Animation and Programming with Alice Camp - Level 1 - Haunted Halloween Edition

Students will learn how to create and place characters in a 3D world, and then create digital stories using text-based dialog and animation.  We will be using Alice 3.0, which combines object-based coding with texted-based Java coding.  Alice is a free program made available by Carnegie Mellon and is used widely in elementary through college-age computer, visual arts, and other core classes. Students need to have general computer skills, but no previous animation or coding experience is required.  

Students will be introduced to the project which I will demonstrate step-by-step sharing my screen and students can use the video to follow along on their own computers.  (Teacher will also be available throughout the week for help and questions on projects outside of class.) The lessons will be recorded, so if you can't make all 5 days, your learner can watch the recording and catch up.

Lesson 1 will be an introduction to the user interface, how to find, place, and modify objects in Alice.  Lessons 2 and 3 will set up a "Haunted Ball" scene with props and characters that we will then modify with character movement and text-based dialog.  Lessons 4 and 5 will work on importing music for the soundtrack and animating the characters to "dance".

Parents or students will need to download and install Alice 3.0 on their computer prior to the first lesson (teacher will be available for any technical support needed!)  Download it from: http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3/.  Alice 3.0 will run on Windows (32- or 64-bit systems), Mac OS, or Linux.