alice-teacher ALICE training

Wed Sep 12 14:57:58 EDT 2012

You will have to download Alice 2.3 to see the Alice Worlds that are linked
on the sites.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Vivian Cunningham <
vcunningham.slms at lee.k12.nc.us> wrote:

> This from Professor Rodgers at Duke might help.  That is where I went to
> the workshop.  Look at the sites, they have tutorials. Also,  Dr. Rodgers
> will know where other workshops around the country are scheduled for next
> summer.
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> To: rodger at cs.duke.edu
> Subject: Alice updates
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:05:33 -0400
> From: Susan Rodger <rodger at collard>
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> Hi to everyone from the June workshop.
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> I know school has started and everyone must be busy. I wanted to
> update you on some Alice related items.
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> 1) Alice 2.2 has been updated and is now called Alice 2.3.
> This version should look similar to what you used this summer and
> has some bugs fixed.
>
> Alice 3.1 has also been released but that is probably not the version you
> want to use, it looks quite a bit different and is more for those
> wanting to use it to then transition to Java (serious H.S. programming
> course and/or college course).
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> 2) If you are using Alice, I strongly urge you to join the
> Alice listserv.
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> http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=TeachersList/TeachersList
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> You can post questions you or your students have and they have been
> really good about answering them quickly. You can also learn from the
> answers.
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> 3) The Alice Symposium will be held on June 19, 2013.
> Our followup workshop will be that week June 17-21, so please
> save the date for this workshop. On the 19th we will all
> attend the Alice Symposium, and the rest of that week we will
> have our followup workshop.
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> Info on the Alice Symposium is brief but here is the website:
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>   http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/aliceSymposium2013/
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> Steve Cooper will be back and many of the CMU Alice people will be
> here that week.
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> I'll let you know when I have more information about it.
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> 4) Our workshop web pages got updated in late summer including
> pictures:
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> http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/workshop12/twoweek.php
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> Many links should be there now. Let me know if they are not.
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> We also updated the tutorial page:
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>   http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/tutorials.php
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> And all your lesson plans should be on this page. Please let us
> know if we did not categorize your plans correctly:
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>   http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/lessonPlans/
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> 5) And Finally, Melissa finished the video she made about the Alice
> workshop.
> I linked it in on our main page under "Alice Workshops" the second
> paragraph mentions her 3-minute video. Some of you are in it.
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> http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/
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> Susan
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> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Sharon Flinspach <
> sharon.flinspach at fairfieldsfuture.org> wrote:
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>> I wouldn't necessarily give up on Visual Basic.  Yes, VB6 is outdated,
>> but you could try Visual Basic 2010.  Our local community college (in Iowa)
>> teaches it as part of their Software Development program, and I am teaching
>> the course this year for community college credit.  And, Microsoft just
>> recently released VB 2012 as well.  However, in support of Alice, they also
>> teach Alice as their very first programming language, and I could teach it
>> for community college credit as well.
>>
>> You might see if any community colleges might teach Alice in the DFW area
>> of Texas.  I imagine we do things differently in Iowa than in Texas, so
>> perhaps that won't work.
>>
>> Best Wishes!
>> Sharon Flinspach
>> Fairfield High School
>> Fairfield, Iowa
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>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Ott, Adrian A <aott at dentonisd.org>wrote:
>>
>>> *I am in the DFW area of Texas. Does anyone know of any face-to-face
>>> training in implementing ALICE in the classroom. I have used Visual Basic 6
>>> for years in my beginning Computer Science class. However, it is outdated
>>> and Microsoft no longer supports it. I am looking for a language that has
>>> students using graphics from the very beginning. So I want to learn ALICE
>>> to see if it will fit my students’ needs. Any suggestions would be
>>> appreciated.*
>>>
>>> * *
>>>
>>> Adrian Ott****
>>>
>>> Ryan High School ****
>>>
>>> Room 126****
>>>
>>> Computer Science 1, AP Computer Science, Algebra2****
>>>
>>> 940.369.3165****
>>>
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> Vivian Cunningham
> 6th Grade English/Language Arts and Science
> SanLee Middle School
> 2309 Tramway Road
> Sanford, NC 27330
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Vivian Cunningham
6th Grade English/Language Arts and Science
SanLee Middle School
2309 Tramway Road
Sanford, NC 27330
919 708-7227  X 6550

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