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New! Scratch Blog
Welcome to the new blog of the Scratch Team!I'm Andrés and I am a member of the Scratch Team. I have been working on the Scratch website from the beginning and I am very happy to see the growth of our...
View ArticleScratch Day
Last year we had a great Scratch@MIT conference. This year, we're doing something different: a worldwide network of events. There are already more than 20 events registered and number keeps growing....
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Recent traffic spike
Two recent articles, one in Wired and another one in The Register have brought a lot of traffic to our website. This is great as we love to see more people learn about Scratch!The bad news is that this...
View ArticleScratch Curator
Lots of members of the Scratch community have expressed a desire tochoose which projects get shown on the Scratch Homepage. So we'vecreated a new role called curator. While serving as curator,...
View ArticleRecent changes to our website
Based on some feedback and our own internal discussions, we have released some changes to our website that include:New sections on the front page. "My Friends' Latest Projects", Surprise Projects from...
View ArticleScratch 1.4 is now available!
We are happy to announce the release of Scratch 1.4 ! With this new version, you can:* ask users to input text from the keyboard (with new "ask" and "answer" blocks)* take photos directly from built-in...
View ArticleConsider donating to Scratch
We are pleased to provide Scratch free of charge. If you enjoy using Scratch, please consider making a donation to support Scratch. Donations of any size are appreciated.Your donation goes into our...
View ArticleScratch on Linux
For the past few months we have been working on improving the Ubuntu package of Scratch 1.4.1. We recently decided to release it using our own Personal Package Archive (PPA) on Launchpad so that people...
View ArticleScratch Companies
For a while, we have been interested in getting members of the Scratch community to help us document interesting phenomena that happens on our website. A few weeks ago I posted a message on the forums...
View ArticleScratch 2.0
Prepared by the Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab for the Digital Media and Learning CompetitionScratch & Share: Collaborating with Youth to Develop the Next Generation of Creative SoftwareIn...
View ArticleScratch on the iPhone
During the past week, several journalists and bloggers asked for the Scratch Team's reaction to Apple's decision not to allow a Scratch player app on the iPhone. Here is the statement that we gave to...
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Scratch wiki: by and for Scratchers
Here is a contributed post by one of the young members of the Scratch community leading the newly created Scratch wiki. A very exciting initiative!Scratch Wiki, a wiki about scratch made by scratchers,...
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Scratch 2.0 Progress Report
This is the first in a series of monthly Scratch 2.0 updates. Each update will highlight a few new features that we’re considering for Scratch 2.0.Flash-Based Scratch PlayerEver notice how some...
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Top 10 images in Scratch
There are more than 1.5 million projects today on the Scratch website containing more than 45 million images and sounds. Here is the list of the 10 most common images used. The number in parenthesis...
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Scratch 2.0: Create your own block
Flash Player improvementsThanks to everyone who reported bugs in the new flash-based Scratch project player! We’re now up to version 23 (the third version since the original release), and so far we’ve...
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Scratch 2.0: Moving to the Cloud
Scratch 2.0 will be “all in the cloud” -- meaning that the Scratch programming editor will become part of the Scratch website. We’re excited about this transition because it has a lot of great...
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Scratch 2.0: Friend or Follow?
When we developed the Scratch website, we decided to make friending another Scratcher non-symmetrical. That’s just a fancy way of saying you can add someone to your list of friends without them having...
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Scratch 2.0: What are you searching for?
Finding the project you’re looking for in a collection of 100 projects is pretty easy. But finding one project in 2,000,000 can be hard. When you add in all the other things you might want to search...
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Here's What 44 million Scratch Scripts Look Like
In preparation for our 2 million project mark celebration and as part of my research on remixing, I have been analyzing the use and reuse of components in the Scratch Online Community. For example, I...
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Scratch 2.0: Project Page and Project Editor
Many Scratchers have asked to see screenshots of what Scratch 2.0 looks like so far, so we thought we’d give a preview of two important pages: the project page, and the project editor. We’re still...
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Scratch 2.0 Update: New Name, New Mascot!
Edit: We hope you enjoyed this April Fools Joke! And don't worry, Scratch 2.0 will still be called Scratch. Cats were once very popular on the internets, but that time has passed. It's time to update...
View ArticleScratch 2.0 website development
Scratch 2.0 is a collaboration, with different people working on different parts of the same project. Most of the Scratch Team's time and effort is spent thinking carefully about how to make Scratch...
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Scratch 2.0: 4 new features
Hey all you Scratchers! This is Scimonster, Lightnin, silvershine, Lucario621, Hardmath123, and kayybee, members of the Scratch 2.0 alpha testing team. We're here today to answer some questions you...
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Meet the Scratch 2.0 Development Team
Scratch 2.0 is nearing the beta test phase, so it seems like a good time to introduce the small team of designers and developers who are working hard to finish it!Mitch ResnickI’m a professor at the...
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This blog is now retired....
As we get closer to the release of Scratch 2.0,we've decided to change the way we blog.So this blog is now officially retired!You can check out our new blog at:http://beta.scratch.mit.edu/newsScratch On!
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