Professional Development

We run several faculty development workshops on teaching with Alice, ranging in length from a few hours up to a week. We also occasionally run Alice workshops for students. Some of our more recent activities are detailed below.

2008

• Workshop for beginning Alice teachers at SIGCSE.

• Weeklong workshop for high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Oxford, MS.
• Two-week workshop for high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Charleston, SC.
• Two-week workshop for middle school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Durham, NC.

• Follow-up weeklong workshop for high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Oxford, MS.
• Weeklong workshop for high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Golden, CO.
• Two-week workshop for middle and high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in San Jose, CA.
• Four-day workshop for teachers on how to teach a combined Alice and Media Computation course in Las Vegas, NV.

• Follow-up weeklong workshop for high school teachers (supported by an NSF ITEST grant) in Golden, CO.
• Four-day workshop for teachers on how to teach a combined Alice and Media Computation course in Orlando, FL.

• Two-hour Alice workshop presented at CCSC-NW in Medford, OR.

2007

• Workshop for beginning Alice teachers at SIGCSE.
• Workshop for teaching with Alice and Media Computation at SIGCSE.

• Two-day workshop on teaching Alice presented at Nassau Community College.

• Presentation at the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium at NECC in Atlanta, Ga.

• Weeklong workshop presented to teachers at CMU's Alice Summer Institute.
• Three-day Alice and Media Computation workshop presented at Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.

• Three-day Alice and Media Computation workshop presented at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga.
• Three-day Alice workshop presented at California State University - Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, Ca.

• Three-hour Alice workshop presented at CCSC-E in Patchogue, NY.

2006

• 2-day workshop on teaching Alice presented at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

• Workshop for beginning Alice teachers at SIGCSE.
• Workshop for advanced Alice teachers at SIGCSE.

• Presentation to girl scouts at the IBM-sponsored Girls Go Tech expo.

• Presentation to the Presidential Awards for Excellence Math and Science Teachers (PAEMST) 2005 awardees.

• 3-day symposium presented to teachers at Duke University.
• Weeklong workshop presented to high school teachers in Virginia Beach, Va.

• Presentation at the Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium at NECC in San Diego, Ca.
• Presentation to high school girls at the University of Florida's CISE Workshop for Young Women
• Presentation to teachers at the AP Annual Conference in Orlando, Fl.
• Weeklong workshop presented to teachers at CMU's Alice Summer Institute.