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#1 2009-05-29 11:23:26

Lightnin
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Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Interested in applying to be a Scratch curator?

We choose curators that represent the diversity of the Scratch Community - girls, boys, gamers, storytellers, animators - Scratchers of all kinds! We especially like to choose Scratchers who have been helpful and contributing members of the Scratch community.

When applying to be curator, it's good to give some thought to the kind of projects you'd like to show. "Cool projects that most people have never seen!" is a nice idea, but it doesn't really give us a good sense of what you like and why. We want to know what makes a project interesting to you.

Try viewing the projects in your favorites, and see if you can find a theme that describes them. Talk about that theme in your post on this thread, and consider providing a few links to good examples of that theme.

For example, I really like projects that use sound input from the microphone to draw interesting designs on the screen. Here's an example of one that I recently added to my favorites: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/MitFan/874786

Scratch On!

p.s. Want to read more about the curator role, including tips on how to make a good application? Check out kayybee's post: "Can I become the curator? and other curator questions."

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#2 2009-05-29 11:49:20

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Interesting... Will there be a new row or just use the Featured row?

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#3 2009-05-29 11:57:21

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to be a curator if possible.


Hi, I am Archmage coder extraordinaire. I do Scratch,pascal,java,php,html, AS2 and AS3. Leave me a message if you want coding advice. Also check out my personal website, lots of good stuff about web development, Flash, and Scratch (v1 and v2) !

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#4 2009-05-29 12:13:56

jasb
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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to be one too. I love platformers, but games with great ideas in them are cool too.

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#5 2009-05-29 12:30:32

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Awesome.  smile  I totally support this idea.  smile


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#6 2009-05-29 12:52:50

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Magnie wrote:

Interesting... Will there be a new row or just use the Featured row?

It'll be a whole new row, and will be titled "Projects curated by [curator's Name]."


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#7 2009-05-29 13:22:06

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would love to be  a curator if possible

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#8 2009-05-29 13:55:57

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I think that this is a brilliant idea. I would love to have this oppurtunity. I would choose projects that not many people had seen, with exceptional graphics and programming


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#9 2009-05-29 15:36:36

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would enjoy doing this. Will the position be permanent or will there be a few every month or so?

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#10 2009-05-29 15:46:22

gettysburg11
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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

That would be awesome! I want to do it, please! I might pick some very good projects that not many people know about because the person isn't famous.

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#11 2009-05-29 17:16:00

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I wouldn't mind being a curator...
Sounds cool!

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#12 2009-05-29 17:36:24

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to be one. I love all of the games that make you say "Whoa." Like ones that take forever to make and are GREAT quality. And they wouldn't all be from people we all know, like archmage, or keroro645, or boinoinoi, lots of them would be from "unknowns", too. I think that's why I would be a great curator.

Thanks for your time

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#13 2009-05-29 17:40:09

mkolpnji
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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Well I've definitely like to be a curator, after all, I usually expect to only favorite the best of games, (recently I havent seen any good ones so I haven't added any to my favorite list)


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#14 2009-05-29 17:42:47

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Zelda123 wrote:

I would enjoy doing this. Will the position be permanent or will there be a few every month or so?

Hi Zelda123 - we'll probably change curators every few weeks.

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#15 2009-05-29 18:15:53

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to become a Scratch curator


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#16 2009-05-29 18:24:25

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to be a curator.

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#17 2009-05-29 19:32:32

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

This is a great idea! I'd love to be a curator!


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#18 2009-05-29 19:34:59

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

fullmoon wrote:

This is a great idea! I'd love to be a curator!

Me too! Since I have joined scratch I have always wanted to play a major role of the scratch community in some way.Scratch is my favorite thing to do 100%. This is like one of my dreams come true If I get to become a curator. I hope I become one! big_smile

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#19 2009-05-29 23:09:04

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I'd like to become a curator. I'm mainly interested in games that look like they have a lot of work put behind them.
The problem is there's 2 weeks of school left and this summer is going to be busy. I won't have internet access for most of august.

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#20 2009-05-29 23:54:08

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I'd become a curator, but I'm pretty busy as well.  neutral

Anyway, I like the idea - I just hope curators won't abuse their "powers" and pick only projects made by their friend, so something. But I guess they can change him/her if he's caught doing so.


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#21 2009-05-30 00:30:48

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to become a curator, only so the projects that have been worked on really hard, and still don't get veiwed very much can get viewed.  wink   cool  That is a new thing that could work out great!

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#22 2009-05-30 01:01:14

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

Scratch Wiki wrote:

While serving as curator, the Scratcher’s most recent Favorites will be featured in a row on the Scratch Homepage.

It sounds like SCRATCH will just automatically pick the three recent projects favored by the curator. But if I were curator, I would like some say in which three of my favorites appear on the home page. Would that be possible?


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#23 2009-05-30 04:01:26

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I like this idea so much!

I would really like to be a curator. However, I am still thinking about some things...

What if the current "curator" picks a violent project? It'd be shown off on the frontpage for about a week...


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#24 2009-05-30 05:23:10

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

I would like to be a curator. My main interest in Scratch is about educational projects.

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#25 2009-05-30 05:24:40

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Re: Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage

cheddargirl wrote:

Scratch Wiki wrote:

While serving as curator, the Scratcher’s most recent Favorites will be featured in a row on the Scratch Homepage.

It sounds like SCRATCH will just automatically pick the three recent projects favored by the curator. But if I were curator, I would like some say in which three of my favorites appear on the home page. Would that be possible?

I suspect, since it is going to pick your most recent three favorites, that you could force it to pick the ones you want by unfavoriting and then refavoriting projects to manipulate the dates...kind of awkward maybe, but I bet it would work.


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