How I Taught My Grandmother

ALICE PRESENTATION ---- PROJECT PLAN

NAME OF THE TEACHER	Mrs.K.V.KAMALA SUNDARAM
DESIGNATION	TGT (ENG)
SCHOOL	K.V NO.2 TAMBARAM
REGION	CHENNAI
PROJECT	ALICE WORLD
SUBJECT	ENGLISH
CLASS	IX
LESSON	HOW I TAUGHT MY GRANDMOTHER
AUTHOR	SUDHA MURTHY
OBJECTIVES	1.to reinforce the main points in the lesson 2.to use ICT skills. 3.to use the animation in ALICE  to create  interest . 4.Write a visual and textual storyboard for an animation. 5.correlate storyboard statements with program execution tasks
CONTENT   POINTS	1.The narrator (Sudha) goes to her native  village. 2.Her grandmother is always anxious to know what happens in the story “Kashi Yatre”. 3.Kashi Yatre is a popular Kannada story written by the writer “Triveni” and came as serial in “Karmaveera”. 4.Sudha teaches her grandmother alphabets. 5.The grandmother learns with determination. 6.On Saraswathi Puja Day, the grandmother falls at the feet of her young guru and declares her success. 7.We should focus on “literacy” & “Girls’ Education”.
METHODLOGY	1.Creating scenes. 2.Introducing &Positioning Instances 3.Using procedures for say /think, orientation etc. 4.Declaring new procedures. 5.Using Camera Markers. 6.Using the possible ‘control’ loops.
RESOURCES  & CREDITS	1.Literature Reader Class IX English ( CBSE) 2.Alice.org for sound files 3.google – images &sound files
RECAPITULATION	Objective Q& A
CHALLENGES	1.Finding “Indian” instances /objects from Alice Gallery. 2.Time Management- testing &debugging.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT	1.Mrs.Prasanna Kumari, Principal, KV NO.2 TAMBARAM. 2.Mrs.Kamal Peter, Oracle Academy.
PROJECTION	1.Students will find creating Alice Worlds interesting & challenging. 2.An opportunity for the teachers to be in tune with times and  learn ‘coding’ through playway method.

Come let us learn Alice

LESSON PLAN

Topic:  Come let us learn Alice

Class: 6-10

Subject: Work Experience

Author: M Rahiman, Librarian, KV Kanjikode West

Objectives:

Students are

1.  Able to appreciate the benefits of learning Alice, a 3D programming software.
2. Motivated to learn Alice for Animation, Games and Quiz.
3. Develop skills of working on Alice a 3D programming free ware.
   
   

Development of the Lesson:

Sl. No	Learning Activities	Learning Outcomes	Skills Developed
1	Students visit the Alice website.	Understand the genesis of Alice, the scope of the software and learning activities currently underway.	Reading and understanding.
	www.Alice.org		Navigating through a website
2	Down load Alice	Are able to install JDK and Alice on the computer/laptop	Download and installation of software
3	Observe the Alice Presentation : Come Let us Learn Alice (Teacher Presentation)	Are able to note the distinguishing elements of the presentation Synchronous movements, insertion of music, the visual imagery	Appreciate creativity, are self motivated to learn, concentration.
4	Teacher Demonstration and student practice activities to learn Alice.	Learn to create a scene by adding and positioning objects, using procedures, declaring procedures, creating multiple camera angles, inserting text, music, using control statements and functions.	To work on Alice software.
5	Alice Projects for students (Group Activity).Themes listed ahead.	Through the project presentations, students become familiar with the procedures of working on Alice. Do research work, write story boards and make a complete project with technical finesse.	To be a director, producer, choreographer of any production on Alice.
6	Groups showcase their work	Confident working on Alice.	Animation, Story Boarding, Team work, Communication skills, Time management.

Assignment:  (Prepared by the students and evaluated by teacher)

Divide the class into 4 groups: Assigned are four themes to make a presentation on

• Pollution
• Peace in the World
• Healthy Living
• Help Thy Neighbour

Evaluation Criteria:

Creativity -15 Marks

 Use of Procedures – 10Marks

 Choice of Music -05 Marks

 Division of responsibility -05 Marks

Credits and Citations- 05 Marks

Format of Presentation - .a3p file, Video, uploading on Blog. -05 Marks

Overall impact on the presentation -05Marks

LESSON PLAN of ALICE 3 PROJECT- Introduction to Work Education

A. About the Teacher:
Created By: VIPIN KUMAR MAURYA, TGT Work Experience
Kendriya Vidyalaya: IIM Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

B. About the Project:
Subject: Work Education (erstwhile Work Experience)
Topic: Introduction to Work Education
Duration: 05:30 minutes
Class: 6th to 12th

C. Objective of the story:
To create such a 3-d animation on Alice 3.1 so that the students could be made aware of the facts that why and how the emphasis on Work Education is the need of the hour.

D. Background and purpose of the story:
I am of the view that the students must know the background/ history behind the inclusion of the subject, they are studying. I have personally experienced that most of the students are not aware of the origin of Work Education (erstwhile Work Experience/ SUPW). This situation is same across all the upper-primary, secondary and senior secondary classes i.e. class 6 to class 12, that I take.
I, therefore, landed upon the idea of creating an animated story to tell the students the logic behind inclusion of Work Education in the school curriculum. I also wish the students know that how the emphasis on Work Education in the whole education system can change the whole scenario and can take us in a better world.
Earlier, I had been trying to meet this requirement by preparing and showing a Power Point Presentation to the students. I am sure that a 3-D animation on Alice 3.1 would be more effective and thus, would enhance the understanding of students about the facts.

E. Main constituents of the story:
Characters:
i) Mahatma Gandhi
ii) Child undergoing education
Background:
i) Banana tree
ii) Pond
iii) Table lamp
iv) Banana Tree
v) Palm Tree

F. Description of the scenes:
1. Introduction
a) What are the goals of Education?
b) What we see around us today
c) Is the Education System ailing? What is the remedy?

2. Mahatma Gandhi tells his plan of Basic Education

3. How 3 H’s combination in useful for personality development

4. How the Work Experience is beneficial if included in all sort of education?

5. Kothari Commission and Work Experience in Education

6. Credits

G. Making of the Animation:
The animation took ten days to complete. The details are as given below:

PHASE	DAY	DURATION	DESCRIPTION
Planning	1	03:00 Hrs.	Chalking out the basic structure of the animation on Alice 3.1.60.0.
	2	03:00 Hrs.	Collection of relevant data such as information from the web and books and summarizing that.
Preparation	3	02:30 Hrs.	Starting making the animation, Scene 1 (Cam_Intro) and 2 (Cam_Wardha).
	4	04:30 Hrs	Animating Scene 3 (Cam_Gandhi) and Scene 4 (Cam_BookTop).
	5	03:30 Hrs	Animating Scene 5 (Cam_Child).
	6	04:00 Hrs	Animating Scene 6 (Cam_Edu).
	7	02:30 Hrs	Animating Scene 7 (Cam_Kothari).
Presentation	8	04:00 Hrs	Playing the animation, making corrections by following trial and error method.
	9	04:00 Hrs	Finalizing the animation.
	10	06:00 Hrs	Making the necessary corrections after showing that to the students.

 

H. The Barriers:
The final animation is good, I suppose. But there were barriers in making it. Some of them are:
1. I could not match the looks of Gandhiji on Alice. My Gandhiji is there without his trademark glasses.
2. Since, with the textual matter, voice over is also included, it enhanced the size of .a3p file. It is now about 84MB. Running such a heavy animation was cumbersome.
3. Animating the Scene 6 (Cam_Edu) specially was quite difficult. To get the effect of a Money Bag, I had to use the Bowling Pin, but I am not satisfied with that.

I. Alice and Work Experience:
Work Experience ultimately makes the learners skilful. There is the need of the hour that students develop one or more skills in them. We know that the area of computers provide them many avenues of developing skills and animation is one of them.
Making projects on Alice has been made very simple so that the students could learn the a-b-c of animation in an easier manner. Alice is going to give the students a strong area of skills of the time. The students will certainly be able to enhance their interest as animation opens many doors of careers in later stage.
In this manner, the Work Experience could open a gateway for the students to learn animation through Alice and go ahead in the life.

J. Credits:
1) Softwares: Alice 3.1, WavePad and NaturalReader
2) CBSE's Publication: Work Education In Schools
3) Website: http://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/g_edu.htm