the idea for their creative technology workshops in 2 libraries. In our library workshops, I found that giving this prompt (a joke) along with a bribe (you’ll get a laffy taffy for completing your animation) worked better than the traditional Scratch drop-ins we’ve been doing and far better than trying to do a more formal sit down workshop in a library setting. And I always love it when we have the chance to pull books off the library shelves to help/inspire our Scratch jokes.
So, take this and run with it. Submit your favorite jokes in Scratch here.
Logo created using the “Book” symbol by Charles Riccardi from The Noun Project collection, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0).
