Computer Science Teacher

I think a lot of us have trouble knowing what will be interesting to others. I think this is true in the classroom (“ What do you mean kids ...

RoboZZle bills itself as “a social puzzle game” but to me is is a fun and interesting way to introduce programming concepts. Yes it is a pu...

  Things are a little conversation focused lately on Twitter . It seems like a lot of the people I follow are teachers on summer break. S...

The other week while I was at NECC (what a great time meeting with and learning from some wonderful educators) we filmed a video of me demo...

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...

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

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: ...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...