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Duke Summer Internship 2008
The category of this project is computer science educational research.  It's main focus is to experiment with and figure out how to use the tool Alice, a 3D virtual worlds environment with a drag-n-drop interface, that allows kids to create games or story animations without much programming experience.

Alice is currently taught at the college level to non-majors. It has had great successes in attracting a diverse group of people to computing, with over 50% women and minorities in our Alice course for 4 semesters now at Duke University.  Here is some screen shots of the worlds created by Duke students.

 

(by: Fred Ehrsam )

 

assignment by Proffessor Rodger to assort animals by height

 

Animals assorted by height

 

burning building animation

 

The project will serve as a way to define uses of these tools in middle schools and high schools.  Specifically, how it can be implemented as a way to introduce K-12 kids to computing.  Their will be a four week workshop in June with high school and middle school students and teachers.  During the workshop materials created by the Alice research assistants and others working on this project will be used.  These include tutorials, sample worlds, and examples.(here is a link to some of this material) http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/

After the workshop we will be able assess what works and what needs to be improved. We will also be using Story Telling Alice, a different version of Alice which is 2D.  (here is a link for all the Alice software) http://www.alice.org/.