Glimpses of ALICE Training at KV CLRI, Chennai for PGT( Maths) Teachers

Java error while starting Alice3 - Solution

I have faced the following problem when I tried to run Alice 3 in one computer running Windows XP at one of the venues where I conducted the workshop. I am sharing it as it may be helpful to some of our friends who might have faced same problem.

Problem: 
When you double click on the Alice 3 shortcut, a command window opens saying "java isn't recognized as a internal or external command, operable program or batch file" install java.

Solution: 
Right click on My Computer select properties and click on Advanced tab.
You will find a button environment variables at the bottom. Click on it and under system variable edit path variable to add the path to the bin directory under java folder (eg. C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin). Do not remove the other values in the path variable box, just add this at the end after the last semi colon ( ; )
The same may happen in Windows Vista and 7 and the solution is the same.

GSWA KV No.1 Mangalore and KV Kanjikode

GSWA was conducted at the Inservice Courses for TGT Science at KV Kanjikode (23 participants and 4 resource persons attended) and TGT Maths at KV No.1 Mangalore (32 participants and 2 resource persons attended).

The experience was wonderful. Participants at both venues enjoyed 'playing' with Alice, though they were a little bit skeptical about whether they will be able to continue after the workshop. 

Animation created by one of the participants Mr. Vijay Kumar, TGT Maths KV Surya Lanka, Guntur. He has used a procedure swim as shown below. A simple procedure, but he has used the concepts of procedure, vehicle, do together, camera etc. effectively for a beginner.

The next one was made by Mr. Murthy, KV Kanchanbagh. He has used a very simple procedure to make this group Mass PT, the idea which all liked and successfully made in to a variety of animations.

More practice would have helped the participants at both venues to learn more.

GSWA - LUCKNOW REGION

To expose the participants to the latest trends in use of ICT and with a focus to use it in the class rooms and integrate ALICE for the  Assessment of FA2/FA4

 

GSWA – AT K.V.IIM LKO 

TGT (Eng.) 29-12-2012

Making Simple Animations with Actors

Add animals, people, and objects, and define simple and complex behaviors, Work with parts of characters and people to create realistic animations, Use counters and loops and evaluate expressions to run conditional code, Customize and animate a person’s body and make the person interact with the environment , Control multiple cameras to create realistic experiences .

·     TEACHERS : Understand procedure definition, algorithms, functions, and conditional statements.

·       How Alice 3 -environment can be integrated into a variety of academic subjects through formative Assessments.

  Using the IF and WHILE Control Statements.

• Setting initial properties for an actor
• Moving an actor
• Resizing an actor
• Working with multiple actors
• import music files
• import pictures 

Alice is a free and innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story. Alice is a teaching tool designed as a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning introductory programming concepts.

KNOW THE TOOL BAR BELOW THE EDITOR AREA

GSWA – AT K.V.GOMTINAGAR LKO 

TGT (Maths.) 30-12-2012 

In Alice 3, a menu bar is displayed in the upper left corner of the window, as shown below. The menus include: File, Edit, Project, Run, Window, and Help.

GSWA – AT K.V.AMC LKO 

PGT (Hindi.) 31-12-2012

Our only suggestion is that the first time an Alice project is saved, use Save As instead of Save.

Enjoyed to know about Alice

creating a scene by adding and positioning object

• Orienting an actor to a target actor

Alice is a 3D Educational software created by Carnegie Melon University with support from Oracle. This software is used by schools to teach animation and create simple educational  projects. It enables a new way to think and learn by populating virtual worlds intelligently, breaking problem statements into small tasks, drawing up algorithmic expressions which help in problem solving.

Getting Started with Alice will strengthen the e-initiatives of KVS. 

GSWA - A virtual think tank  

 

 

About Alice

Alice - Educational 3D Computer Programming Freeware

About Alice

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment available free of cost from Carnegie Mellon University providing students their first hands-on experience to object-oriented programming. The students will be able to create animations for telling a story or create interactive games or animations for class projects. Alice also helps students to learn the fundamental programming concepts.

The Alice interface is pretty simple and the objects required for the animation is readily available as a gallery which can be easily dragged and dropped to the stage or scene. These objects can be programmed by drag and drop of statements.

Minimum System Requirements

Desktop or laptop with minimum 1 GB RAM (2 or more recommended)

VGA graphics card capable of high (32 bit) color and at least 1024x768 resolution 

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7 or Linux or Mac

JAVA JDK

You can download the Java JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

Click on accept agreement and click on 

Windows x86

88.77 MB

jdk-7u11-windows-i586.exe

 to download JDK for Windows 32 bit OS.

Install JDK  and then download and install Alice.

Where to get Alice

Alice can be downloaded freely from http://www.alice.org.

Click Downloads->Get Alice 3.1 (the latest version as on date). Better download the offline installer.

First Video prepared by students

Madam
This video is prepared by class X for FA-2 as a CCE Activity. they enjoyed to work on Alice .
thanks with regards
Saroj Chopra  

Music for your Alice Presentation

The Alice team has came out with a royalty-free sound library that you can use in the animations. On the page there's also a link so that  you can create your own sounds that are compatible with Alice.
http://www.alice.org/sounds/index.php