Sunday, December 27, 2009

2010 NCTIES session will be Thursday at 4:45

You are invited to the 2010 NCTIES session "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming which will be on Thursday from 4:45am-5:45 pm in Meeting Room 305B.

Here is a link to the presentation http://learnalice.googlepages.com/AliceNcaect.ppt

Alice is a Free animation/programming software program from Carnegie Mellon. It encourages students especially girls/minorities to learn programming in a fun way by creating animation/video games as they learn concepts. Studies show students using Alice succeed in future programming classes. http://alice.org Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Winner top 3 sessions at 2009 NCTIES!

Elaine Witkowski, Archdale-Trinity Middle School

Jill Elberson, Randleman Middle School

Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12, Other, Universities are also teaching Alice as a pre-computer science class.