alice-teacher Several Workshops/Events at Duke this summer. Apply Now.

[Susan Rodger]

We will be running several workshops and events for K-12 teachers at 
Duke University this summer related to Alice Programming or App Inventor
Programming. One special event will be our Fourth Alice Symposium.  

For more information or to apply to any of these four workshops/events: 

  http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/web/alice/aliceInSchools

If you previously attended our Alice Beginner workshop, please encourage
other teachers at your school to apply. 

Here is more detail on the four workshop/events. 

1) Alice Symposium - June 20, 2017

 On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 we will hold our fourth annual Alice
 Symposium. We wil have several invited speakers and have presentations and
 posters from teachers who have attended our previous Alice Symposium. The
 Symposium is tentatively set to run 8:30am to 5pm.

We invite all K-12 teachers to attend, especially those who have attended
one of our previous Alice workshops in NC or SC. 


2) Alice2 to Alice3 Workshop - June 21, 2017

Following the Alice Symposium on Wednesday, June 21, the Alice CMU team
will run a workshop on transitioning from Alice2 to Alice3.

We invite all K-12 teachers to attend, especially those who have attended
one of our previous Alice workshops in NC or SC. 

3) TWO-WEEK BEGINNER ALICE WORKSHOP - JUNE 19-28, 2017 at Duke University

Middle school and high school teachers, apply now for a two-week summer
workshop to learn how to create Alice Virtual Worlds and to integrate them
into many disciplines. This is a free workshop with funds for lodging and a
small stipend. Continuing education credits are also provided.  Preference
is given to NC teachers, though we always include a few teachers from other
states.

The two-week workshop will be held June 19-28, 2017 (everyday, 
noon start on Sunday ) at Duke University. 

Applications are now available on our website.  The deadline to apply is
March 27, 2017, but applications will be considered after that date if
space is available.

The workshop is for middle and high school teachers of all disciplines to
learn programming using the Alice programming environment and to determine
how to integrate Alice into their discipline. Examples of integration
include 1) creating Alice worlds for presentations, 2) creating interactive
Alice worlds for students to use to learn concepts, 3) for students to
create an Alice world for a project, or 4) for students to use Alice for
problem solving.  In addition to Alice instruction, teachers will have time
to experiment with concepts learned and time to develop lesson plans
integrating Alice into their discipline.


4) Not an Alice workshop, but we will be running a three-day Beginner App
Inventor workshop July 17-19, 2017 at Duke University in Durham, NC.

Thanks to funding from IBM, this workshop is free for K-12 teachers,
includes lodging for teachers not in driving distance, include free
breakfast and lunch, free parking and contact hours for CEU credits.

This hands-on workshop for teachers enables participants to utilize
Computer Science principles by creating mobile apps for the Android
platform using App Inventor, a free visual blocks-based programming
environment. We will be exploring curricular modules that use mobile app
programming to teach Computer Science principles and mobile computing
design concepts. We will utilize and create online materials that can be
used to provide your students more in-class time to engage in active
learning by creating powerful mobile apps in a problem based learning
environment. 

See our website for more information and to apply. 

  http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/web/alice/aliceInSchools


Susan Rodger
Duke University