'Why don't you...?' Futurelab conference

I'm enjoying this conference in London. So far the best bit has been Eric Rosenbaum's workshop on playful programming with Scratch which was video conferenced from an MIT lab. in Boston. It's a fantastic - well how it is described is crucial - that's why I hesitate. You could call it a simple programming language for children. Fine, it is indeed in some ways like Flash the animation programme. But it is very visual and I was very excited in that I thought it could be equally attractive to girls who have been using PAINT for example.

I agree with Mary we need pix - I would love to show you the fish swimming backwards and forwards - OK rather bumpily and it kept turning upside down! that I produced fairly quickly - with the programme. My excuse is I am still at the conference on a cyber cafe type machine so cannot download or upload my images. There would probably be a way round it if I were more resourceful! Take a look at the scratch website perhaps through following the link.

Julia