alice-teacher Alice 3 Positioning of objects problem

[Don Slater]

This is interesting to us… If anyone else is seeing this, please let us know… It would also help if you could report type of machine and OS with any reports…

Thank you,
Don Slater

On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Margaret Meijers <mmeijers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I teach Alice online to primary school students from many different schools, and I am starting to think there may be an issue with positioning of objects, but I'm not sure quite where the problem lies.   The issue has occurred a number of times with students from a couple of different schools.  At first I thought it was the kids positioning objects poorly, but I'm starting to get suspicious that it's related to different computers and versions of Alice perhaps?
> 
> What happens is that students (probably using a different version of Alice 3 to me) make an animation (they are very much beginners) and they send it to me for assessment.  
> But for a while I have been suspicious that they are not seeing what I am seeing as, frequently, objects seem to be positioned very poorly.  I have attached an example, both the alice program, and screen captures of what I see.  In the screen capture, the small thumbnail is from the Recent category in File >Open and it looks ok, but when I open the animation, the shark is sitting below the sand.  Other objects (eg the fish) that appear later in the animation are in the correct place (or where I assume the student placed it).
> I have opened the animation on two different computers (one running V3.1.81, the other V3.1.77), and I see the same thing on both computers.  
> 
> So my questions:  Is there something obvious that I am missing?  Are the students doing something?  Is it possible that it's a versioning issue? 
> 
> Thanks
> Margaret
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