Computer Science Teacher

This is Alfred Thompson's blog about computer science education and related topics.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Real Life Is An Open Book Test

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The other day a regular reader of my primary high school computer science blog (thanks Avi Burstein) sent me a link to an article titled Ac...
Friday, June 05, 2009

It Ain’t Heavy It’s My Software

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The trend these days seems to be moving applications to the web browser. The ideas behind that are having access anywhere – from any locatio...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Computing at School Working Group

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What did I learn about on Twitter today ? The UK based Computing at School Working Group is what I learned about. From their home page: ...

ADE Team Member Blogs

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Hilary Pike & Diane Curtis Springboard from Mortarboard to Onboard ( RSS ) Clint Rutkas BetterThanEveryone ( RSS ) & Coding 4 Fu...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Revisiting the GoTo Statement

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In yesterday’s post I named the “GoTo” statement as basically a bad thing. To my surprise this started a short Twitter discussion and also ...
Friday, May 15, 2009

A First Computer Science Course

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Starting back this past winter I started hearing about a National Science Foundation (NSF) project to create or perhaps promote might be a ...
Friday, May 08, 2009

Learn Programming with XNA: Curriculum Available Now

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I get asked about curriculum available for XNA on a pretty regular basis. I’ve been linking to a lot of stuff that is available in parts an...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Links Twittered April 13 2009

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Once again I have found myself Twittering a lot of links in the course of the week. Here, in hopes you will find one or more of them interes...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Teacher Tech Tuesday Erin Gruwell of the Freedom Writers Foundation

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Teacher Tech Tuesday: LIVE Webcast with Erin Gruwell , Founder and President of the Freedom Writers Foundation Join Microsoft Education fo...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

A Little Link Love

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I have a number of friends and co-workers who are blogging for higher education students (and to some extent higher ed faculty) who I really...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Five Year Blogging Anniversary

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Today marks five years of blogging for me. That day was a Saturday as well. Funny how things work out. I have to say that time does fly wh...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Useful Web Links for Computer Science Teachers

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I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some n...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The 2009 Alice Symposium – Call For Papers

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Just passing this along in hopes that people interested in Alice will see it an take advantage of this opportunity. I have no connection to ...

Windows 7: To the Beta and Beyond

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Something for the IT people at your school or district. Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 11:00am Pacific Time https://ms.i...
Monday, December 22, 2008

One More Reason to Be Proud of Working For Microsoft

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Microsoft named top U.S. company for community investment in survey of peers Interesting article about “ a survey of major corporations [of...
Friday, November 28, 2008

What are you?

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Just for the fun of it I was taking a series of poll questions at Microsoft’s Microphone application on Facebook this afternoon and all of ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving Reading

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Why post anything on Thanksgiving? I mean people are all spending time with family or sleeping through football games on TV and generally st...
Friday, November 21, 2008

IT Challenge 2009 Worldwide Competition for High School and College Students Ages 16 and Over

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Attention all high school students 16 and over . Are you interested in information technology? Microsoft Imagine Cup Announces the IT Chal...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Announcing Small Basic From Microsoft DevLabs

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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...

Tech Talk Tuesday For Teachers

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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 ...
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