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good tutorials to teach Alice coding

"Going back to school to meet the 4-year-olds who are learning to program computers thanks to a new graphics-based coding language"

As the nation's most comprehensive provider of research-based intervention and online learning solutions, Voyager Learning is dedicated to the success of every student. We partner with PreK-12 school districts to help them implement our wide range of educational offerings, including curriculum products, personalized professional development, and school improvement/turnaround services.

Provides many options of ways to differentiate lessons or provide support for all types of learners.

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

WOW! Very Scratch-like UI for programming Android mobile apps!!

This quote gets me thinking about ways that our own Writing Project is moving towards a paperless institute.

This source includes a definition of the term year-round school as well as different views from those for and against year-round schooling.

"Classroom Presenter"

Another plagiarism checker. Unfortunately, it works for about 8 papers and then there's a delay... still better than nada.