alice-teacher Courses taught in Alice

[Laurie Solomon Cohen]

In my high school class, I am doing almost the same thing you describe. A few students can go ahead on their own, but most need my help to explain each new skill.  We use the same book.  The books aren't free, but we found them used on various sites for very inexpensive ($5 or less each copy).




Laurie Cohen
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Yeshiva of Greater Washington
Silver Spring, Maryland
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On 19 Mar 2012, at 00:31, Daryl Detrick <DetrickD at warrenhills.org> wrote:

> Sandy,
> 
> 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
> 
> Daryl, for your animation course, do you start with chapter one and then go 
through what chapter?
> 
> 
> 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 Daryl Detrick
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:02 AM
> To: Alice educators
> Subject: alice-teacher Courses taught in Alice
> 
> 
> 
> 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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