EcoTales

EcoTales Project

This project aims to unleash the potential of youth in using the lowest common denominator – a smart phone combined with coding using OctoStudio.

Octostudio

• OctoStudio Reference Guide
  Useful PDF Guide

• Explore Your World with OctoStudio
  This activity is designed to guide educators to encourage learners to make observations about animals and create animated projects to share their discoveries. The activity invites learners to create with OctoStudio, a free creative coding app. This learning resource is co-developed between National Geographic Society and the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

• OctoStudio and Patterns
  oin us in playing with patterns! We’re exploring different ways of making our own patterns and noticing patterns in the world by tinkering with code. The Tinkering Studio is a Key Collaborator with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, creators of a free coding application for mobile devices called OctoStudio. The ideas on this page all use this application.

Scratch

• Scratch Junior Reference Guide
• Scratch Junior Reference Guide – Harvard