alice-teacher Courses taught in Alice

[Don Slater]

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Later,
Don Slater

On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Siobhan R wrote:

> Is the book free?
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> Siobhan 
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> On 19 Mar 2012, at 00:31, Daryl Detrick <DetrickD at warrenhills.org> wrote:
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>> Sandy,
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>> I am using the book Learning to Program with Alice.  We start with chapter 1 and go through chapter 5, and touch on some topics in chapters 6 and 7.  We could definitely go faster, but I think I would lose a lot of the low level kids.  With every section I have a lab.  The nice thing is that I can challenge the more advanced students in every section with finer details or advanced topics.  All labs are done in class and we do two big projects:  an e-card and an interactive program/game.  They work for 2-3 days on the labs and a couple of weeks on each project
>> Please let me know if you would like any of the materials or have more questions
>> Daryl
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>> From: alice-teachers-bounces+detrickd=warrenhills.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [alice-teachers-bounces+detrickd=warrenhills.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Graham [sandyg at gvtc.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:40 PM
>> To: 'Alice educators'
>> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Courses taught in Alice
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>> Daryl, for your animation course, do you start with chapter one and then go through what chapter?
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>> Your sister in Christ,
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>> 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 Daryl Detrick
>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:02 AM
>> To: Alice educators
>> Subject: alice-teacher Courses taught in Alice
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>> Another teacher and I introduced an animation class last year.  The students take half a year with me using Alice (programming) and half a year with him using 3D Studio Max (design).  Either class could run on its own, but that was how the administration was willing to approve it.
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>> In my opinion, the most important part of teaching a computer science class is the logical thinking and problem solving learned.  I found that my intro to computer science class (in Java) was too challenging for a large percentage of the student populations.  So by introducing a half year class in Alice, any student in the school can have the opportunity to improve their problem solving and logical thinking skills in a fun and interesting way.  My Alice class (Animation) has a high percentage of freshman and special ed students.   So far it has been great.
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