Storytelling Alice is an animation program developed by Caitlin Kelleher, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. According to her website, "Storytelling Alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program computers through creating short 3D animated movies. To enable and encourage users to create animated stories, Storytelling Alice includes: High-level animations that enable users to program social interactions between characters. A story-based tutorial that introduces users to programming through building a story. A gallery of 3D characters and scenery with custom animations designed to spark story ideas" I have begun using this software with my middle school students and the results have been extremely positive. Students are beginning to understand the concept of programming, and are creating their own animations. To download the software for your classroom, go to Alice's download page.
