Eng:Video Tutorials (1.4)

Video Tutorials are videos that show how to use Scratch, and how to use different blocks. The Video Tutorials is split up into 5 tutorials, Rainbow Fish, Whirling Butterfly, Beat It, Dancing Queen, and Haunted Scratch.

Rainbow Fish

 * Learn to change the color of your sprite.

In this tutorial, it teaches you how to change the color of your sprite, featuring these blocks: when [space v] key pressed change [color v] effect by (25) This video also teaches you how to add a new sprite into Scratch, and delete the existing sprite.

Whirling Butterfly

 * Learn to change your sprite’s graphic effects by moving your mouse.

Scratchers are taught, in this tutorial, to change a sprite's effect. In this video tutorial, they use the whirl and the color effect. The blocks used are the following:

when green flag clicked forever change [whirl v] effect by (mouse x)   change [color v] effect by (mouse y) end

Beat It

 * Learn to move your sprite to a drum beat.

In this Scratch video tutorial it is learnt how to make a sprite move following a drum beat. Scratchers need to use these blocks in order to make the project work:

when green flag clicked forever move (10) steps play drum (48) for (0.2) beats move (-10) steps play drum (56) for (0.2) beats end At the end of the tutorial, it is encouraged to play around with the code to make their own project, following a beat.

Dancing Queen

 * Learn to import a new background, animate your sprite and create a music loop.

The Scratchers following this tutorial learn how to import a background for their project, add costumes to their sprites and import a music loop. The scripts they have to use to be able to make a sprite dance while playing music are these:

when green flag clicked forever next costume wait (0.3) secs end when green flag clicked forever play sound [hiphop] until done end

Haunted Scratch

 * Learn to add your own background and create a dialog for a story

The last Scratch video tutorial teaches Scratchers to add their own background to a project and use the say/think blocks to make an interactive story. The blocks featured in the video are the following: when green flag clicked say [Wanna hear a scary story?] for (3) secs wait (3) secs say [Kevin-this will really scare you!] for (3) secs when green flag clicked wait (1) secs say [Yes!] for (2) secs wait (1) secs think [How did he know my name?] for (2) secs