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CAUTION: Alice can be Motivating!. By: Julie Briney Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School Gibson City, Illinois. ICE (Illinois Computer Education Conference) Attempted to use Alice Spring 2008. Alice Motivated “ME” enough to………….. SEARCH SEARCH SEARCH. SPIRIT at Purdue University.
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CAUTION: Alice can be Motivating! By: Julie Briney Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School Gibson City, Illinois
ICE (Illinois Computer Education Conference) • Attempted to use Alice Spring 2008
Alice Motivated “ME” enough to………….. • SEARCH • SEARCH • SEARCH
Subject Areas English, Spanish, French, Science, Biology, Physics, Math, History, Art, Industrial Arts Home Ec, Agriculture, There are soooooooo many areas I’m exhausted just naming them!
Special Needs Students Shine when they use Alice to: *Communicate *Show others their successful Worlds * Take pride in the World they developed *Teachers can use Alice to excite students for other subjects
Media &Spread the Word School/Local Newspaper School/Local TV Board of Education
Elementary Alphabet/Numbers Word Wall Words Motivate Subject Areas
Business Classes Political Topics Welcome 8th Graders Beginning Programming
Student Empowerment! Students: Critique/Learn through Peer Evaluation Students Gain Confidence Showing Alice to Class
5th Grade Students Programming Class *Planned & Implemented a beginning lesson with Alice *Each high school student showed the younger students a technique *After the 1st class---HS Students became more confident Empowered-Confident-Team Players-Motivated!
Xpadder 5.3 XBOX controller Uses other controllers too!