alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 43, Issue 6
Kathleen Dasho
kdasho at north-reading.k12.ma.us
Sat Feb 8 17:29:16 EST 2014
I'm a middle school technology teacher and have been teaching Alice for
about 7 years now. I teach Scratch in 6th, Alice in 7th and Star logo in
8th along with Lego robots programming.
I have 7th grade complete the tutorials first, then
I give quick demo on Smartboard. After that I give
Assignment, and let them work in pairs.
Assignment is to retell a greek myth with alice.
Most come out very well, Im thinking of having
Them try a book report or summarize the story
K. Dasho
North Reading Middle
North Reading, MA
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> 1. Re: help (Karen Hirschy)
> 2. What's the most effective way to teach Alice? (Kelly Cockrell)
> 3. Re: What's the most effective way to teach Alice?
> (Bryant Lazenby)
> 4. Re: What's the most effective way to teach Alice?
> (Ron Guillemette)
> 5. Re: What's the most effective way to teach Alice?
> (Elizabeth Mirecki)
> 6. Re: What's the most effective way to teach Alice? (Lori Fuller)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:35:23 +0000
> From: Karen Hirschy <KHIRSCHY at sacs.k12.in.us>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher help
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> Cindy,
> The online version I used was slightly different from the students version
> on their computers. I wonder if that could be your issue too.
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> Karen
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> I have been using Matt Wisan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSrVQRS2sQto learn to program in Alice 3.1 collisions with properties. At 4:10
> minutes he stats the process of creating properties . My version 3.1
> doesn't match his. I found properties under the button to the left of the
> Scene tab. The property box matches. After I created the property according
> to Matt's example, the property was not created but the procedure
> setWitchTurn was created. I could drag the procedure into the proper places
> of the addKeyPressListner. The setWitchTurn will not drag into the Boolean
> section of the If Else statement that is inside the collision Started.
> How do I fix that?
> Cindy Heller
> Bellmont High School
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> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:09:07 -0800
> From: Kelly Cockrell <kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org>
> Subject: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach Alice?
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> Hi there:
>
> I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.
>
> I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
> teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do
> you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do
> they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what
> they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?
>
> Any information is very much appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Kelly Cockrell
> Computer Science and Technology Teacher
> The Meadows School
> Las Vegas, NV 89128
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> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 00:01:54 +0000
> From: Bryant Lazenby <lazenbyb at Sedalia.k12.mo.us>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach
> Alice?
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> I am interested in this information as well. Currently, my high schoolers
> work through Alice as an independent study course. But I would like to know
> what everyone else does as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryant Lazenby
>
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> On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:37 PM, "Kelly Cockrell" <
> kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org<mailto:kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi there:
>
> I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.
>
> I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
> teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study? Do
> you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do
> they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what
> they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?
>
> Any information is very much appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Kelly Cockrell
> Computer Science and Technology Teacher
> The Meadows School
> Las Vegas, NV 89128
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> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:31:10 -0500
> From: Ron Guillemette <rgilmet123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach
> Alice?
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> Kelly,
>
> I teach at the high school level at a Career & Tech Center. This is my
> first year using Alice. What I have been doing is to work through the
> examples in the book and use some of the online tutorials together. I then
> have them do the same examples on their own. Finallly they work through
> the projects in the book. In the spirit of the open source nature of Alice
> I have those who want to walk through their projects present them to the
> class. We share them out on a shared network drive.
>
> Student do work collaboratively to figure out problems they encounter
> during the programming phase of the projects. Student must include all the
> elements of the problem description but are free to enhance the project. I
> have found that student are very proud to share their work. I make sure as
> I walk around and check progress that I tell different kids how great
> certain elements or their programming are and ask them to share these with
> the class.
>
> I also focus on vocabulary. I make sure that when we speak we speak and
> act professionally. I want them to act like programmers who constantly
> develop and improve their products.
>
> I can's say enough how this has made my classroom more of a community of
> learners. I am having so much fun teaching Alice.
>
> Ron
>
> Mr. Guillemette
>
> Computer Technology and Game Design
> The Regional Career & Tech Center @ Coventry High
> 40 Reservoir Road, Coventry, RI 02816
> 401-822-9499 ext 287
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>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Kelly Cockrell <
> kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi there:
> >
> > I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.
> >
> > I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
> > teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study?
> Do
> > you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do
> > they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what
> > they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?
> >
> > Any information is very much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Kelly Cockrell
> > Computer Science and Technology Teacher
> > The Meadows School
> > Las Vegas, NV 89128
> >
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> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:51:24 -0500
> From: Elizabeth Mirecki <elizabeth.mirecki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach
> Alice?
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> I use Alice with grades 7,8, & 9.
>
> In grade 7 I use various tutorials, some self created, a lot from Duke U,
> and some from CMU workshops and textbook. They work through the tutorials
> as self study with me there to answer questions, point out CS concepts etc.
> After they have completed a 4 part Princess and Dragon story, they begin to
> create stories of their own, writing story boards and pseudo code. After
> that they return to the tutorials to learn specific topics like functions,
> changing scenes, etc. Then another create your own project incorporating
> those newly learned objectives.
>
> Sometimes it can get quite chaotic with 20 students all of different levels
> of competency and pace, but I get better results when I don't drag them
> along or slow them down. It also allows for customization within the same
> concepts. I use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of everything.
>
> Once the student is in 8th grade, we continue to build off of what we
> learned in Alice the previous year. Now the tutorials and projects are
> bigger and more complex.
>
> In 9th grade we switch over to Alice 3. Here again I use a combination of
> self study and directed study. Once we switch over and introduce Netbeans
> and Java it becomes more directed.
>
>
> On Friday, February 7, 2014, Bryant Lazenby <lazenbyb at sedalia.k12.mo.us>
> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in this information as well. Currently, my high
> > schoolers work through Alice as an independent study course. But I would
> > like to know what everyone else does as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryant Lazenby
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:37 PM, "Kelly Cockrell" <
> > kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','
> kcockrell at themeadowsschool.org');>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi there:
> >
> > I teach Alice to 7th graders as part of a computer coding class.
> >
> > I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
> > teach with Alice. Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study?
> Do
> > you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart board? Do
> > they go through a lesson and then create a demonstrative world of what
> > they have learned? What have you found to be the most effective?
> >
> > Any information is very much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Kelly Cockrell
> > Computer Science and Technology Teacher
> > The Meadows School
> > Las Vegas, NV 89128
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> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:50:56 -0500
> From: "Lori Fuller" <lori.fuller at browardschools.com>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach
> Alice?
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> Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on February 7, 2014
> at 4:09 PM -0500 wrote:
> >I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
> >teach with Alice. ?Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study?
> >?Do you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart
> >board? ?Do they ?go through a lesson and then create ?a demonstrative
> >world of what they have learned? ? ?What have you found to be the most
> >effective?
>
> I am teaching Alice through our 9th grade Game Simulation Programming
> Foundations course. It is actually recommended by the state on the
> standards for the course.
> I am taking from many resources at the moment to find lessons for the
> students. We do use step-by-step lessons along with finding scenarios to
> go along with the major concepts being presented in the step by step. I
> usually try to add a twist to it. I do not have a smart board, but I do on
> occasion use a digital projector. I have Camtasia to help with some of the
> lessons, and I have used Screencast and Jing. Most of the time I put the
> video lessons in an accessible server folder since they don't play well
> over our network.
>
> The videos are very effective tools, however, I found the students relied
> more on my step-by-step instructions more than them thinking through the
> problems and figuring it out for themselves up to a point. I will be
> working on that for next year.
>
> I am also up for suggestions and resources to help with teaching
> programming using Alice. Next level course, I am planning on using Alice 3.
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Lori Fuller, M.Ed.
> Monarch High School
> Career Technology Department Head
> Technology Coordinator
> Asst. Athletic Director
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