alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 84, Issue 7

[Marilynn Huret]

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Our district purchased Chrome books for the students and IMHO it is a waste of $$$ since an adequate PC (Dell) can be had for $129 (retail). The bigger problem is the IT departments being overwhelmed with issues where the students have tried to adapt and modify them them to other software and the parents who are clueless calling the schools for help.

Has anyone tried running Alice using flash drives?

-=mh=-
marilynn huret
mhuret at mindspring.com

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>   1. Re:  Google Chrome Book (Dean Cristol)
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>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:16:43 -0400
>From: Dean Cristol <dcristol123 at gmail.com>
>To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Google Chrome Book
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>Keith:
>Thanks for the suggestion, when you try this workaround, can you please
>tell me if it works?
>Dean
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>On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Keith Golebie <kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us>
>wrote:
>
>> I am having the same issue - i agree that Alice is the best tool for this,
>> and am trying a work-around for Chromebooks.
>>
>> You can run Linux on a Chromebbok with tools like Crouton -
>>
>> https://www.lifewire.com/install-linux-on-chromebook-4125253
>>
>> - and then should be able to run Alice 2 or 3 from there. My high school
>> also just issued Chromebooks to every student. Fortunately, the computer
>> labs are still PCs and MACs, so we are OK in school. To be honest, I
>> haven't tried this yet, but have spoken to several who have, and plan to
>> try this solution this week.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> Mr. Golebie
>>
>> kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us
>>
>> Computer Technology Teacher
>>
>> Rm 201 & 202
>>
>> Lincoln High School
>>
>> Ellwood City Area School District
>>
>> Ellwood City PA  16117
>>
>> 724-752-1591 x3202 <(724)%20752-1591>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mr. Golebie
>>
>> kgolebie at ellwood.k12.pa.us
>>
>> Computer Technology Teacher
>>
>> Rm 201 & 202
>>
>> Lincoln High School
>>
>> Ellwood City Area School District
>>
>> Ellwood City PA  16117
>>
>> 724-752-1591 x3202 <(724)%20752-1591>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Dean Cristol <dcristol123 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Many of the schools I work with have or about to purchase Google Chrome
>>> Books . For those of us who work in higher education and work with PK-12
>>> schools, there has been a dramatic shift in hardware to Chrome Books.
>>>
>>> Does  anyone know a work around to get Alice downloaded on Chrome Books?
>>> I spoke to a couple of my contacts at Google and they say I should use
>>> their products found in Coding with Chrome
>>> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coding-with-chrome/becloognjehhioodmnimnehjcibkloed?hl=en-US> which
>>> is fine, but I think Alice is the best program to get teachers and students
>>> interested in programming.
>>>
>>> Dean Cristol
>>> Ohio State University
>>>
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