Scratch

    Scratch is pretty cool.  It is a program created by MIT that allows anyone with a computer to create animated  videos that can then be posted online.  It comes with some pre-made avatars to use when creating your video.  You can them make the avatars move and talk to each other, interacting, and you can change the background.  I plan on using this program for my final project in Sustainable Development where I have to come up with and explain ten principles of Sustainable Development in some manner.  I think that using Scratch will be a really fun way to present the principles of SD as I see them.  I plan to post my scratch video online and link it to this and my SD blog so that others can see it.  I might actually make a blog specifically for this project that has the ten principles written out and explained with some sources so that anyone who wants to learn more easily can.  It is really cool to use a program like scratch that takes preset commands and translates them into a video so easily.  Knowing just a little bit of how computers work now makes me appreciate such seemingly simple programs.