Thursday, February 26, 2009

NCTIES 2009- Alice Presentation Survey

Thank you for coming to our "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming presentation! Your feedback is important to use. Please take this very short survey so we can improve our presentation. Thank you for your assistance!

NCTIES 2009- Alice Presentation Survey

NCTIES-Why come to Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming

The "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming will be on Thursday from 11:45am-12:30pm in Meeting Room 301A.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Here is a sample of what Alice can do.

Here is Owen, a 7th grade student, talking about an Alice game he created.
(A permission form is on file for his interview to be on the Internet)

video

Description from the NCTIES program: Alice is a Free animation/programming software program donated by Carnegie Mellon University. It encourages students especially girls and minorities to learn programming in a fun way by creating animation and/or video games as they learn concepts. Studies show students using Alice continue and succeed in future programming classes. http://alice.org Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Elaine Witkowski, Archdale-Trinity Middle School Jill Elberson, Randleman Middle School Target Audience: Middle, High, K-12, Other, Universities are also teaching Alice as a pre-computer science class. Strand: Increasing Student Interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)