<p dir="ltr">I love the "without teacher input". There nice Windows laptops for the same price. I am the IT guy for my school. I said no Chrome books because I did not want to pay for a free browser and be so limited.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Garth Flint</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 12, 2016 12:29 PM, "Karen Vitek via alice-teachers" <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I just want to add that even though my district is purchasing Chromebooks for students (without teacher input) I will not be using them in my classroom because they are so limiting. I also teach AP Computer Science (DrJava, BlueJ, etc.) and Chromebooks would not work for that class. They are cheap devices that districts feel will get them to a 1 to 1 environment inexpensively at the startup but for the long haul may not be so inexpensive.<div><br><div>
<div><div style="margin:0px;font-family:'Lucida Calligraphy'">Karen A. Vitek</div><div style="margin:0px;min-height:16px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px">Computer Science Teacher</div><div style="margin:0px">Spackenkill High School</div><div style="margin:0px">112 Spackenkill Road</div><div style="margin:0px">Poughkeepsie, NY 12603</div><p style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma"> </p><div style="margin:0px">845-463-7810</div><div style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(71,135,255)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Email: </span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:karen.vitek@sufsdny.org" target="_blank">karen.vitek@sufsdny.org</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-family:Tahoma;min-height:17px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Web: </span><a href="https://moodle.dcboces.org/course/view.php?id=37" style="font-family:Arial" target="_blank"><span>Mrs. Vitek's Teacher Page</span></a></div></div>
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Alice on Chrome Books? (Marcia Viqueira)<br> 2. Re: Alice on Chrome Books? (Don Slater)<br><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>----------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:25:51 -0400<br>From: Marcia Viqueira <<a href="mailto:marcia.viqueira@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcia.viqueira@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.<wbr>cmu.edu</a><br>Subject: alice-teacher Alice on Chrome Books?<br>Message-ID:<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAPwwkcSxokmHoDhKWMaGjtEeHKLOE5OvB1Mf_0PvznztbwBFVw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAPwwkcSxokmHoDhKWMaGjtEeHKLO<wbr>E5OvB1Mf_0PvznztbwBFVw@mail.<wbr>gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Hello,<br>Would Alice 2 or 3 work on a Chrome Book? My school is purchasing a set<br>and it might be easier than reserving space in the computer lab.<br>Thank you,<br>Marcia<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/alice-teachers/attachments/20160911/3841474e/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/<wbr>pipermail/alice-teachers/<wbr>attachments/20160911/3841474e/<wbr>attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:24:57 -0400<br>From: Don Slater <<a href="mailto:don@alice.org" target="_blank">don@alice.org</a>><br>To: Alice Teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.<wbr>cmu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice on Chrome Books?<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:19C3B530-E007-48E5-B20D-9F5994182FE6@alice.org" target="_blank">19C3B530-E007-48E5-B20D-<wbr>9F5994182FE6@alice.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br><br>Marcia,<br>Alice does not currently run the Chromebook or on on any mobile devices? It would be better to think of Alice as a development environment which may someday include the ability to develop apps for mobile devices (currently you can develop videos. but not games, which do run on mobile devices).<br><br>We do revisit the idea of creating a mobile version of Alice, and are open to the possibility, but there will not be such a version in the immediate future.<br><br>Sorry,<br><br>Don Slater<br><br>Alice Project<br>Carnegie Mellon University<br>Entertainment Technology Center<br>700 Technology Drive<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15219<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:dslater@cmu.edu" target="_blank">dslater@cmu.edu</a><br><br>I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br>--- Henry David Thoreau<br><br>The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 11, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Marcia Viqueira via alice-teachers <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.<wbr>cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>Hello,<br>Would Alice 2 or 3 work on a Chrome Book? 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