iRLO: Get to the space station captain!

Once it is all said and done, the iRLO project was a great experience.  I was extremely happy with how it turned out and was suprised as to how easy it actually was, once I got going.  On that note, I put in A LOT of effort into this project.  I had some trouble early on with constructing this project and had trouble using Scratch.  It took me about 2 hours of fooling around with Scratch to finally figure out what and how I could use the tools that it had to provide.  The help videos were big to me.  I'd like to add that even before I started using Scratch, I had made an outline or "script" for my iRLO and tried very hard to make sure that it would meet my choosen core concept.  With designing this, I have a great appreciation of the Scratch program and how powerful this tool can be in the classroom.  I find that this could be a huge activity to introduce into your classroom.  I could make multiples of these covering all types of subjects and allow students to use them for extra practice or to "play" with them if they had finished their school work early.  Using this program has made me realize how easy it is to use technology in your classroom and also, how amazing it is to allow students to learn while giving them instant feedback.