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.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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)
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