alice-teacher Alice at home
Pappafotopoulos, Dianne
pappafotopoulosd at doversherborn.org
Fri Mar 27 09:42:37 EDT 2020
Hi Chari,
Thanks for sharing. It looks like these are all for Alice 2? Any Alice 3
resources?
Dianne
Dianne M. Pappafotopoulos
Instructional Technology Specialist/Teacher
Dover Sherborn Public Schools,157 Farm Street, Dover, MA 02030
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 9:35 AM Chari Distler <distlerchari at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> I have a web page with material I pulled from Susan’s Adventures in Alice.
> I use this order for middle school and high school students.
>
>
> https://sites.google.com/charidistler.com/charidistler/alice-with-ms-distler?authuser=0
>
>
> I then have students screencast worlds and upload to YouTube. Then they
> add their link to Adobe Spark Page and reflect which gives them portfolio
>
> Example
> https://spark.adobe.com/page/IlH8soJO0Dtnx/
>
> Hope this helps someone
>
> Regards,
> Chari
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:03 PM <
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>> 1. Re: Alice At Home (Donald Slater)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:53:14 -0400
>> From: Donald Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
>> To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice At Home
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>> Keith Golebie, who has worked with us in the Pittsburgh area has posted
>> instructions on how to get Alice running on a Chromebook? I have copied
>> them below?
>>
>> Keith may have more thoughts or input on this...
>>
>> <begin instructions from Keith Golebie (kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us
>> <mailto:kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us>)>
>>
>> For those of you who may be interested...
>>
>> After many attempts, I am happy to report that Alice 3 (the latest
>> version) is running on the Chromebook! Linux is running in a window, so you
>> can toggle between Linux and Chrome without rebooting.
>>
>> All credit and thanks to Steve Audia at CMU - Steve's patience through
>> this process was amazing! Additionally, thanks and credit to Eric Brown for
>> your input and for making the connections.
>>
>> The process does require Developer mode, and that may be sticky for IT
>> Staff in school districts, but it does work.
>>
>> This is not as complicated as it may seem. There are 3 main steps - run
>> the Ubuntu install, update Linux & install java, then install Alice. This
>> is only one method of making this work, there are others. If you find other
>> methods, please share them with the list.
>>
>> Installing the Linux version of Alice on a Chromebook
>>
>> 1. Follow the steps to install Linux Ubuntu using Crouton found here:
>> https://www.lifewire.com/install-linux-on-chromebook-4125253 <
>> https://www.lifewire.com/install-linux-on-chromebook-4125253>
>>
>> Once Linux is up and running, you may have to reboot the system, so go
>> ahead and do that.
>> (Follow directions on Crouton install)
>>
>> 2. After rboot, in a terminal window on Linux, run:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
>> sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
>> python-software-properties
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
>>
>> 3. Alice
>> Download Alice 3 for Linux from Alice.org <http://alice.org/>
>>
>> The remainder is from Alice.org <http://alice.org/>:
>>
>> Linux:
>> the Linux shell script does not start the installer right
>> away. Follow these steps:
>>
>> Open the Terminal, and go to the directory where you have
>> downloaded Alice.
>> Type chmod +x Alice3_unix_Offline_3_2_5_0_0.sh
>> Type ./Alice3_unix_Offline_3_2_5_0_0.sh
>> Installation will start in a few seconds
>>
>> 4. Alice 2
>> Click on Download Alice 2.x for Linux for the appropriate gallery
>> version of Alice 2.x.
>> After the download is complete, unzip the downloaded file.
>> Place the complete uncompressed directory in the desired location
>> on your machine.
>> Open the Alice 2.x directory
>> Find the Required directory in the Alice 2.x directory and open it
>> Double-click the run-alice file in the Required directory (you
>> may wish to create a short-cut for this file to place on your desktop).
>> If Alice does not start, you may need to reset the classpath for
>> the Java location on your machine.
>>
>> -Keith
>>
>> <end Keith Golebie instructions>
>>
>> Al the best,
>> Don Slater
>>
>> Alice Project
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Stanton, Karen <kstanton at losmedanos.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi there;
>> >
>> > My campus just purchased 50 Chromebooks and we are about to set them up
>> for student use. Please keep me in the loop for the instructions on that
>> workaround.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Karen Stanton
>> >
>> > Los Medanos College
>> > 2700 E. Leland Road, Room CO2-200
>> > Pittsburg, CA 94565
>> > (925) 473-7788
>> > kstanton at losmedanos.edu <mailto:kstanton at losmedanos.edu>
>> >
>> > From: alice-teachers <alice-teachers-bounces+kstanton=
>> losmedanos.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:
>> alice-teachers-bounces+kstanton=losmedanos.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> On
>> Behalf Of Donald Slater
>> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:27 AM
>> > To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:
>> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
>> > Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice At Home
>> >
>> > ** Email from External Sender **
>> > 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 <mailto:
>> 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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