<p dir="ltr">I'm a middle school technology teacher and have been teaching Alice for about 7 years now. I teach Scratch in 6th, Alice in 7th and Star logo in 8th along with Lego robots programming. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I have 7th grade complete the tutorials first, then<br>
I give quick demo on Smartboard. After that I give<br>
Assignment, and let them work in pairs. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Assignment is to retell a greek myth with alice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Most come out very well, Im thinking of having<br>
Them try a book report or summarize the story</p>
<p dir="ltr">K. Dasho<br>
North Reading Middle<br>
North Reading, MA</p>
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4. Re: What's the most effective way to teach Alice?<br>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:35:23 +0000<br>
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Subject: Re: alice-teacher help<br>
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Cindy,<br>
The online version I used was slightly different from the students version on their computers. I wonder if that could be your issue too.<br>
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I have been using Matt Wisan <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSrVQRS2sQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSrVQRS2sQ</a> to learn to program in Alice 3.1 collisions with properties. At 4:10 minutes he stats the process of creating properties . My version 3.1 doesn't match his. I found properties under the button to the left of the Scene tab. The property box matches. After I created the property according to Matt's example, the property was not created but the procedure setWitchTurn was created. I could drag the procedure into the proper places of the addKeyPressListner. The setWitchTurn will not drag into the Boolean section of the If Else statement that is inside the collision Started.<br>
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Bellmont High School<br>
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From: Kelly Cockrell <<a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a>><br>
Subject: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach Alice?<br>
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Hi there:<br>
<br>
I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.<br>
<br>
I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you<br>
teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do<br>
you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do<br>
they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what<br>
they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?<br>
<br>
Any information is very much appreciated.<br>
<br>
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Thanks so much,<br>
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Kelly Cockrell<br>
Computer Science and Technology Teacher<br>
The Meadows School<br>
Las Vegas, NV 89128<br>
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Alice?<br>
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I am interested in this information as well. Currently, my high schoolers work through Alice as an independent study course. But I would like to know what everyone else does as well.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Bryant Lazenby<br>
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On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:37 PM, "Kelly Cockrell" <<a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Hi there:<br>
<br>
I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.<br>
<br>
I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?<br>
<br>
Any information is very much appreciated.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks so much,<br>
<br>
Kelly Cockrell<br>
Computer Science and Technology Teacher<br>
The Meadows School<br>
Las Vegas, NV 89128<br>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:31:10 -0500<br>
From: Ron Guillemette <<a href="mailto:rgilmet123@gmail.com">rgilmet123@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach<br>
Alice?<br>
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Kelly,<br>
<br>
I teach at the high school level at a Career & Tech Center. This is my<br>
first year using Alice. What I have been doing is to work through the<br>
examples in the book and use some of the online tutorials together. I then<br>
have them do the same examples on their own. Finallly they work through<br>
the projects in the book. In the spirit of the open source nature of Alice<br>
I have those who want to walk through their projects present them to the<br>
class. We share them out on a shared network drive.<br>
<br>
Student do work collaboratively to figure out problems they encounter<br>
during the programming phase of the projects. Student must include all the<br>
elements of the problem description but are free to enhance the project. I<br>
have found that student are very proud to share their work. I make sure as<br>
I walk around and check progress that I tell different kids how great<br>
certain elements or their programming are and ask them to share these with<br>
the class.<br>
<br>
I also focus on vocabulary. I make sure that when we speak we speak and<br>
act professionally. I want them to act like programmers who constantly<br>
develop and improve their products.<br>
<br>
I can's say enough how this has made my classroom more of a community of<br>
learners. I am having so much fun teaching Alice.<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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Mr. Guillemette<br>
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Computer Technology and Game Design<br>
The Regional Career & Tech Center @ Coventry High<br>
40 Reservoir Road, Coventry, RI 02816<br>
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Kelly Cockrell <<br>
<a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi there:<br>
><br>
> I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.<br>
><br>
> I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you<br>
> teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do<br>
> you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do<br>
> they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what<br>
> they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?<br>
><br>
> Any information is very much appreciated.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks so much,<br>
><br>
> Kelly Cockrell<br>
> Computer Science and Technology Teacher<br>
> The Meadows School<br>
> Las Vegas, NV 89128<br>
><br>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:51:24 -0500<br>
From: Elizabeth Mirecki <<a href="mailto:elizabeth.mirecki@gmail.com">elizabeth.mirecki@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach<br>
Alice?<br>
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I use Alice with grades 7,8, & 9.<br>
<br>
In grade 7 I use various tutorials, some self created, a lot from Duke U,<br>
and some from CMU workshops and textbook. They work through the tutorials<br>
as self study with me there to answer questions, point out CS concepts etc.<br>
After they have completed a 4 part Princess and Dragon story, they begin to<br>
create stories of their own, writing story boards and pseudo code. After<br>
that they return to the tutorials to learn specific topics like functions,<br>
changing scenes, etc. Then another create your own project incorporating<br>
those newly learned objectives.<br>
<br>
Sometimes it can get quite chaotic with 20 students all of different levels<br>
of competency and pace, but I get better results when I don't drag them<br>
along or slow them down. It also allows for customization within the same<br>
concepts. I use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of everything.<br>
<br>
Once the student is in 8th grade, we continue to build off of what we<br>
learned in Alice the previous year. Now the tutorials and projects are<br>
bigger and more complex.<br>
<br>
In 9th grade we switch over to Alice 3. Here again I use a combination of<br>
self study and directed study. Once we switch over and introduce Netbeans<br>
and Java it becomes more directed.<br>
<br>
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On Friday, February 7, 2014, Bryant Lazenby <<a href="mailto:lazenbyb@sedalia.k12.mo.us">lazenbyb@sedalia.k12.mo.us</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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> I am interested in this information as well. Currently, my high<br>
> schoolers work through Alice as an independent study course. But I would<br>
> like to know what everyone else does as well.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Bryant Lazenby<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPhone<br>
><br>
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:37 PM, "Kelly Cockrell" <<br>
> <a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a><javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','<a href="mailto:kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org">kcockrell@themeadowsschool.org</a>');>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi there:<br>
><br>
> I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.<br>
><br>
> I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you<br>
> teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do<br>
> you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do<br>
> they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what<br>
> they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?<br>
><br>
> Any information is very much appreciated.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks so much,<br>
><br>
> Kelly Cockrell<br>
> Computer Science and Technology Teacher<br>
> The Meadows School<br>
> Las Vegas, NV 89128<br>
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:50:56 -0500<br>
From: "Lori Fuller" <<a href="mailto:lori.fuller@browardschools.com">lori.fuller@browardschools.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach<br>
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Alice educators <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> on February 7, 2014<br>
at 4:09 PM -0500 wrote:<br>
>I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you<br>
>teach with Alice. ?Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study?<br>
>?Do you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart<br>
>board? ?Do they ?go through a lesson and then create ?a demonstrative<br>
>world of what they have learned? ? ?What have you found to be the most<br>
>effective?<br>
<br>
I am teaching Alice through our 9th grade Game Simulation Programming<br>
Foundations course. It is actually recommended by the state on the<br>
standards for the course.<br>
I am taking from many resources at the moment to find lessons for the<br>
students. We do use step-by-step lessons along with finding scenarios to<br>
go along with the major concepts being presented in the step by step. I<br>
usually try to add a twist to it. I do not have a smart board, but I do on<br>
occasion use a digital projector. I have Camtasia to help with some of the<br>
lessons, and I have used Screencast and Jing. Most of the time I put the<br>
video lessons in an accessible server folder since they don't play well<br>
over our network.<br>
<br>
The videos are very effective tools, however, I found the students relied<br>
more on my step-by-step instructions more than them thinking through the<br>
problems and figuring it out for themselves up to a point. I will be<br>
working on that for next year.<br>
<br>
I am also up for suggestions and resources to help with teaching<br>
programming using Alice. Next level course, I am planning on using Alice 3.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
<br>
Lori Fuller, M.Ed.<br>
Monarch High School<br>
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