alice-teacher Different styles using Alice

[Tamara Mazza]

I just need a course with a certificate to prove to my school that I have
taken some type of training in Alice.  I am not in a position to attend a
course once the summer starts as I have little ones at home.  I would
really love a virtual course that can be done over any period of time with
a certificate at the end to prove that I did take a course.  I have found
two online courses but I have had no one state that they ever took them
before or if they are good.  I teach Middle School and believe over the
next year I will be moved into the high school.  I currently spend 2 weeks
in Alice for 6-8 grade.




On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Deane Fistick <deane.fistick at ecotoh.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Alice educators
> 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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