{"id":286,"date":"2010-01-26T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:25:36","slug":"a-different-kind-of-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I love to teach is because I love to learn. During my ed tech class last week, one of my students introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice.org\/\">Alice<\/a>, the programming language, and also talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice.org\/kelleher\/storytelling\/\">Storytelling Alice<\/a>, the programming language geared towards middle schoolers, particularly girls.  I had only a vague knowledge of Alice and none at all of Storytelling Alice.  I had hoped to spend some time with both this week, but my own programming got in the way.  I also stumbled because Storytelling Alice doesn&#8217;t have a Macintosh version.  Using it would mean dragging out the Windows machine.  But, I ended up doing that anyway since I loaned it to a student so it is up to date and ready to go.  So, maybe this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in one of those serendipitous events, I got an email today highlighting webinars being sponsored by Georgia Tech that focus on Alice.  I was going to email the link to my students but thought there might be a wider audience.  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cc.gatech.edu\/TeaParty\">link<\/a> to the Tea Party website and the <a href=\"http:\/\/coweb.cc.gatech.edu\/ice-gt\/10\">link<\/a> to the webinar schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I love to teach is because I love to learn. During my ed tech class last week, one of my students introduced me to Alice, the programming language, and also talked about Storytelling Alice, the programming language geared towards middle schoolers, particularly girls. I had only a vague knowledge of Alice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Different Kind of Tea Party<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,87,161],"tags":[160,381,389,360],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-learning","category-open-source","category-programming","tag-alice","tag-learning","tag-programming","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-4C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}