I have had quite a bit of experience with Alice lately.
Last winter I wrote curriculum for a Middle School Girl’s Camp. Over the last two weeks I’ve been training teachers how to use Alice and how to use my curriculum. They seem to like it and think it is going to work — I’ll get to find out next week, I’m doing one of the camps from 8:30 – 10:30 each day.
I just finished writing curriculum for 6 weeks of a one semester curriculum for an 8th grade elective class. I created a bunch of movies of each of the topics I think that the six weeks should cover. I’ve had problems though, the first set I made showed the video but not audio. The second had audio and not video. I finally figured out that I needed to put the movies in "pack and go mode" and I needed to take them out of live mesh. Not sure which fixed it all but even managed to make a menu for the CD with Camtasia Menu Maker. I need to learn more about it, but it works nicely. I really think the Live Mesh was causing the problem, but not sure why.
I’ll let you know later in the week how the camp goes. Training, both the ones lead by me and the ones led by the district both went well.
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