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Introduction ScratchR is a platform for sharing programmable media on-line. This platform allows people to publish their own animated stories, games and interactive art made in the Scratch programming language. ScratchR is the engine behind the Scratch on-line community, a social network of young programmers. Unlike other user-generated content communities, ScratchR makes it easy to reuse other people's creations to foster collaborative learning. ScratchR allows members to rate, comment, tag and create galleries. ScratchR is to programming what YouTube is for video production. Details ScratchR is a social media web application developed to power the Scratch website at MIT. ScratchR is now used by other websites around the world (e.g. Portugal and the UAE) as part of the Federation of Scratch websites. ScratchR runs on Free and Open Source Software (CakePHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcached) and is also freely available under the General Public License version 2. The Scratch forums are running using FluxBB and the support pages are using MindTouch DekiWiki. People The research and development of ScratchR is led by Andrés Monroy-Hernández, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab (under supervision of Mitchel Resnick). The Scratch website at MIT is hosted at the MIT Media Lab and managed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group with the help of Amos Blanton, Lance Vikaros, Chris Spence and Mark Goff. Publications * Designing a website for creative learning Proceedings of the WebSci'09: Society On-Line, Andres Monroy-Hernandez (2009) * Empowering kids to create and share programmable media interactions, Monroy-Hernández, A. and Resnick, M. (2008) * ScratchR: Sharing User-Generated Programmable Media. Interaction Design for Children Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, Monroy-Hernandez, A. (2007) 
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