alice-teacher Alice Team Updates and Calls to Action

[Diane Keller]

Eric,
Let me know how to proceed to help with the beta test and other projects.

Diane

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:06 PM Eric Brown <ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I hope this finds everyone off to a great start to the school year.  I
> wanted to post several updates and make a couple community requests.  It
> has been a while so there a bunch of items but please take a second to read
> through * mark the most import community requests.
>
> 1.  Alice Challenge Updates - We have posted all of our template materials
> from our inaugural event that can be used as a blueprint for anyone wanting
> to host a challenge (https://www.alice.org/alicechallenge/).  We are also
> here to help anyone who wants to try to host one in another region.  We
> will be hosting another challenge in Pittsburgh area this year so please
> check back as we update training opportunities and dates around the
> challenge.
>
> * We have an amazing high school student who wants to run an Alice
> challenge in the LA area.  She is in Ventura County where she got a grant
> and ran a summer camp for girls (
> https://www.theacorn.com/articles/these-are-the-girls-who-code/).  If
> anyone on this list is in the LA area and would like to help her or would
> want to broaden her initiative to other districts please contact us.  I
> would love to help her in any way we can.
>
> 2.  Curriculum Materials - We have added and updated a bunch of lessons
> for Alice 3.  Definitely take a look and see if there is anything new that
> would be useful to you or your students.  If you are already using these
> you may want to check to see if new version have been posted. (
> https://www.alice.org/resources/alice-3-lessons/).
>
> *As always we are eager to hear from you if you are using these materials
> with any comments, suggestions, or with assessment or exercise materials
> you have paired with them so that we can share them out with the
> community.  Please contact us if you want to share feedback or help us
> review and expand the materials.
>
> 3.  Technical Development - We had hoped to release a new version of Alice
> in time for the new school year however our release has been delayed due to
> our desire to finally release the model import pipeline.  This development
> is approaching completion but will need significant QA.  We do plan to
> release it in Beta this fall.  We have also gained a lot of momentum
> towards our external Alice player to allow sharing of worlds outside of the
> Alice IDE.  This is also our first step towards us publishing to VR/AR.  We
> have engaged Filament Games to help accelerate our work and they have been
> great to work with.  More to come soon,
>
> * If you would be interested in beta testing a model import version of
> Alice with a 3D modeling class please reach out to us.
>
> As always we are grateful for your support and appreciate all of your
> support for each other.  We continue to try to improve your experience with
> Alice.  Your feedback is what helps us do that so don’t be shy.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric
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Diane Keller
Carroll High School
4524 Linden Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45432
937-253-8188
http://www.carrollhs.org
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