You are invited to the 2011 NCTIES session "Alice-the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming which will be on Friday from 12:10pm to 1:10pm in Meeting Room 302A. Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Look at 2008 blog posts for video samples.
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://www.alice.org Bring laptop for hands-on demonstration. Winner top 3 sessions at 2009 NCTIES!
Come early to preview the prizes. Prentice Hall has donated the following books worth over $388 as door prizes:
Starting Out with Alice: A Visual Introduction to Programming (2nd Edition) (Gaddis Series) $ 75.00
Exploring Wonderland: Java Programming Using Alice and Media Computation (Paperback) $119.00 by Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Barbara Ericson
Learning to Program with Alice (2nd Edition) $79.00 by Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Randy Pausch
Programming with Alice and Java $113 by John Lewis and Peter Depasquale
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.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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.
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.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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)
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)
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)
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)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
ATMS Technology Club in Local Newspaper
The Archdale-Trinity News ran the front page article "ATMS Students Create Ideas In Animation" on May 22. The article talks about a guest speaker, Doctor Dobson, who created the game, Snood, how the students helped create the NCAECT presentation (see earlier blog entries for student videos), and how I will be going to Duke University during the summer to learn more about Alice, the object-oriented free software program for an animation and video game introduction to programming, at the "Adventures in Alice" workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
What was really cool happened after the article went to press. I found out that a representative of DPI, Department of Public Instruction, liked what he saw and will be attending the Duke University workshop to see if there is a way to add a middle school pre-programming class to the NC curriculum.
What was really cool happened after the article went to press. I found out that a representative of DPI, Department of Public Instruction, liked what he saw and will be attending the Duke University workshop to see if there is a way to add a middle school pre-programming class to the NC curriculum.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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"
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Creating in a new world
Aaron is creating a new world using animation.
(Note- Parental release is on file allowing Aaron to share his creativity)
Aaron may also be creating in a new world when he graduates from college in 2016. I read Marc Prensky's article "Programming: The New Literacy" in February's Edutopia magazine and agreed with his premise that in the near future literate adults will need to know how to program to some degree.
He provides many examples supporting his claim. One of his most compelling examples was when he explained that back in the Middle Ages when there were only a few literate people who knew how to read people had to hire people to write letters for them and to read letter to them. Today many people hire Geek Squads to install and show them how to use their new electronic devices.
I have read several articles which point to an increased emphasis on programming in the future. The video game industry made more money than the motion picture industry last year. Homeland Security and the Armed Forces are using video games to train their employees/soldiers. The iphone's success and the placement of electronics in our cars and homes all signal a need to understand a minimal amount of programming.
The free Alice software donated by Carnegie Mellon University is a fun and easy way to start you journey into the programming world.
(Note- Parental release is on file allowing Aaron to share his creativity)
Aaron may also be creating in a new world when he graduates from college in 2016. I read Marc Prensky's article "Programming: The New Literacy" in February's Edutopia magazine and agreed with his premise that in the near future literate adults will need to know how to program to some degree.
He provides many examples supporting his claim. One of his most compelling examples was when he explained that back in the Middle Ages when there were only a few literate people who knew how to read people had to hire people to write letters for them and to read letter to them. Today many people hire Geek Squads to install and show them how to use their new electronic devices.
I have read several articles which point to an increased emphasis on programming in the future. The video game industry made more money than the motion picture industry last year. Homeland Security and the Armed Forces are using video games to train their employees/soldiers. The iphone's success and the placement of electronics in our cars and homes all signal a need to understand a minimal amount of programming.
The free Alice software donated by Carnegie Mellon University is a fun and easy way to start you journey into the programming world.
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