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April 24, 2016
Had my classes hooked! Slightly arcane programming style only adds to the fun...
I have taken the plunge with this website and have bought into the Teacher Edition - this entitles you to unlimited student accounts for GBP100/year. A word of warning - setting up accounts is quite time-consuming as - at least when I tried - I had to refresh my (Chrome) browser after inputting each pupil name. Also the dashboard would benefit from a .csv upload function or similar. There is a dearth of material on the internet, save for a few YouTube videos to support student learning; especially if you're used to teaching Scratch! But in some ways this is part of the charm - you feel like you're working with something that's pretty tricky, but not too tricky, and that it's something just a little bit different. Not for the faint-of-heart, but great for stretching your students. They'll soon be teaching you....
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