The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is proud to host an Introduction to Scratch and Alice workshop on Saturday, Sept 11, 2010 from 8:00am - 4:30pm at Georgia Tech. The workshop will take place in the College of Computing, room 345 (Directions to the College of Computing Building). Teachers must attend the entire workshop and submit both a Scratch and Alice project for credit. All teachers must register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KNQVXWH. Georgia public school teachers must also register at http://www.ctaern.org for workshop CTAERN3079.

Teachers will build a 2D animation and a game in Scratch and 3D movies (animations) in Alice. Teachers will use drag-and-drop programming. Both Scratch and Alice are free software. Scratch is available from http://scratch.mit.edu and Alice from http://www.alice.org. The workshop will explain how to cover introductory computing concepts such as: class, object, method, parameter, function, variable, iteration (looping), conditional execution, and event-driven execution. Each teacher will receive materials including slides, exercises, lesson plans, and grading rubrics. This material can be used in Technology, Computing in the Modern World, Beginning Programming, or AP CS A.

This workshop is free for Georgia teachers, and if you live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech we will pay for your hotel for Friday night (2 teachers per room), Friday night dinner, and Sat breakfast. If you would prefer a private room you can pay 1/2 the hotel cost. We will cover parking for Georgia teachers who stay at the hotel and reimburse parking for Georgia teachers who do not stay at the hotel. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.

Teachers will learn how to teach:

• Objects and classes
• loops
• conditionals
• variables
• event-driven programming
• methods and parameters

Out-of-state teachers pay $140. Checks for $140.00 should be made out to Georgia Institute of Technology and sent to:

Feliicia Auzla
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280

Her e-mail is fazula@cc.gatech.edu. Her phone is 404-894-6858.

Tenative agenda:

8:00am - 8:15am Introductions
8:15am - 9:00am Getting started in Scratch
9:00am - 11:00am Creating a game in Scratch
11:00am - 12:00pm Getting started in Alice 2.2 - objects, classes, methods, and parameters
12:00pm - 12:30pm lunch
12:30pm - 1:30pm Alice Tips and Techniques
1:30pm - 3:30pm Loops and Conditionals in Alice
3:30pm - 4:15pm Handling events in Alice and variables
4:15pm -4:30pm Surveys