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Chapter 4 resources

• The teachers who co-wrote this author generously shared examples of slides from their Google Slides presentation, along with a detailed overview of their weekly program, which includes some differentiation strategies for students with diverse learning needs. Download the PDF here.
• Teach students how to draw backgrounds and character designs in Scratch using the following videos (also contained on the Coding Animated Narratives Hub https://sites.google.com/mq.edu.au/can/home) and the teacher’s own modelled examples.
• Basic character designer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3oCdNIeU_8
• Basic backdrops video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4SldacxG4 

Scratch narratives featured in the book

• Anger’s day off – link withheld for student anonymity
• Anyone can be a hero - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/864744300
• Avery’s challenge - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/694780799/
• Believe it and you can achieve it – link withheld for student anonymity
• Can I come in? - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23367579/
• Don’t be careless – link withheld for student anonymity
• Don’t judge a book by its cover - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/709365184
• Finding Indi’s voice - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/427940940/
• Hair-do-you-do? - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/533770235/
• Help needed - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/666741961
• I am proud - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/862273024
• Inside out 2 – link withheld for student anonymity
• John’s bad choice – link withheld for student anonymity
• Kat and Chloe - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/860319260/
• Kumala - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/720726288
• Like, follow, comment - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/702380436/
• Monet vs media - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/533769413/
• Pico and Giga walking and talking - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/887333659/
• Protect the environment - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/720194591/
• Story (2) - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/716358341/
• The holiday - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/763703043/
• The rise of King John of England - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/726323047/

Professional short films

• A Joy story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lo-8UWhVcg
• Bao - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x87mwob
• For the birds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYTrIcn4rjg
• Hair love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28
• Life of a toilet roll - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S1uirjeCR0
• Mr Indifferent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGNj-xrgvY
• Piper - https://vimeo.com/341077341
• The crunch bird - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imFOrbIwV04
• The final kick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJl9KLFolBQ
• The power of words - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphSUGNHIu4
• Ticket without a seat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2kL_kbosg

Other links

• Coding Animated Narratives hub - https://sites.google.com/mq.edu.au/can/home
• Coding Stories – Coding Animated Narratives website - https://codingstories.com.au/
• Filmmaker - https://filmmaker.moviestorm.co.uk/
• How to make a story in Scratch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3oCdNIeU_8
• How to draw backdrops in Scratch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4SldacxG4
• Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/
• Scratch 2021 annual report - https://scratch.mit.edu/annual-report
• Scratch tutorial - https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/media/6666/scratch-3-tutorial.pdf
• Storyboard That - storyboardthat.com
• Harvard online short course CS50’s introduction to programming with Scratch – https://cs50.harvard.edu/scratch/2021/