Alice Videos Summer 2008-2012

Note: Many of the tutorials on the tutorial page have a video that shows you what the Alice world looks like that you will build.

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Alice World Videos

Name: Hot Spot Volcano Lesson
Length: 0:46
Approximate Size: 44 MB

Description: An interactive Alice movie where a scientist goes underwater to explain how a hotspot volcano is formed. The user clicks to advance the lesson. It was created by Stephen Jones during the Alice 2008 workshop.

Movie Links: volcano.mov, volcano.avi
Original Alice World: volcano.a2w

Name: Rounding Game
Length: 2:07
Approximate Size: 110 MB

Description: An interactive Alice game where the player clicks on the place value and determines how to round the number correctly. There are 3 levels of play.

Movie Links: rounding.mov, rounding.avi
Original Alice World: roundingGame.a2w

Name: Kitty Story
Length: 3:14
Approximate Size: 98 MB

Description: An Alice world created in the summer of 2008. The animated story is based on children's book. It was created into an Alice animation by Deborah Nelson and follows a day in the life of a kitty with a leg disability.

Movie Links: kitty.mov, kitty.avi
Original Alice World: kitty.a2w

Name: Ballerina Movie
Length: 1:04
Approximate Size: 40 MB

Description: An Alice animation developed at the Alice 2008 Workshop to demonstrate how you can use lists and billboards as heads in Alice. Each ballerina is a figure from the workshop team in 2008.

Movie Links: ballerina.mov, ballerina.avi
Original Alice World: ballerina.a2w

Name: Eragon Interactive Adventure
Length: 2:53
Approximate Size: 114 MB

Description: An Alice world following the story of Ergon the dragon rider. The user must complete tasks in order to help eragon and his dragon defeat the evil wizard. Created as a final project for an Alice class at Duke University.

Movie Links: eragon.mov, eragon.avi
Original Alice World: eragon.a2w

Name: Music Lesson
Length: 3:03
Approximate Size: 135 MB

Description: An Alice world developed by Jenna Hayes to demonstrate how sound and questions can be used to create an interactive educational game in Alice. Video comes with sound clips to illustrate four different instruments found in the orchestra.

Movie Links: musicLesson.mov, musicLesson.avi
Original Alice World: musicLesson.a2w

Name: Pinata Game
Length: 0:24
Approximate Size: 16 MB

Description: An Alice example game where the user must hit the pinata with a baseball bat a certain number of times before the timer counts down to 0 in order to win. Created my Maggie Bashford in the summer of 2008.

Movie Links: pinata.mov, pinata.avi
Original Alice World: pinata.a2w

Name: Pj's Dream
Length: 3:27
Approximate Size: 144 MB

Description: An Alice world that is an animated story of PJ. The story illustrates PJ's relationship between his biggest fears and how he overcomes them to get to school. Created by a Michael Noto during the Alice 2008 workshop.

Movie Links: pjsDream.mov, pjsDream.avi
Original Alice World: pjsDream.a2w

Name: Geometry Game
Length: 3:17
Approximate Size: 38 MB

Description: An interactive Alice game where the player enters the correct answers for area and perimeter of a square, rectangle and circle.

Movie Links: geometry.mov, geometry.avi
Original Alice World: geometry.a2w

Name: Improper Fractions Story
Length: 2:12
Approximate Size: 64 MB

Description: A story about a pizza party, a dog and improper fractions. There is an explanation of the MAD (multiply, add, denominator stays the same) method for calculating a number into an improper fraction. This story is adapted from the book Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKeller (p. 44-46).

Movie Links: fractions.mov, fractions.avi
Original Alice World: improperFractions.a2w

Name: Alice Pong Game
Length: 0:39
Approximate Size: 10 MB

Description: A two player pong game in Alice. A tutorial on how to build this game can be found under the Project Tutorials on the tutorials page.

Movie Links: alicePong.mov, alicePong.avi
Original Alice World: alicePongFinished.a2w

Name: Bingo Game
Length: 0:53
Approximate Size: 37 MB

Description: A non-interactive bingo game with two players.

Movie Links: bingoVid.mov, bingoVid.avi
Original Alice World: arrayBingo.a2w

Name: Getting the Grade Click-Adventure Game
Length: 1:57
Approximate Size: 100 MB

Description: A click adventure game where the goal is to find the homework assignment. The game will take you through different rooms of the house. Developed by Alison Norris.

Movie Links: gettingTheGradeShort.mov, gettingTheGradeShort.avi
Original Alice World: gettingTheGrade.a2w

Name: Princess & Dragon
Length: 0:37
Approximate Size: 40 MB

Description: A story in alice about a princess who gets captured by a dragon and is rescued by a knight. There is a four part introduction tutorial on the tutorials page that shows you how to build this world.

Movie Links: princessDragon.mov, princessDragon.avi
Original Alice World: princessDragonPart4Finished.a2w

Name: Sorting World
Length: 2:32
Approximate Size: 70 MB

Description: An interactive activity in which a collection of images from a storyboard are placed in random order. The user must then put them in the correct sequence so that the story makes sense Then, the user writes what happens in each picture in order to narrate it.

Movie Links: sortingWorld.mov, sortingWorld.avi
Original Alice World: order&Narrate.a2w

Name: Space World
Length: 0:24
Approximate Size: 7 MB

Description: This is the world created in the Introduction to Alice Tutorial Space version. This tutorial can be used by first time Alice users to learn the Alice basics and can be found on the tutorials page. The characters are an astronaut and a humvee.

Movie Links: spaceWorld.mov, spaceWorld.avi
Original Alice World: gettingStartedSpace.a2w

Name: Historical Tour
Length: 0:53
Approximate Size: 30 MB

Description: This is the world created from the Historical Tour tutorial which shows how to use Alice to make a historical tour world, that can be used to showcase a student's knowledge of some historical topic. The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is the example used.

Movie Links: historicalTour.mov, historicalTour.avi
Original Alice World: historicalTour.a2w

Name: Using Pearls to Understand Variables
Length: 2:03
Approximate Size: 65 MB

Description: The idea for this world came from a book called Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKellar (pgs. 244-246). An explanation of how variables work and how to solve an algebra problem using pearls as an analogy

Movie Links: pearls.mov, pearls.avi
Original Alice World: pearls.a2w

Name: Let's Play Catch: Keeping Score in Alice
Length: 0:16
Approximate Size: 10 MB

Description: A simple game in alice where the user controls a baseball glove and is trying to catch the ball 3 times. To learn how to build this world, see the tutorial of the same name under topical tutorials.

Movie Links: catch.mov, catch.avi
Original Alice World: catchFinished.a2w

Name: Charlotte's Web Book Report in Alice
Length: 0:54
Approximate Size: 32 MB

Description: A simple book report in Alice on the book "Charlotte's Web". A tutorial on this can be found under the 'Projects' heading on the tutorials page.

Movie Links: bookReport.mov, bookReport.avi
Original Alice World: bookReport.a2w

Name: Plotting Points, Lines, and Scatter Plots

Description: Three Alice worlds that use a coordinate plane to create exercieses for plotting points, lines, and scatter plots in Alice. For a tutorial on how to create and use the coordinate system to plot points see the Plotting Points tutorial under the projects heading on the tutorial page.

Movie Links:
plottingPoints.mov, plottingPoints.avi
plottingLine.mov, plottingLine.avi
bikePlot.mov, bikePlot.avi
Original Alice Worlds: plottingPoints.a2w, plottingLine.a2w, bikePlot.a2w

Name: Boat Game
Length: 0:21
Approximate Size: 10 MB

Description: A boat racing game in Alice where the user has to steer the boat through rings and beat the clock. For a tutorial on how to build this sort of game, see the Boat Racing Game tutorial under Project Tutorials on the tutorials page.

Movie Links: boat.mov, boat.avi
Original Alice World: boatGameFinished.a2w

Name: Multiplication Table
Length: 1:06
Approximate Size: 21.7 MB

Description: An interactive multiplication table in Alice. The player is prompted for the correct values in the tale in a a random order.

Movie Links: multTable.mov, multTable.avi
Original Alice World: multTable.a2w

Name: Ready, SET, Go!
Length: 0:51
Approximate Size: 15.9 MB

Description: An interactive SET game in Alice. The goal of the game is to find as many sets as possible, where each set is a collection of 3 cards that all have the same or different colors, same or different numbers, and same or different shapes.

Movie Links: set.mov, set.avi
Original Alice World: set.a2w

Name: Balancing the Scales: Inequalities
Length: 0:27
Approximate Size: 49.6 MB

Description: An Alice game that tests students' knowledge of inequalities by having them compare several sets of objects on a scale.

Movie Links: inequalities.mov, inequalities.avi
Original Alice World: inequalities.a2w

Name:WAR
Length: 1:05
Approximate Size: 13.7 MB

Description: The classic game of War in Alice. Players 1 and 2 press the 1 and 2 buttons, respectively, to draw their card, and the player with the higher card wins both. If the two players draw cards of the same value, then there is a war. This game can be used for probability purposes in the classroom or just as a fun card game.

Movie Links: war.mov, war.avi
Original Alice World: war.a2w

Name: Line Up
Length: 2:45
Approximate Size: 95.9 MB

Description: An Alice animation of ordering 2, 3, and 4 people in a line, counting the number of permutations and relating the number of permutations to factorials.

Movie Links: permutations.mov, permutations.avi
Original Alice World: permutations.a2w

Name: The Matrix
Length: 1:32
Approximate Size: 34.9 MB

Description: A tool in Alice that allows a player to multiply any 2x2 matrices.The multiplication process is animated, and an interactive equation at the bottom helps the player find the solution to each element in the answer matrix.

Movie Links: matrix.mov, matrix.avi
Original Alice World: matrix.a2w

Name: Choosing Random People from a Class
Length: 0:27
Approximate Size: 10.6 MB

Description: An Alice world created to help teachers randomly choose students from a class. The students are displayed with girl and boy bodies with photos of their heads instead of the ones in Alice.

Movie Links: choosePeople.mov, choosePeople.avi
Original Alice World: choosePeople.a2w