Brittnay's Blog for "The Digital Past"

I watched the video about “Scratch” before I read the short “how-to” reading. Even though the video was only 2 minutes and 40 seconds long, I had many mixed feelings about the program. At first when the video was describing what scratch was (within the first 30 seconds to a minute), even though it looked easy even to use and filled with color to signify that a child could use it, all I could think about was how much I didn’t really like programming stuff on the computer and how I wasn’t into graphics or editing or anything of the sort. I used be in a high school class where we used PhotoShop almost every class, and though I thought I would like it, that ended up as not the case. The video was saying basically how easy it was to create your own animated clip for projects and hwo fun it was, but again I kept thinking of the word “project” and kept thinking back to how I wasn’t into the whole editing or animating thing on the computer.

However, within the last minute of the video, when it actually showed the viewer the steps of how to make a picture and have it animated and make noises and move, etc, that’s when I started to think it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. The tools that were there to animate the objects were simple enough to use and to manipulate, so I started thinking that this would probably be a fun, yet different way to presentation a project, like our final project, if used correctly! So I started out not very open to the “Scratch” idea, but I think once I try it out, it’ll be more than okay.