In this first week the goal was mainly to present Scratch (some resources and ideas), present ourselves and talk about previous/present experiences with scratch  (strenghts and constraints).
Ten teachers, mainly teaching on secondary schools (Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics, Geography, Science, Technology). Also a primary school teacher.
Some teachers never used Scratch but are willing to experiment, others already knew it and talked about it to students but had not time already to make a deeper approach. Two teachers experimented with students during this week and reported that kids reacted very well to the activities. Most consider that Scratch as a programming language can give a good contribution to learning
In the dialogue we stated that, in the different countries there are big differences in approaches to ICT integration in the curriculum. Some make it an obligatory subject, others leave it to chance, others also have documents but then, no way  or enough resources to control what is being done, so each teacher does how it pleases him.
And constraints are sometimes a consequence of those options  (global ones and school ones).
Some constraints that were mentioned on this first week were:

●       Lack of time
●       No computers available
●       Lack of skills even if there are enough computers
●       “Slow tool” (as in, needed more time to get to take the most out of it and get deeper in advance programming)

Strengths

●       Low floor (easy entry) and all new features
●       Intuitive to use
●       Motivating in the first contact
●       Interesting examples to inspire work
●       Kids can teach us