alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 30, Issue 6
Daniela Marghitu
MARGHDA at auburn.edu
Thu Jan 31 11:50:50 EST 2013
Oops, I forgot the link to the page in my initial email ...
Dear Marty and All,
My team I worked with Alice and special needs children (in an inclusive environment) since 2006 (see this page for the timeline and some other related resources : http://charis.eng.auburn.edu/sites/CS4ALL/SitePages/LEAT_K12_timeline.aspx ) and we have been very successful.
Whereas, depending on their special needs, these students might need more time and one-to-one basis instruction, they were all able to accomplish as much as the typical students.
Also, one of my best Alice instructor is as well a special needs undergraduate student!
Maybe we should create a focus group of this list on Alice and special needs students?
Best wishes,
Daniela
Daniela Marghitu, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Faculty Coordinator Director Education and Assistive Technology Lab Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Shelby Technology Center, Room 3118
Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849
E-mail: daniela at eng.auburn.edu
Phone: (334)844-6386 Fax: (334)844-6329
Web Address: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/daniela/
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1. Re: Alice listserv (Daryl Detrick)
2. Students with special needs (Distler, Chari)
3. Registration Open for Alice Duke Workshops and Theme for
Alice Contest (Susan Rodger)
4. Re: Take Picture in Alice 2.3 (terry morley)
5. Re: Alice listserv (Laurie Solomon Cohen)
6. Re: Alice listserv (Marty Schultz)
7. Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples (Nicholson, Leland)
8. Re: Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples (Grim, Dianne)
9. array element removal/deletion in Alice 3.1.58 (Steven Pleau)
10. Re: Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples (Don Slater)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:51:17 -0500
From: Daryl Detrick <DetrickD at warrenhills.org>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Marty,
A few years ago I created a class called Computer Animation with Alice just for this reason. I realized that Intro to Java was too difficult for many students, but all students should have the opportunity to enhance their problem solving and logical thinking skills through computer science. The Alice class is aimed at mostly freshman and special education students. The great thing about Alice is that it is so easy to differentiate instruction. All levels of students can be challenged in an engaging way.
Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.
Daryl Detrick
detrickd at warrenhills.org
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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 Don Slater [dslater at andrew.cmu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Marty Schultz
Cc: Alice Teachers
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
Marty,
We have reports of special needs students have a wonderful and successful experience with Alice.
I believe that your question is an excellent one for the listserv, and I am just as interested in seeing the responses as you are.
I have cc'd the list with this message.
All the best,
Don Slater
On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Marty Schultz <schultz_marty at hotmail.com<mailto:schultz_marty at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Don,
Thanks for the listserv membership.
I?m one week into the class, and Alice is quite a hit with the students. You guys did a great job.
Two of the students are special needs ? slightly slower than average. They are excited about it, and the hope is that they ?find themselves? by learning to program. Have other teachers worked with special needs kids with Alice? Do they have any suggestions or insights?
--Marty
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:15:31 -0500
From: "Distler, Chari" <DistlerC at NBPS.ORG>
Subject: alice-teacher Students with special needs
To: "alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu"
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Hi all,
I am responding to the students with special needs. I teach middle school and high school Alice. This year I am teaching 12 12-week sessions. My classes are mixed with special education students. The students are mainstreamed in their elective classes. I have one student in particular that has taken a special interest in Alice. He created a world with an iPad in it. The other students in the class were all amazed with his work and started making their own iPad worlds. Here is a link to his world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EldwKBMbCyA
This student in particular has taken a keen interest in Alice and has used many advanced skills in his work.
Most of my special ed. Students have learning disabilities and I found that they were able to keep up with the class because of their enjoyment. I kept my class at same pace for classes with and without mainstreamed students. I did ask often if they wanted anything repeated and I would go around and make sure they were at where they needed to be. Many of these students signed up for Alice for an additional trimester and have been working indepentently on tutorials and innovative worlds.
Any questions, please email me at distlerc at nbps.org Regards, Chari Distler
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:34:43 -0500
From: Susan Rodger <rodger at cs.duke.edu>
Subject: alice-teacher Registration Open for Alice Duke Workshops and
Theme for Alice Contest
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Message-ID: <20130130033443.5336A380059 at collard.cs.duke.edu>
There will be THREE events of interest to K-12 teachers related to Alice at Duke University in summer 2013. Please encourage those using Alice and not using Alice to consider attending one or more of these events!
1) Registration is now open for the two-week free beginner workshop on
Alice (version 2.3) at Duke University on July 8-12 and July 15-19,
2013. This two-week beginner workshop teaches you Alice and helps you
in developing lesson plans. This workshop is available to K-12
teachers, with preference to NC K-12 teachers, but we always take a
few teachers from outside of NC. This workshop is free and includes
free lodging (sharing a room with one other teacher) and several meals
thanks to support by the National Science Foundation with additional
support by IBM.
Registration/Information on the two-week beginner workshop is here:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/workshop13
2) Registration is open for the one-week followup workshop on Alice at
Duke on June 17-21 (which includes attending the Alice Symposium
mentioned below) for teachers who have previously attended the
two-week Alice workshop at Duke, with preference for those who
attended in 2012, but there is likely room for those who attended a
previous two-week workshop and have not been able to attend the
followup workshop in the past.
Registration/Information on the one-week followup workshop is here:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools/workshop13
3) There will be a one-day Alice Symposium on June 19, 2013. Teachers
using Alice can submit a poster or paper about how they are using
it to share with others. There is also an Alice contest you can
submit student worlds too. This symposium is part of a week of
activities that includes two-day workshops before and after the
symposium led by others including Alice leaders from CMU and
Barb Ericson from Georgia Tech.
Paper submission deadline is Feb. 15.
Poster and Alice Contest deadline is March 15. Theme for the
contest is Superstition.
There will be lodging scholarships for K-12 teachers.
Information on the Alice Symposium and two-day workshops that
week is here:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/aliceSymposium2013/
Registration is not available yet for the Alice Symposium or the
two-day workshops that will precede and follow the Symposium.
Here is the call for the Alice Symposium. If you have been using Alice, consider submitting a paper, poster or student world. If you have not been using Alice but want to see how others are using it, then plan to attend this one-day symposium and consider attending a shorter 2-day workshop to learn more about Alice.
Call for papers, posters and Alice contest for the Third Alice Symposium!
Paper deadline: February 15, 2013
Poster deadline: March 15, 2013
Contest deadline: March 15, 2013
The Third Alice Symposium will be held at Duke University in Durham, NC on June 19, 2013.
It's a week of Alice activities June 17-21, 2013. In addition to the Alice Symposium on June 19, there will be two-day workshops related to Alice before and after the Alice Symposium.
Submissions:
You are invited to submit a paper or poster related to the educational use of the Alice programming language at any level (elementary school, middle school, high school, community college, university).
Teachers are invited to submit student Alice worlds for an Alice contest, with the theme SUPERSTITION.
More information is available here:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/aliceSymposium2013
Questions? Contact Kathy Menchaca, menchaca at cs.stanford.edu.
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Susan H. Rodger, Professor of the Practice Computer Science Dept. Box 90129, Duke University, Durham NC 27708-0129
Email: rodger at cs.duke.edu URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~rodger
Phone: (919)-660-6595 Fax: (919)-660-6519
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:15:08 -0800 (PST)
From: terry morley <terrymorley2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Take Picture in Alice 2.3
To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Does it work in the older version?
Thank you
Terry Morley
Technology Teacher and Coordinator
Mater Dei Catholic School
493 E. Main Street
Lansdale, PA 19446
215-368-0995
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From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:39 PM
Subject: alice-teacher Take Picture in Alice 2.3
The "Take Picture" button in the latest release of Alice 2.3 has been removed.
By way of explanation, this was not an arbitrary decision.? The problem is that the built-in "Take a Picture" in Alice 2 was created using Direct X for the PC.? Therefore, it doesn't work for Mac users and recent updates of Direct X cause problems on newer systems (Vista, Windows 7, and now Windows 8).
Therefore, we have had a increasing number of complaints and that has led to disabling the feature and asking people to simply use whatever screen capture they have on their computer. See the following links:
For Windows
??? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Take-a-screen-capture-print-screen
For OS X
??? http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Don Slater
Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Office phone: (412) 268-4370
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:24:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Laurie Solomon Cohen <lscohen613 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
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Do you have check lists, as you mention, that you could share? They sound like a great idea.
Laurie Cohen
Technology Coordinator/Business Instructor Yeshiva of Greater Washington Silver Spring, Maryland LCohen at yeshiva.edu LSCohen613 at aol.com
240-793-1269 cell
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From: Wendy Evans <wendy_evans at cvsd.k12.pa.us>
To: 'Alice educators' <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 5:45 pm
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
Marty,
I have worked with special needs students in Programming with Alice. They do get really excited about what they can do. Mostly, it?s matter of patience and expectations. I allow them to take baby steps as compared to my ?regular? students and have everything mapped out step by step depending on the need. I use check lists. I?ve worked with students with IEP?s and one young man with Autism. All are high school students. I wish you the very best in introducing them to a whole new world.
Miss Wendy Sue Evans
Conestoga Valley High School
Math and Computer Science Teacher
From: alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Don Slater
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:53 PM
To: Marty Schultz
Cc: Alice Teachers
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
Marty,
We have reports of special needs students have a wonderful and successful experience with Alice.
I believe that your question is an excellent one for the listserv, and I am just as interested in seeing the responses as you are.
I have cc'd the list with this message.
All the best,
Don Slater
On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Marty Schultz <schultz_marty at hotmail.com> wrote:
Don,
Thanks for the listserv membership.
I?m one week into the class, and Alice is quite a hit with the students. You guys did a great job.
Two of the students are special needs ? slightly slower than average. They are excited about it, and the hope is that they ?find themselves? by learning to program. Have other teachers worked with special needs kids with Alice? Do they have any suggestions or insights?
--Marty
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:18:07 -0500
From: Marty Schultz <schultz_marty at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Can you share your curriculum with me? For the other students, we are following Randy/Wanda's book
Thanks
On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:09 PM, "Wendy Evans" <wendy_evans at cvsd.k12.pa.us> wrote:
> Marty,
> I have worked with special needs students in Programming with Alice. They do get really excited about what they can do. Mostly, it?s matter of patience and expectations. I allow them to take baby steps as compared to my ?regular? students and have everything mapped out step by step depending on the need. I use check lists. I?ve worked with students with IEP?s and one young man with Autism. All are high school students. I wish you the very best in introducing them to a whole new world.
>
> Miss Wendy Sue Evans
> Conestoga Valley High School
> Math and Computer Science Teacher
>
>
>
> From:
> alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us at lists.andrew
> .cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Don Slater
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:53 PM
> To: Marty Schultz
> Cc: Alice Teachers
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice listserv
>
> Marty,
> We have reports of special needs students have a wonderful and successful experience with Alice.
>
> I believe that your question is an excellent one for the listserv, and I am just as interested in seeing the responses as you are.
>
> I have cc'd the list with this message.
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Marty Schultz <schultz_marty at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Don,
>
> Thanks for the listserv membership.
>
> I?m one week into the class, and Alice is quite a hit with the students. You guys did a great job.
>
> Two of the students are special needs ? slightly slower than average. They are excited about it, and the hope is that they ?find themselves? by learning to program. Have other teachers worked with special needs kids with Alice? Do they have any suggestions or insights?
>
> --Marty
>
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:02:04 -0500
From: "Nicholson, Leland" <NicholsonL at fultonschools.org>
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples
To: <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Does anyone have any Alice 3.1 examples and/or tutorials/lessons on the use of the If...Else? The lessons I used before assumed a primitive Boolean "wider than", so any insight on where that went (or is) would be helpful as well.
If there are other repositories of Alice 3.1 tutorials or documentation around, please comment on that as well. I installed 3.1 in my classroom and seem to running into snags with the lessons used previously with Alice 2.
Thank you,
Lee Nicholson
CS Teacher
Alpharetta High School
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:52:08 +0000
From: "Grim, Dianne" <Dianne.Grim at vernonct.org>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples
To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Have you checked out YouTube?? There are so many great tutorials out there that I have incorporated into my curriculum (heck, why reinvent the wheel?).
Anyone out there attending SIGCSE Conference in Denver in March? It would be nice to meet other ALICE instructors!
Regards,
Dianne K.L. Grim, MEd.
Rockville High School
Computer Science Dept.
860-870-6050 x131
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From: alice-teachers-bounces+dianne.grim=vernonct.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [alice-teachers-bounces+dianne.grim=vernonct.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Nicholson, Leland [NicholsonL at fultonschools.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:02 PM
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples
Does anyone have any Alice 3.1 examples and/or tutorials/lessons on the use of the If?Else? The lessons I used before assumed a primitive Boolean ?wider than?, so any insight on where that went (or is) would be helpful as well.
If there are other repositories of Alice 3.1 tutorials or documentation around, please comment on that as well. I installed 3.1 in my classroom and seem to running into snags with the lessons used previously with Alice 2.
Thank you,
Lee Nicholson
CS Teacher
Alpharetta High School
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:38:56 -0500
From: "Steven Pleau" <spleau at assabet.org>
Subject: alice-teacher array element removal/deletion in Alice 3.1.58
To: <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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Good morning,
I am trying to remove elements from an array in version 3.1.58 without much success?? Is it even possible? If so, what is the trick!??
Thanks
Steve
Steven Pleau
Programming & Web Development Teacher
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School
215 Fitchburg Street
Marlborough, MA 01752-1288
508-485-9430 x2840
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:35:17 -0500
From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice 3.1 If...Else Examples
To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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I am posting on YouTube a quick and dirty demonstration of how to build a simple conditional in Alice 3.1.
http://youtu.be/b2h8Bjt8Q1A
I have also attached the completed world that I built in the demo.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Later,
Don Slater
On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:02 PM, "Nicholson, Leland" <NicholsonL at fultonschools.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have any Alice 3.1 examples and/or tutorials/lessons on the use of the If?Else? The lessons I used before assumed a primitive Boolean ?wider than?, so any insight on where that went (or is) would be helpful as well.
>
> If there are other repositories of Alice 3.1 tutorials or documentation around, please comment on that as well. I installed 3.1 in my classroom and seem to running into snags with the lessons used previously with Alice 2.
>
> Thank you,
> Lee Nicholson
> CS Teacher
> Alpharetta High School
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