alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page

[Don Slater]

This fall we will have a users guide for Alice 3 to accompany a set of instructional materials for use with Alice 3 in the classroom. The text is in development now, and will be ready for Fall, 2013.

Let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,
Don Slater

On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:26 AM, Sandy Graham wrote:

> Is there a new book to go with Alice 3.x, then? 
>  
> Your sister in Christ,
>  
> Sandy Graham
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice-teachers-bounces+sandyg=gvtc.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+sandyg=gvtc.com at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Don Slater
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:08 PM
> To: pcampbell.dawson at gmail.com; Alice educators
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice Facebook Page
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> The main difference between the three is the intended audience, and the goals of the course for which each tool will be used.
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> Alice 2.x is intended to be used in formal educational settings (including home-school settings), from upper elementary, to the first year of college, for students with no previous programming experience, as an introduction to basic programming skills and computer science.
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> Alice 3 is intended to be used in formal educational settings (including home-school settings), from 9th grade, to the first year of college, for students with no previous programming experience, or who have had a course using Alice 2.x, as an introduction or review of basic programming skills and computer science. But the expectation of the course in which Alice 3 is to be used is that students will transition to a production programming language, such as Java. In other words, at the end of a course, students will be expected to be writing code in Java, Java versions of Alice programs, and more traditional Java programs that one will find in a CS 1 or AP CS course.
>  
> Looking Glass is the tool being developed by Dr Caitlin Kelleher's team at Washington University of St Louis, designed to succeed Storytelling Alice. It is built on the same framework as Alice 3, but it has features to support its use in informal settings (after school clubs, etc), for grades 4 - 8. It has a social component in which students can share their work and actually copy behaviors and routines from other projects on the website.
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> Alice 2.2 and Alice 3.0 is available at http://www.alice.org, and Alice 3.1 will soon be released at the same website.
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> Looking Glass is available at http://lookingglass.wustl.edu.
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> Let me know if you have any other questioins.
>  
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>  
>  
> On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Patricia Campbell wrote:
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> > What is the relationship between Alice 2.x & 3 and Looking Glass?  It looks a lot like Alice.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Don Slater <djslater107 at me.com> wrote:
> > We now have a more accessible URL to access the "Alice Intro to Programming" Facebook page we have set up.
> >
> >        https://www.facebook.com/AliceProgramming
> >
> > Check out the image showing some models from the Alice 3 gallery, and look at the link to Looking Glass, a visual programming environment for learning through making games and animations. Created by the group headed by Dr. Caitlin Kelleher at Washington University, St. Louis, creator of Storytelling Alice.
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> > Later,
> > Don Slater
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