I want to make something, which i can use again and again in storytelling to my kids.
As they are under the age of 3 to 5 I want it super simple to display and introduced a easier 4Ps.
I want to achieve my Sustainable Development Goals also… So I made the entire project from worksheets earlier used by them.
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it is a game which i made with my daughter Beyza 
we used Scracth for codding. for the design we used canva. it is a game which you learn turkish words.
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This is an ongoing project. The idea is to make sense of what community is in a clip.
The suggested constraints did not influence how I approached this activity because I have not met the boundaries while working on Scratch.
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So… I’ve been playing with the idea of doing some music as my something here 
…& I even managed to do something after all 
It’s partly inspired by the ideas in this course, and partly by the beautiful place I’m temporarily staying:
Here’s my workspace:
And here’s the music:
I think the main challenge, as I’ve often felt, was to do something relatively fast and don’t care too much about it being unpolished, unfinished, subject to revision… I’ve grown (at least musically) in a culture where asking for feedback is sort of unwelcomed, thought of as unprofessional, I guess. Sharing something you haven’t worked too much on is still a little bit scary, then. But hey, where better to do that than LCL 
The process was very much playful and spiral-like: even the musical idea is sort of done like that, in growing versions… With more time, I would probably re-think some stuff, polish, change/add some instruments, things like that. Hope you enjoy 
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@egle1 love this dino’s expression while riding along on the truck 
musical playful spiralling : ) simply love everything you do @frjurado ! 
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Thanks-thanks-thanks for the activity! It is really helpful and useful to understand myself.
During the week, I was thinking - about what project I want to do - I have started with my students a few Scratch projects about saving our country from the war. I’m going to start a campaign on Spreading Kindness… Now, all Ukrainians are thinking only about peace and stopping the war.
All projects are important, but I had to choose one - which is so deeply meaningful for me. And I want to share it with you now - this week I wrote a poem - at first for the last year! It followed from a story about very important feeling… So, let me tell the story in a few words.
My friend with her daughter had to leave their home in Kiev when the war started… They are very missing for their home. My friend is a designer and often expresses her feeling through pictures. She made a photo with a small paper house on the palm and wrote that she misses and afraids at the same time… afraids to lost their home…
I was wanting to help and support her… to share a ripple of kindness… and wrote a poem (as sometimes I am a writer :) And now I understood - the poem may be a start of a project that I want to make with my family and with our friends - to make a completed story about all that happened… and necessary - with happy end.
So, Im sharing a part of my friend’s photo and trying to translate my poem into English. Hoping you’ll understand what it means for us…
Let’s build a house -
Let’s make it of paper,
But there’ll be in it
All we need:
The open windows -
To breathe easily,
The tiny chimney -
To keep us warm.
Our dreams will sway
Near the attic window,
And from the open door
We’ll start our journey.
Let’s take with us
That weightless house -
And we’ll be together
always like at home!
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I plan to make a fun “ball drop” toy with my granddaughter. We will take toilet paper and paper towel tubes, cut a half circle out of the top of one end, and the bottom end of the other. We’ll paint them different colors, and attach Velcro hooks to the back. We’ll get a cloth from the fabric store that the Velcro hooks will easily attach to, but also let go fairly easily, so she can attach the tubes however she chooses. She can then explore dropping roundish rocks or balls down, and watch them roll down from one to the next, to the next. She can discover which configurations work, which don’t, what goes down it, what doesn’t, etc.
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Oops- we’ll attach the fabric to a frame, and either hang it low on a wall or cabinet, or make it free-standing, like the side of a box, so she can play with it outside.
If we use latex paint, and coat the inside well along with the outside, she can also pour water down it… one of her favorite activities.
I am writing a childlen’s book with some friendly and crazy insects as main characters, so I habe been sketching their physical characteristics and traits: one is them is this friendly, dizzy termite who is very lucky, solving his problems unintentionally, whenever he goes and whatever he does. He is the friend of a always worried and frightened fly, wandering in a world… And the rest I cannot tell. :)
I got this ideas after thinking on crazy characters, situations and some reflections this story could have. Letting the characters tell me about themselves, and I just then drew them. And that’s just the challenge: hearing them well. Knowing about them, knowing how they exactly look like, what they feel, think and say. Especially doing it with a child’s ear and soul, after working on an adult’s darker book: Concierto de duelos y redenciones – Víctor Laurel
Bit a bit more of time, I will be able to hear them well.
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Love your puppet! I think puppets are a great teaching tool- making them and using them in class! And the head magnet OMG, yes great solution!
Here is my very first scratch project for my first kiddo’s birthday. Wow this was so much fun, I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago!
How did you get the idea? What was a challenge you encountered? What would you do if you had more time? How did the suggested constraints influence how you approached the activity?
My constraints were no art supplies and time.
I’m now visiting the university here for a couple months in Curitiba, Brazil and I am in an apartment with nothing but the bare essentials-(like, one spoon, and one saucepan). I realized it is my girl’s birthday today, so that was the motivation. and inspiration. I decided to see if I could actually do something in Scratch. I think she will be pleased with her animated birthday card.I sent it to her in Whats App but I couldn’t get the sound to work in the app, so if I had more time, I would haves done more trouble shooting. I need to figure out how to get the interactive to reset to the original condition- can anyone help me? :-)
The interactive action: click on mr. hedgehog, the cake, the balloon and the S to get the full message :-)
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Thank you so much for sharing, @OLVL
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In the last few months I’ve been very intrigued by podcasts and I wanted to experiment using my voice as an expressive medium. I’m taking an online course on podcast production which unfortunately doesn’t involve any practical projects, only video lessons and quizzes… so I thought that I could use this week’s prompt to work on an audio project but I didn’t know what to do. So, as I often do when I’m stuck, I started looking at other people’s projects.
I saw that my friend Paco (@frjurado ) has composed a new song and I started to listen to it while I kept scrolling the forum. A few posts later I was struck by the heart-breaking story and the wonderful poem shared by my friend Olesia (@OLVL ) about the paper house made by her friend escaping the war in Ukraine with her daughter. It’s hard to imagine what it feels to leave your home and your loved ones behind, afraid of not being able to seeing them again. And still, in the darkest time, making together a tiny, fragile, and weightless project shows an incredible strength and a message of hope, that Olesia was able to recognize and wonderfully capture with her words.
As I was reading and thinking about Olesia’s poem, Paco’s beautiful music was still playing as a background, so I got the idea: I would read the poem with the music background. Little I knew that this project would engage me so much that I would spend more than 6 hours and that I would learn so much working on it!
My first thought was to translate Olesia’s poem so I could read it in Italian. I’ve never translated a poem before and I was afraid I wasn’t able to find the right words, but I tried anyway, and I’m very happy with the result: I realized how words in my native language are much more evocative and resonate much deeper with me than in English. So here is my translation:
Facciamo una casa -
Facciamola di carta,
Ma mettiamoci dentro
Tutto ciò che serve:
Le finestre aperte -
Per respirare bene,
Un piccolo comignolo -
Per tenerci caldi.
I nostri sogni dondoleranno
Vicino alla finestra dell’attico,
E dalla porta aperta
Inizieremo il nostro viaggio.
Portiamo con noi
Quella casa leggerissima -
E staremo insieme
Sempre come a casa!
Then I started recording my reading of both the english and italian version using my new semi-professional microphone, which I realized is very sensitive! And of course, in that precise moment, my roommate decided to start cooking and making all sorts of weird noises in the kitchen right next to my room! Following advice of my podcast class, I tried recording putting myself under a blanket, which didn’t stop the kitchen sounds, but it actually reduced the room noise and made my voice sound warmer. I read and recorded several times in both languages, every time changing something in my intonation and every time finding new meaning and nuances in Olesia’s poem, which I tried to interpret and express with my voice.
Then I started editing. In the past I’ve used Audacity for this type of work, but someone in the podcast class suggested to use Reaper, which was a totally new software for me, so I had to learn everything from scratch. I tried different approaches, first I tried to look for tutorials for specific features I needed (like normalizing the volume of a track, or removing the background noise) but I soon realized I needed to learn more basic stuff about the software (very high ceiling but definitely not low-floor), so I went through many more basic video tutorials (at 2x speed) and a lot of trial and error before getting somehow familiar with the interface.
Aside the technical aspects, it was very interesting to experiment with the more creative / expressive part of combining the words with the music. In my first attempt, reading in English, I used the music as the main canvas, and inserted the different parts of the poem where they sounded better. Later I added some sound effects (from Freesound) that added even more meaning (like the war sounds in the beginning) or texture (like the fire crackling or the birds outside my window). Here is the result, I hope it makes justice to the wonderful work it is inspired by.
It took me several hours to put that together, but I still wanted to use the recording in Italian, so I started another project. An easy way would have been to just replace the voice parts, keeping everything the same, but I wanted to experiment with a different approach. This time I used the voice as the main track, so kept it as it was, and instead I played with the music around it, making only some minor adjustments and using it as a background. I decided not to add sound effects and to purposefully keep it more minimal and raw. Here is what it sounds.
Writing these (very long, sorry!) reflections took me more than two hours, and here I am still writing at 4am. I realized this project could be good for all the activities in the next weeks of LCL: I made something (projects), building on my interests and for someone I love (passion), remixing the work of my friends (peers), tinkering and experimenting with the process (play). So, I’m finally done with the activities for this round! :))
I’m very grateful to be in this community where I’m constantly inspired to reflect and grow. A special shoutout and hug goes to you Olesia: thanks for being part of this group, I hope to be able to help you propagate your ripples of kindness always a little further. 
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Thanks. Your feedback is a good prompt to get me started on it. I have been shy to use puppets in my teaching outside of giving students time and materials to make their own puppets and working woth a puppeteer to have them learn to use puppets. I so loved it.
What a lovely process. I am inspired to give my work in progress paintings more space to hear their directions for what they will become.
Kneading bread is such a great way to build arm strength! My mom taight me the bread is kneaded enough when you pinch (not hard, just to get the feel) and rub it and it feels like your earlobe
This is such an awesome first project @rusty and a very Happy Birthday to Shelby : D
There’s so much interactivity and surprise 
To reset the sprites that are clicked on, you could add a ‘When Green Flag Clicked’ block to each, which runs some blocks to re-postion and reset all the action at the very start of the project : )
Especially love party-hedgehog’s hand-drawn party accessories and enthusiasm for cake! 
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Infinitely many thanks dear Carmello,
It is so inspiring! Yes, you used 4 P’ but more - you have made a new turn of a spiral - you inspired me and I immediately start to imagine the next turn - I want to develop the project based on your expressions and your ideas. It would be a great spreading kindness project.
It is amazing how LCL is inspiring! ( note I also was still thinking about some ideas at 4 a.m 
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