{"id":1299,"date":"2017-07-21T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:39:16","slug":"the-scratch-conference-of-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/2017\/07\/21\/the-scratch-conference-of-bordeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scratch conference of Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I participated in this conference by a talk and a workshop. It was a big opportunity to meet people from around the world. I am a user of Scratch since the end of 2012. I was not only in love with the tool,\u00a0 but also with philosophy behind and the community. Because of this engagement, I know by photos a lot of people of the Scratch community. These people influenced directly or indirectly the path I took during the last years.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Mitch Resnick: <\/b><\/i><\/span>One of most important moments for me was meeting Mitch Resnick in person. I admire him so much. It is crazy to imagine that this person created some thing that changed really the world. Of course, a software like scratch was a result of generations of work but his touch was so big on the tool. I discovered that Scratch is not a unique family, but a big family with big differences with members.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Dan Garcia: I was hoping to him in persons and I made it … and I was not disappointed! When I started promoting coding in Tunisia, a lot of people did not know about Scratch at that time. Some of them saw the software like Flash, some other think it is just a nice tool for kids but they don’t see the power behind the blocs programming. The code.org movement made a video <\/a>with him where he shows his experience teaching programming to students in the university of Berkeley with a software called Snap<\/a>! One of the sentences I love in the video: We want people to have an exciting and engaging experience with programming … And what he said was not an ordinary sentence but it was really a way of doing that they wanted to implement by the tool snap and by a course that they made called: The beauty and joy <\/a>of programming.
\nI finally met some friends for real. I know them thanks to the Scratch community and we followed a scratch online MOOC called CCOW. These people influenced me so much. Kim, the Korean is very active in his country and organized several time a Scratch day. I was following his work and it was a motivation to make a Scratch day in Tunisia. Heloeza from Brazil is also active in his country and doing a lot of nice things with kids and with little budget. Their works send a lot of positive energy.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Clare is the creator of a huge network of coding clubs called Code Club World<\/a>. She started her movement before the code.org by connecting teacher in primary school and professionals with programming background. I was following her work since the beginning and translated almost half of the first curriculum into French. At that time, it was the best resources available to teach Scratch.
\n<\/p>\n

In the last day of the conference, a panel was opened for African participants to show what they were doing. In my presentation, I talked about how the slogan of Scratch Imagine-Program-Share influenced my path and the way I am doing.
\nPhoto of Julie Mbaye Yassiban<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I participated in this conference by a talk and a workshop. It was a big opportunity to meet people from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easycoding.tn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}