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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>Alice educators <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> on February 7, 2014 at 4:09 PM -0500 wrote:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">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?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">I am teaching Alice through our 9th grade Game Simulation Programming Foundations course. It is actually recommended by the state on the standards for the course.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">I am taking from many resources at the moment to find lessons for the students. We do use step-by-step lessons along with finding scenarios to go along with the major concepts being presented in the step by step. I usually try to add a twist to it. I do not have a smart board, but I do on occasion use a digital projector. I have Camtasia to help with some of the lessons, and I have used Screencast and Jing. Most of the time I put the video lessons in an accessible server folder since they don't play well over our network. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">The videos are very effective tools, however, I found the students relied more on my step-by-step instructions more than them thinking through the problems and figuring it out for themselves up to a point. I will be working on that for next year. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">I am also up for suggestions and resources to help with teaching programming using Alice. Next level course, I am planning on using Alice 3.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">thanks,</font></div>
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