Adventures in
Alice Programming
Duke University, Durham, NC
Workshop Schedule July 9-13, 2012
This is a one-week followup workshop on Alice for those teachers who attended the workshop in July 2011. This workshop is an opportunity for those teachers to come together to learn about new Alice materials, to talk about how they are using Alice at their schools, and to develop new Alice materials.
The one-week Followup Alice workshop will be held from (breakfast at 8:30am), 9am-4pm in LSRC D106 and includes breakfast, lunch and snacks. There is no charge for the workshop. Breakfast and lunch include demos and discussions.
Please see the logistics page for directions, parking passes, and housing at the Brookwood Inn.
Pictures from Workshop
Workshop Schedule
Monday, July 9, 2012 - Day 1
- Breakfast - Answer Questions
- Introductions
- Welcome and Motivation - Alice Talk given at SIGCSE 2012 (pdf) and (pdf 4/page)
- Looking Glass - succesor to Story Telling Alice
- Alice Symposium at Duke 2009
- Subscribe to the Alice listserv
- Presentation by Teacher Donna Hoover - showed movie of Alice worlds
- Discussion by Debra Ludde
- Sample world with orientTo and textures - how to import ground textures and use them
- Lunch - with sample Alice Worlds and discussion
- Links to books related to Randy Pausch The Last Lecture, The Comet and the Tornado, Dream New Dreams
- How to convert from .mov to .avi - Here is one tool: zamzar - Note there are lots of other tools. This one is free for up to 100MB
- Alice Demos
- Chris Brown Demos
- Array tutorial
- FBI Alice Internet Safety Contest
- CS Unplugged
- CSED Week
- Defense Logistics Agency
- NCCAT Conference Facilities
- DPI CTE Technology
- Common Core State Standards for math and language arts
- Discussion by Peggy-Grantham
- Presentation by Megan Webb - showed student worlds
- Lunch - showed Steve Cooper Alice Demos
- Afternoon - Work on tutorials and lesson plans
- Group Picture
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - Day 3
- Other animation tools mentioned:
- glogster - graphic blog and visual social network
- edmodo - facebook for teachers
- Go!animate - Make animated videos easily
- xtranormal - Make animated videos easily
- Discussion by Kierca Kimbel
- Presentation by Courtney Rudder
- Presentation by Deb Jones
- Discussion by Susan Smith
- Discussion by Felicia Sawyer
- Links to Web Tools from NCNSP Presentation
- presentations by Chris and Mike of lesson plans from Teachers at the June Beginner workshop
- Lunch Alice Demos
- Work on Tutorials or Lesson Plans
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - Day 4
- Michael demoed some teacher lesson plans from the June workshop
- Research Study
- Alice End of Program Content Assessment
- Teacher Use of Alice Survey
- End of Program Survey
- Work on lesson plans in the morning
- Lunch - demoed Alice 3
- Work on lesson plans in the afternoon
- Lesson Plan templates submitted by teachers in July workshop
- Lesson Plan templates submitted by teachers in June workshop
- Research Study - Internal and External evaluator forms.
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Felicia Sawyer
Friday, July 13, 2012 - Day 5
- Work on Alice lesson plans
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Peggy Grantham
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Debra Ludde
- Lunch Alice demos - demo of librarian world and more Steve Cooper Demos
- link to aliceprogramming.net - Alice materials with Cooper and Dann book
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Courtney Rudder
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Donna Hoover
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Debra Jones
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Megan Webb
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Kierca Kimbel
- Lesson Plan Presentation by Susan Smith
- Research Study - Feedback on Workshop