alice-teacher Alice At Home

[Donald Slater]

Denise,
Alice is a desktop app and does not run on any mobile platforms, including the ChromeBook.

Soe have created a workaround which involves installing a linux emulator onto the ChromeBook. But it is not a trivial procedure, and probably beyond what I would expect a 6th grader to be able to do.

I will send you that workaround if you are interested,

I am sorry,
Don Slater

Alice Project

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Denise S <d.stanley at amsacs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am a sixth grade Computer Science teacher. I was just starting my Alice unit with the students when the virus hit.
> Unfortunately a lot of my students use a chromebook at home.
> Is there anyway for them to access Alice at home?
> Sincerely,
> Denise
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 3:01 PM Jan Bekkevold <jbekkevold at ransomeverglades.org <mailto:jbekkevold at ransomeverglades.org>> wrote:
> Good Afternoon Eric,
> Thank you so much for your email and initiative to help educators work with Alice virtually. I am definitely interested.My students are on spring break now and we will be starting Alice and continue for the remainder of the year next week. The only thing I have is some of the materials from the Duke coursera course with Susan Rodgers. I was on the pilot program this summer testing out the course.
> 
> As I figure out how I plan to teach this topic and develop my lesson plans, I will be more than happy to share my ideas.
> Thank you again,
> Jan
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:40 PM Eric Brown <ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
> 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 <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
> 
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