Monday, September 30, 2019

Alice - Part 2: Building A Program

Part 2: Building A Program

Notes:

Use snipping tool to screen shot and post all of your progress.
Use the links or go to the class Handout folder for Alice resources.
You need 5-7 screenshots for EACH level. Add a text box to explain what you are showing in each picture.
Use Google Slides to display.

Level 1:

Hello World: First Alice Program

http://www.alice.org/resources/exercise-and-project/hello-world/

Follow the tutorial exactly (as done in class)

For this one only: post the final screen shot

Level 2:

Tutorial: Building A Program

http://www.alice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BuildingAProgram_TutorialExercise.pdf

Follow the tutorial exactly.

Get a screen shot for each sub section, make a Google slideshow.

Make sure your screen shots show your code, like this:

Level 3:

Tutorial: Build Your Own Program

Build your own program.

Must have multiple characters, follow the same steps for Level 2 tutorial.
Add in at least 2 other Procedures code options.
Make it original and interesting.
Get a screen shot for each sub section, make a Google slideshow.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Alice - Part 1: Getting Started with Alice

Part 1: Getting Started with Alice

Watch this overview video clip first:

http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/scene-editor-overview/

Notes:
Use snipping tool to screen shot and post all of your progress.
Use the links or go to the class Handout folder for Alice resources.
You need 5-7 screenshots for EACH level.
Use Google Slides to display.

Level 1:

Open Alice 3 on your computer.

Go to Alice: Getting Started Building a Scene

http://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/building-a-scene/

The first tutorial we will be following is how to build a basic scene.

Scroll done to Skills Included In This Lesson

Start with the Scene Editor Overview

Go through the other How To’s as needed

Follow the Tutorial Scene Building pdf and complete

For quick reference how to videos:

http://www.alice.org/resources/alice-3-how-tos/

Level 2:

Choose your own background and characters and build your own scene.

Must have:

Template, Theme, 10+ characters/objects

Level 3:

Complete the Building A Castle exercise:

http://www.alice.org/resources/exercise-and-project/build-a-castle/

Level 4:

Build your own castle/building/structure.

Post everything when finished.

No posts = no marks.

What to do with your screenshots

POWERPOINT suggestion:

-organized your images into separate ONEDRIVE folders and rename/renumber them

Go to Desktop PowerPoint – chose Insert-Photo Album

and choose the folder - then all the images – 1 per page – fit to slide

and make changes as necessary -

VERY IMPORTANT

add a caption per slide (insert wordart)

make them large and readable

(Describe what is new about each slide)

How to Embed slide shows on your blog using Google Slides

Go to Google Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/

- choose File- import slides - find the powerpoint file you saved.
Choose file - Publish to the Web
Choose the EMBED tab
Slide size : small Auto-advance Slides: every 2 seconds
CHECK BOX both start and restart
copy the code - paste into HTML section of blog post

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Photoshop Warmup

1. Following the tutorial in class, make the name banner using your name, with a different background picture. Include at least 5-7 pictures and a background.

https://www.pexels.com/