NCAECT 2008 Presentation

Thirty seven teachers attended our NCAECT "Alice- the Free, Fun & Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming" class. As Jill Nelson and I presented the teachers seemed enthusiastic and interested in Alice and asked a lot of good questions. Carnegie Mellon donated Alice, animation/video game software, free of charge and it can be download at http://www.alice.org/.

Everyone enjoyed the Prentice Hall book give away. They generously donated 4 Alice text books door prizes.

One question that was discussed was how the students could show their work on the Internet. Alice animation will play on computers that have downloaded Alice. Our student videos were created by the students playing their Alice animations on a Smartboard and using the record feature which records their Alice videos as a avi format. Soon to be released Alice 2.2 will have a record feature built into it. If you can't wait that long I just read an interesting blog at http://segatech.us/ (March 19, 2008) that tells about free online tools for transforming files. I haven't tried them yet but they are located at Media Convert and Zamzar.

Miss Witkowski talks about "Girls and Computers"


Miss Nelson talks about "How Easy Alice is To Learn Programming"