Last week was crazy for me. Professional development day last Monday and Veterans Day on Tuesday just made things start differently. Friday was a travel day as I flew out to Tucson AZ for the CSTA Board meeting. CSTA members you have some great people on the board (and me too). We had a great couple of days worth of meetings.
I spent less time on the internet than usual. You may have noticed blog writing has been less lately. But I do have a few links to share anyway.
Great "Faces of Computing" contest due Nov 20 2014. Still some time to get student entries in.
This Binary number game from CISCO can be addicting. It’s one of the resources listed on my Resources For Teaching Binary Numbers blog post. Someone tweeted about it and set me off playing for a while. So I thought it worth a reminder to others.
Have you been to the Summit? a report on the AP CS Principles summit that was held this past summer.
Computing Is The Safe STEM Career Choice in 2014 is an interesting article at the blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM.
ACM's Turing Award Prize Raised to $1 Million – This is great news for this award. The Turing Award is the closest thing to a Nobel Prize in computing. Google is putting up money for this which is create. I’ve already seen enhanced news coverage of this award.
Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I'm going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works from The Oatmeal who gets serious for a change. This is an issue I’ve been having my students discuss in class.
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