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martes, 21 de agosto de 2012

BlockCAD Portable

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http://blockcad-portable.softonic.com/

How to use Digital Lego Designer (English and Spanish)

 English
  http://www.ehow.com/how_2209659_use-lego-digital-designer.html


Spanishhttp://www.ehowenespanol.com/utilizar-lego-digital-designer-como_69703/

Drawing with Alice

Drawing with Alice
In this part of the story we see three views of Alice’s house at the base camp:
• A photograph
• A drawing of the cross-section (side view)
• A PLAN view showing the LAYOUT of the house (from above)

Questions
  1. Can you identify the different sections of the house from the symbols which are used.
    Group Discussion
    • Observe closely at the representations of the base camp and Alice’s house, and consider  this is a place where we would like to live.
    Divide a document into two columns and list the PROS and the CONS on either side.
  2.  WRITE a brief description of their ideal house. 
  3.  DRAW your ideal house.
    1. Lego Digital Designer
    2. Google Sketch Up

Research about China I

  1. List all the things you know about China. 
  2. Using reliable sources, check out how many of them are TRUE and how many of them are MYTHS.
  3. Research on China, and to compare their findings to Alice’s description of Northern China in the story. 

Inanimate Alice is...



Born-digital

Written first for and specifically to be read and viewed from the screen



Teaching with Alice-Episode I


iTeach Inanimate Alice


Questions after the reading of episode 1

  1. What we know about Alice?
  2. Write down five things they would like to know about Alice.
  3. PREDICT what will happen in the story.  (What clues are there in the text?)
  4. Write down what you think you see in each of the photographs.
  5. What do the photographs tell us about the place where Alice is living?
  6. What do they tell us about the people her dad is working for?
  7. Who do you think the people in the photographs are?
  8. How do you think the photographs were taken?
  9. What do the moving images of the jeep tell you about the landscape?
  10. What do the colors in the moving images suggest to you?