alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 34, Issue 16
Damon, Susan
sdamon at orangeusd.org
Thu May 23 16:41:41 EDT 2013
As long as the students have some vision, it's possible. However, if the students are legally blind, which was my case, Braille readers, etc. cannot read the animations and have a very hard time reading the code in the editing window. In this case, the software is not a good fit because the student needs to see the animation.
If anybody has figured out a fix to this, I am VERY interested. We have a small population of extremely bright legally blind students who are fully mainstreamed in regular and honors classes. They want to learn how to program, but can't take my classes because I use Alice which doesn't support supportive devices.
Susan Damon
Business and DREAM Video Game Development Teacher
Department Chair, FBLA Advisor, CHS Webmaster
Canyon High School
Orange Unified School District
220 S. Imperial Hwy
Anaheim, CA 92807
(714) 532-8000
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:16 +0000
From: Daniela Marghitu <MARGHDA at auburn.edu>
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Hello,
I taught Alice to children with low vision. Actually I will have in July 5 students with low vision in my CS4All-Girls two residential camps.
Please feel free to contact me if you think I can further help.
Best wishes,
Dr. Daniela Marghitu
http://eng.auburn.edu/users/marghda
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>> Have anyone tried to implement ALICE with the visually impaired ? I teach Science to the visually impaired.
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>> If I want to teach my own personal children about programming (14yr. old triplets and a 16 year old) Is ALICE a good start? Where do I begin? Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:39:35 -0700
From: Susan Rivas <susanmrivas at gmail.com>
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I recommend the scrollable mouse with magnification for the visually
impaired so that they can use those features simultaneously. I taught a boy
who was visually impaired, (he was also extremely bright), and he was quite
successful doing programming in Alice.
Hope that helps.
Take care,
Susan Rivas
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> Have anyone tried to implement ALICE with the visually impaired ? I teach
> Science to the visually impaired.****
> ** **
> If I want to teach my own personal children about programming (14yr. old
> triplets and a 16 year old) Is ALICE a good start? Where do I begin?
> Thanks.****
> Connie****
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:21:43 -0400
From: Kathleen Dasho <kdasho at north-reading.k12.ma.us>
Subject: Re: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15
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Yes, I have taught Alice to visually impaired students. We use a program
called Zoomtext
that zooms the screen.
They did fine.
Regards,
Kathy Dasho
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