Adventures in Alice Programming
Workshop for High School Teachers
South Carolina Summer 2012
What is Alice?
Alice is an object-oriented programming language that is used to create 3-D animations. It has been designed to make object-oriented programming easier to teach and learn and also to attract a larger, more inclusive audience to programming and eventually to careers in a computer field. Teaching Alice in a first computer programming course provides students with a positive experience with computing and programming making these students more likely to choose a computing major and to succeed in their college degree program. Alice is made freely available by its creators at Carnegie Mellon University.
Summer 2012 Workshop Dates:
Teachers may choose to attend either of the following workshops.
•Workshop: June 11 - 15 and June 18 - 20, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
To register to attend either workshop, visit alicesc.eventbrite.com.
Benefits for Attendees:
1. Teachers will be trained in Alice and develop instructional classroom materials.
2. Teachers will receive a certificate of completion for 70 hours of classroom work.
3. On-campus lodging, breakfast and lunch will be provided.
4. Teachers will be paid an $800 stipend for completing the workshop.
5. Alice classroom support will be provided during the 2012-13 academic year.
6. A community of Alice high school teachers in the state of South Carolina
will be developed.
Workshop Format:
Two workshops will be held during summer 2012 to train teachers in Alice and to support teachers
as they develop curricular materials to be used in their own classrooms.
•Week one, Monday - Friday: Alice training
•Week two, Monday - Wednesday: Curricular development
Workshop Follow-Up:
Teachers will meet at College of Charleston for a one-day workshop during the summer of 2013.
For more information, contact:
| RoxAnn H. Stalvey | Madeleine Schep | |
| stalveyr@cofc.edu | mschep@columbiasc.edu | |
| College of Charleston | Columbia College |