Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Foundations Of Digital Games Conference

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The Game Development in Computer Science Education conference has been renamed and this year’s event is called the Fourth International Conf...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008

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I am struggling to  catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got ov...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Imagine Cup – Student Environment & Technology Competition

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The 2008 Imagine Cup finals is currently being held in Paris France. This international competition involves tens of thousands of univers...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Above & Beyond Awards - Massachusetts

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The Mass Technology Leadership Council is a great organization of people and companies in the high technology industry in Massachusetts. One...
Friday, June 06, 2008

Friday Interesting Links

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Every so often I run into a number of things that I think are interesting and useful but that I don’t feel like I have enough added value to...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Kenny Spade Joins the Academic Team at Microsoft

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Kenny Spade is the new ADE covering northern California. His blog is at twitchgamer.com
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

May Posts in Review

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May was an interesting month for me in several ways. One area that I struggled with though was blogging. Perhaps it is because the school ye...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

An Analog Computer Clock

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Every so often I like to highlight some technology that is just plain cool. The clock below is one such. Michael Scherotter created thi...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Who Cares How Fast the Code Is?

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Ironically one of the problems teachers can have with teaching about optimizing programs is that computers are a) so fast now and b) getting...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Microsoft Education Team Blogs

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The Microsoft Education US Specialist Team just started there own blog. This is the technical team that supports Microsoft’s pre-sales effo...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

New Developments in XNA Resources

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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 ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Some New Education Technology Blogs

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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...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Schools As Communication Free Zones

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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...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

World Wide Telescope

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The other day Microsoft Research released their WorldWide Telescope application. This application uses imagery from a number of telescopes ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Best Practices: Designing Mobile Applications

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These days mobile devices are everywhere. One of the cool things about Windows Mobile devices (Smartphones and Pocket PCs among others) is t...
Monday, April 21, 2008

XNA Links for Teachers (and other learners)

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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...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Digital Dorm - In A Bus?

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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...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition

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This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the inte...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Is There A Future For High School Computer Science?

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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 ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Students 2 Business - Its About the Jobs

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