Computer Science Teacher

Every so often I like to highlight some technology that is just plain cool. The clock below is one such. Michael Scherotter created thi...

Ironically one of the problems teachers can have with teaching about optimizing programs is that computers are a) so fast now and b) getting...

The Microsoft Education US Specialist Team just started there own blog. This is the technical team that supports Microsoft’s pre-sales effo...

Well the big announcement at the X NA Blog this week was the new community games option now available at XBOX Live. Well that and the new ...

A couple of people I know and respect have jumped into the blogosphere in the last week or so. They have both been helpful to me with inform...

I have this general policy that when I don’t have anything to say I don’t say anything. OK I admit that I have trouble sticking to that poli...

The other day Microsoft Research released their WorldWide Telescope application. This application uses imagery from a number of telescopes ...

These days mobile devices are everywhere. One of the cool things about Windows Mobile devices (Smartphones and Pocket PCs among others) is t...

Note that since I wrote this there have been some changes. See this post for more information - http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/02/xna-is-de...

Edwin Guarin is driving a bus fitted out as a high tech, lots of games and devices, digital dorm room to campuses around the NorthEast.  H...

This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the inte...

OK that is a fairly provocative title. But I think it is actually a fair and reasonable question. The decision last week to drop one of the ...

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers wit...

I never thought I'd see Guy Kawasaki at a Microsoft event but it happened. Earlier this week Guy Kawasaki interviewed Steve Ballmer at ...

Well there are always questions about an handheld game device from Microsoft. Well this isn't it. But what the XNA team did announce tod...

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that  Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The...

Did you know that next week is National Engineering Week ? Well it is. So in honor of that a few links. Check out the Try Science web site...

It looks like Maker Faire is starting to ramp up for this coming May. I'm trying to see if I can justify a trip out to California for i...

Over the holiday I did some browsing around the Internet. I found a couple of new blogs to follow, read some posts by people who hadn't ...

At their best teacher blogs are full of information and idea sharing that benefits other teachers. For teachers of computer science or compu...