Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
This is a good article to share with the crisis team
On April 11th Google launched a new daily puzzle to help teachers and
students learn how to search more effectively. AGoogleADay.com presents an
ever-changing search challenge that exercises your internet search skills,
and if you get stumped, there's a solution path just one click away to show
you how to solve the problem. In the first two weeks, AGoogleADay.com has
had more than 300K visitors, all coming to learn what's possible on Google,
challenge their Google-Fu, and learn a bit more about what can be done to
improve your search skills. As the Official Google blog
post<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/trivia-game-where-using-google...>points
out, it's the first game where using Google isn't prohibited, but
required! Try it out at: http://www.AGoogleADay.com
We hope that all this news gives you a little to chew on for a while; it's
certainly keeping us busy. We hope you're enjoying the school years (and
what is nearing the end of the school year for those in the Northern
Hemisphere) and we look forward to being in touch soon!