alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2

Don Slater don at alice.org
Wed Mar 2 16:22:15 EST 2016


Would he be willing to send us a working copy of the world, and a description of which other events he is trying to add?

Thank you,
Don Slater

Alice Team
Carnegie Mellon University
Entertainment Technology Center
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Email: dslater at cmu.edu

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--- Henry David Thoreau

The true object of all human life is play. -- G.K. Chesterton


> On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Nisanti Wilmot via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> One of my students has created a game with several event listeners including collision listeners and proximity listeners. But if he tries to add any additional code to his program, he gets the Bug Report message. This is happening with Alice 3.2. Are there any fixes or workarounds for this issue?
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>    1. Re:  Cannot upload audio file (Donald Slater)
>    2.  re  tutorial  3  for  Alice 2.2 (Lee, Yvonne)
>    3. Re:  re  tutorial  3  for  Alice 2.2 (Donald Slater)
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:23:02 -0500
> From: Donald Slater <dslater+ at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dslater%2B at andrew.cmu.edu>>
> To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Cannot upload audio file
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> This is a known problem with Alice 3 right now, and we are working on a fix? Unfortunately I do not have a good workaround att his time?
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> Sorry,
> Don Slater
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> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Heidi Kunselman via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > Don
> >  One of my students is having an issue with  trying to upload an audio file to run with their program. Whenever he drags the play audio into the editing window the program freezes. We quickly see the file window and then it dissapears. We don?t even have the opportunity to navigate to the audio file. I?m having the same problem when I try to import it into the resource manager. I have attached the program file. We are running on mac maverick operating system 10.9.3. And alice 3.2.5.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Heidi Kunselman
> > Technology Teacher
> > Oak Prairie Junior High
> >
> > ?Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
> > indeed it is the only thing that ever has.?
> >     -Margaret Mead
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> From: "Lee, Yvonne" <Yvonne.Lee at tdsb.on.ca <mailto:Yvonne.Lee at tdsb.on.ca>>
> To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
> Subject: alice-teacher re  tutorial  3  for  Alice 2.2
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> Hi don.  all of my students  are  not able to complete the 4th  tutorial  which stops  at the 17  of  34th   instructions....
> please advise.
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> Yvonne Lee, Hon. B.A., OCT
> Thistletown  C.I.
> Toronto District School Board
> 40 Fordwich Crescent
> Toronto Ontario
> M9W 2T4
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> Phone 416 394 7710 <tel:416%20394%207710>
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> Why Wait, Just Do It.
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> From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+yvonne.lee=tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>] on behalf of Donald Slater via alice-teachers [alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 9:23 AM
> To: Alice Teachers
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Cannot upload audio file
> 
> This is a known problem with Alice 3 right now, and we are working on a fix? Unfortunately I do not have a good workaround att his time?
> 
> Sorry,
> Don Slater
> 
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Heidi Kunselman via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu><mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>> wrote:
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> Don
>  One of my students is having an issue with  trying to upload an audio file to run with their program. Whenever he drags the play audio into the editing window the program freezes. We quickly see the file window and then it dissapears. We don?t even have the opportunity to navigate to the audio file. I?m having the same problem when I try to import it into the resource manager. I have attached the program file. We are running on mac maverick operating system 10.9.3. And alice 3.2.5.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Heidi Kunselman
> Technology Teacher
> Oak Prairie Junior High
> 
> ?Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
> indeed it is the only thing that ever has.?
>     -Margaret Mead
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:36:33 -0500
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> Subject: Re: alice-teacher re  tutorial  3  for  Alice 2.2
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> This is a problem that hopefully will be fixed in the next release? The next time they run into this problem, have them click on the next button at the top of the tutorial, in most cases this allows students complete the tutorial?
> 
> Keep us posted...
> 
> All the best,
> Don Slater
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> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Lee, Yvonne via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi don.  all of my students  are  not able to complete the 4th  tutorial  which stops  at the 17  of  34th   instructions....
> > please advise.
> >
> >
> > Yvonne Lee, Hon. B.A., OCT
> > Thistletown  C.I.
> > Toronto District School Board
> > 40 Fordwich Crescent
> > Toronto Ontario
> > M9W 2T4
> >
> > Phone 416 394 7710 <tel:416%20394%207710>
> > Fax     416-394 7726 <tel:416-394%207726>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Why Wait, Just Do It.
> > From: alice-teachers [alice-teachers-bounces+yvonne.lee=tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> <mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+yvonne.lee <mailto:alice-teachers-bounces%2Byvonne.lee>=tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:tdsb.on.ca at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>] on behalf of Donald Slater via alice-teachers [alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 9:23 AM
> > To: Alice Teachers
> > Subject: Re: alice-teacher Cannot upload audio file
> >
> > This is a known problem with Alice 3 right now, and we are working on a fix? Unfortunately I do not have a good workaround att his time?
> >
> > Sorry,
> > Don Slater
> >
> >> On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Heidi Kunselman via alice-teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Don
> >>  One of my students is having an issue with  trying to upload an audio file to run with their program. Whenever he drags the play audio into the editing window the program freezes. We quickly see the file window and then it dissapears. We don?t even have the opportunity to navigate to the audio file. I?m having the same problem when I try to import it into the resource manager. I have attached the program file. We are running on mac maverick operating system 10.9.3. And alice 3.2.5.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated,
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Heidi Kunselman
> >> Technology Teacher
> >> Oak Prairie Junior High
> >>
> >> ?Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
> >> indeed it is the only thing that ever has.?
> >>     -Margaret Mead
> >> <GerritsenPsa3.a3p>_______________________________________________
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