Exciting news from Kodu! Last week, they released a new version, "Kodu Touch", that allows you to program your game for use on a touch screen device. It includes all the other tried and true features, as well, adds some new "sea themed" characters, in "under sea", which contains new objects, such as starfish and lily pad, a new bot, Octopus (open the character folder just under the "Apple"), and "ink cloud" in the character folder next to "Tree". Read here for a full summary of this new release.

I finally got around to making an intro user video using Scratch and I'm looking forward to seeing Scratch in action when I visit the new Hollymead Elementary Coder Dojo lab mid-April!