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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...

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Scratch 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...

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Scratch 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,...

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Recent 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...

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Scratch 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...

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Consider 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...

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Scratch 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...

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Scratch 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...

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Scratch 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...

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Scratch 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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