alice-teacher Alice At Home

[Eric Brown]

Dear All,

First and foremost I hope you and your communities are all are staying safe.  With the large efforts being done by educators to migrate teaching to virtual classrooms we wanted to see what we could do to help.  A couple quick things that we hope you all could do to help us and each other:

1.  If you are using Alice and migrated to a virtual classroom if you could share any approaches, tips, tricks, resources, or stories with the community that would be great!  Just reply here to share or feel free to send our way direct and we can share it out.

2.  We are thinking about starting weekly Alice Q and A’s or workshops for educators or even students on Alice. If you think this would be of interest to you please let us know so we can gauge interest and need.  We are hosting a short basics of Alice via our local intermediary unity tomorrow that any are welcome to join (these are definitely targeted at educators):  https://www.aiu3.net/Page/4914 and we will continue to keep our eyes out for other hosting online events for Alice to share with you all and definitely don’t be shy about sharing opportunities with this list.

3.  If you or your students are continuing to work with Alice please share their work with us so we can connect everyone.  You can send to us directly or through our facebook or twitter (#programWithAlice).  We would very much be interested to hear if anyone is using Alice to challenge students to make worlds about social distancing or other social impact narratives.

4.  We have had many inquiries about Alice and chrome books now that many students are limited to the home and their one to one chrome books.  Unfortunately as many of you know Alice is a desktop Java application so this is not supported.  We  understand that this limits us for many but hope that it also helps those communities where internet connectivity may be a challenges we can we can fill another need. 

The Alice Team is here to help you, your parents, and your students.  Don’t hesitate to reach out to us and this community with questions or ideas for how we can better serve you all.

Sincerely,

Eric