Computer Science Teacher

Do you remember the old days of learning how to program with a simple, easy to use, uncomplicated version of BASIC? A lot of people includin...

I got a lot of “T” words in that title. What I found this week was a whole calendar of videos and presentations created by the “ Microsoft ...

I have a small backlog of interesting links so I decided to group some of them in this post. Some are different from what I usually post and...

One of the questions I get all the time is “ I have a student/child/nephew/daughter/etc who wants to learn programming on their own. Where s...

I’ve been taking a short blogging break this week. Frankly I’m just flat out with other work lately. Yesterday was meetings and preparation ...

I’m in the middle of a deep review of some curriculum for developing web pages. ( This curriculum was talked about in a previous post .) It’...

This is the basic digital lifestyle sort of video . I’ve seen it a number of times and am surprised Microsoft doesn’t make more of it. Thi...

The DWITE programming competition for Canadian high school students is ramping up again for the year. From their About page : The pr...

It’s about 4.5 minutes long and you can see it here . I think its kind of funny. More on the what’s this all about here . Alfred Thompson ...

Here is something more for the administration side of the education business. Microsoft Institute Overview Participate in a uniqu...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Kenny Spade is the new ADE covering northern California. His blog is at twitchgamer.com

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...

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...