Educ 482 - Alice, The Story Telling Version

Since I did not (nor will I) have time to discuss Alice story telling in detail in class, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss it here.

Alice Storyteller is basically a spin off of Alice where Caitlin Kelleher centered his PhD on creating story creation system based on the Alice framework. Geared for middle school girls to introduce them to the concepts of programming under the veil of creating a 3d movie/animation.

Since the core system is the same Alice and Alice storytelling users can easily jump between platforms. The difference between these two programs is under the hood. In Alice storytelling, there are many more scenes and characters, as well as many more premade methods that each character can do. since the emphasis is on creating stories, the components are focused here. Hence, there are many more scenes that one would encounter in everyday life as well as many more characters to span the many possible characters that a student could dream up.

This freedom allows students a greater flexibility to find the right character to fit in their story. The best part is they are still learning the fundamental ideas of object orientated programming.

For more information check out alice storytelling and this tutorial for more information.