APPLICATIONS for SUMMER 2013 are now OPEN.

In Summer 2013 there will be two workshops. One is a two-week beginner workshop in July 2013 that has a one-week followup workshop the following summer. The other is a one-week followup workshop for those teachers who previously attended one of our workshops, with preference towards those who attended the June 2012 workshop. This year the followup workshop also includes the one-day Alice Symposium.

Application information for both Summer 2013 workshops is now available. Preference is given to NC teachers, but there may be some spots for others. The deadlines to apply are listed below. Our workshops usually fill up. Plans change and every year we take several people off the waitlist, so apply even if you are past the application date.

Thanks to funding from NSF and IBM, funds are available for lodging for both workshops. Lodging will be provided assuming you will share a two bed hotel room. If you want your own hotel room, you would need to pay half and stay at the conference hotel.

2013 Two-week Beginner Alice Workshop, plus One-week followup

There will be a two-week introductory Alice workshop in summer 2013 with a one-week followup workshop in summer 2014. Please note that you are committing to three weeks total, two weeks in 2013 and coming back the following summer for one more week. The dates for this workshop are the following:

• Summer 2013: July 8-12 2013 and July 15-19, 2013, 9am-4pm each day
• Summer 2014: One week in July around the same time. Date to be set.

More Detail on the workshop.

The workshop is for middle and high school teachers of all disciplines to learn programming using the Alice programming environment and to determine how to integrate Alice into their discipline. No prior programming experience is needed. Examples of integration include 1) creating Alice worlds for presentations, 2) creating interactive Alice worlds for students to use to learn concepts, 3) for students to create an Alice world for a project, or 4) for students to use Alice for problem solving. In addition to Alice instruction, teachers will have time to experiment with concepts learned and time to develop lesson plans integrating Alice into their discipline.

Here are examples how others have used Alice in different disciplines. For language arts, students have created book reports or animations of stories or poems they have written. For history, a student created a story about a historical bridge. For spanish, a student created an interactive cooking demo in which ingredients to make banana bread are placed on a table, and students must follow the spanish instructions to move the ingredients in the correct order into the mixing bowl. For science a teacher created a story about how hot spot volcanoes are formed. For music, a student created an interactive quiz in which you hear instrument sounds and you must enter in the name of the instrument. For math an animation was created to show how variables are used in algebra. Also for math students can use Alice for problem solving.

This workshop will most likely use Alice Version 2 which is very stable for K-12 students. Alice 3 will be demoed. A decision on the version will be made at a later date.

• There is no charge for the workshop.
• Funds are available for lodging if you are not local. This assumes you will share a two bed hotel room. Funds are provided for Sun-Friday each week. Funding is not provided for Friday and Saturday nights between the two weeks.
• Lunch is provided.
• A small stipend is provided after lesson plans are turned in.
• Continuing Education credits are provided. We will provide a certificate stating the workshop and the hours you attended.

PLEASE NOTE THE BEGINNER WORKSHOP IS FULL. YOU CAN STILL FILL OUT THE FORM TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE EMAIL LIST TO GET NOTIFIED WHEN THE APPLICATION IS AVAILABLE FOR SUMMER 2014 WORKSHOPS. WE HAVE FUNDING TO RUN MORE WORKSHOPS IN SUMMER 2014.

Click here to apply for TWO-WEEK BEGINNER Workshop in JULY 2013

Note that the application is a link to a "google docs" form page, so your computer must not block docs.google.com.

The deadline to apply is February 11. We will continue to take applications after that date. We usually fill up but there are always some who get in from the wait list even as late as April and May sometimes.

2013 One-week Followup Workshop, for Previous Attendees

We will be holding an Alice Followup Workshop on June 17-21 at Duke. The purpose of this workshop is for teachers who attended the June 2012 workshop to get together to present to other teachers how they are using Alice and to hear about new Alice materials being developed. We also are interested in getting feedback from teachers on developing future materials.

This workshop is for teachers who attended the June 2012 workshop at Duke. Space permitting, teachers from previous workshops who are using Alice can apply to attend, especially those from Duke workshop who were not able to attend the corresponding followup workshop to their Duke Alice workshop.

The schedule would be June 17-21, 9am-4pm each day and 30 hours of CEU credits. However, this year, on Wednesday, June 19, teachers will attend the Alice Symposium which will start earlier and end later.

The workshop will pay five-nights housing, breakfast and lunches.

Click here to apply for the one-week FOLLOWUP Workshop in JUNE 2013

Note that the application is a link to a "google docs" form page, so your computer must not block docs.google.com.