Barbara Conover asked me to announce this workshop on my blog so here goes:
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Summer 2007 Workshops
. Learning to Program with Alice
. Alice and Media Computation
Registration Deadline: May 1, 2007
(The workshops are free!)
Led by the experts:
And funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, these workshops are designed and particularly appropriate for instructors wishing to:
- Decrease the attrition among computer science students
- Attract students into computer science
- Provide a programming component for a computer literacy course
- Aid in AP CS courses
Two three (3) day workshops will be offered on the teaching of Alice and Media Computation together in a CS1 course:
- July 26-28 on the campus of Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
- August 1-3 on the campus of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
This workshop will include (approximately) 1 ½ days of instruction in Alice; 1 day instruction in Media Computation; and ½ day instruction on combining the two for teaching CS1.
Learning to Program with Alice workshop will be offered August 8-10 on the campus of California State University, in Dominguez Hills, California. Workshop will include:
- Introduction/review of the Alice environment
- Scene set-up
- Programming constructs, including objects and classes
- Teaching tips
- Curricular models
- Instructional materials
- Transitioning to Java/C++
- Alice in an existing CS curriculum
- Arrays and Lists (Visual and Non-Visual)
- Sound
- Camera control
All workshop materials will be provided. For more details concerning accommodations for each workshop, please visit:
If you would like to attend, please fill out and submit the form below. Please note that these workshops are completely free of charge.
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