Computer Science Teacher

I was asked on Twitter if I had a Visual Basic resource page for teachers and I had to admit that the one I used to maintain was sadly ou...

I’ll be heading to New Jersey in a couple of weeks. Now if you are not from New jersey you may not think that is a good thing. A lot of peop...

Are you a school or district IT person looking for more information about the latest Microsoft technologies. Or perhaps you are a teacher lo...

I’m not really working today. Well just this post really. For the most part I have been largely offline for Labor Day weekend. Enjoying fam...

August was something else for me. I had some travel. I had a lot of work. And I did some things around the house. That’s what August is for ...

Course background:  CareerForward is a media-rich online learning program, developed through a unique public-private partnership between the...

· Introduction to Programming Through Game Development Using Microsoft XNA Game Studio · Introduction to Programming Through Game Developm...

I’m a huge fan of the Windows Live set of tools. I use Windows Live Writer to write and post all of my blog posts (to several different blo...

One of the younger and much hipper members of the Microsoft academic team, DeVaris Brown just opened a new blog called Tales From the Road ...

Getting ready for school to start? I understand that students are already returning in some parts of the US. Over the next three weeks or so...

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 ...