alice-teacher Different styles using Alice

[Deane Fistick]

Thanks for the insight on the "categories" of student interest/approach Leonel.  In my HS classes I also seem to have a "special" few (small percentage) that work very hard to achieve all 3 of those challenges in their programs. 

Mr. Deane Fistick
Electronic Classroom Of Tomorrow (ECOT)
HS Computer Programming Teacher
1-888-326-8395 ext. 3640
deane.fistick at ecotoh.org



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From: alice-teachers-bounces+deane.fistick=ecotoh.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+deane.fistick=ecotoh.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Leonel Morales
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:27 PM
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Subject: alice-teacher Different styles using Alice

Hi,

Today I went to a school to do a workshop with a group of 20 middle school students using Alice.

As usual at some point they lost attention in my explanations and started experimenting and creating on their own (I enjoy that part).

Afterwards I reflected on what I saw and found that kids liked to do one of the following:

-Design a scene: kids in this group liked to bring lots of characters and objects to the scene without worrying much about making them do something. The new starters available in v.3.2 are great for them.

-Dialogues: put a couple of characters in the scene with some objects and make them talk and perform some limited action. A couple of girls made this type of stories putting dolphins with a cake in the ocean and pretend they were celebrating a birthday party, and they laughed a lot watching the scene and making the dolphins say something.

-Complex movements: these kids used simple scenes with one or two characters and worked hard to make them perform complex movements even using the joints.

-Instruction follow: kids wanting to make an animation that looked exactly like the one being projected.

I will have a second session with them on Friday and plan to propose them challenges addressing each of these "modes".

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Leonel
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