alice-teacher Alice on Chrome Books? (Marcia Viqueira)

[Garth Flint]

I love the "without teacher input". There nice Windows laptops for the same
price. I am the IT guy for my school. I said no Chrome books because I did
not want to pay for a free browser and be so limited.

Garth Flint

On Sep 12, 2016 12:29 PM, "Karen Vitek via alice-teachers" <
alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> I just want to add that even though my district is purchasing Chromebooks
> for students (without teacher input) I will not be using them in my
> classroom because they are so limiting. I also teach AP Computer Science
> (DrJava, BlueJ, etc.) and Chromebooks would not work for that class. They
> are cheap devices that districts feel will get them to a 1 to 1 environment
> inexpensively at the startup but for the long haul may not be so
> inexpensive.
>
> Karen A. Vitek
>
> Computer Science Teacher
> Spackenkill High School
> 112 Spackenkill Road
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
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> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:25:51 -0400
> From: Marcia Viqueira <marcia.viqueira at gmail.com>
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: alice-teacher Alice on Chrome Books?
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> Hello,
> Would Alice 2 or 3 work on a Chrome Book?  My school is purchasing a set
> and it might be easier than reserving space in the computer lab.
> Thank you,
> Marcia
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> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:24:57 -0400
> From: Don Slater <don at alice.org>
> To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher Alice on Chrome Books?
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> Marcia,
> Alice does not currently run the Chromebook or on on any mobile devices?
> It would be better to think of Alice as a development environment which may
> someday include the ability to develop apps for mobile devices (currently
> you can develop videos. but not games, which do run on mobile devices).
>
> We do revisit the idea of creating a mobile version of Alice, and are open
> to the possibility, but there will not be such a version in the immediate
> future.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Entertainment Technology Center
> 700 Technology Drive
> Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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> Email: dslater at cmu.edu
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> On Sep 11, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Marcia Viqueira via alice-teachers <
> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
> Would Alice 2 or 3 work on a Chrome Book?  My school is purchasing a set
> and it might be easier than reserving space in the computer lab.
> Thank you,
> Marcia
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