Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Week 4 & 5- Alice

Alice is a free download great for learning how to program. Alice is a 4g world where you can use objects to interact with each other in various ways. I would strongly recommend this program for high school students. A younger student that is computer savvy may use the program, as well.

I consider Alice to my first gaming challenge. Usually, I find a program and have little to no problems figuring out how to use the software. Alice was a tad more difficult.   After searching the web for tutorials and working through the PDF exercises,  I got a better understanding of the features. After I got the features to work, I spent a lot of time trying to make a great video. Before I knew it, the video was almost a minute in length. My only issue was the audio portion of Alice. I was able to find some articles that provided some insight into the issue, but I still had problems. If I spent more time on the project I could have possibly found a way around combating the audio issue.

Alice is a great for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. This  is another cool way to give students a rest from typical assignment submission formats. 

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