Computer Science Teacher

Short work week last week. Not a lot of great links showing up in my RSS reader or my email inbox. It seems like a lot of people took the we...

Earlier in the week I received an email telling me that nomination for this year’s Edublogger Awards are now open. Some really great blogs ...

Every so often someone suggests a project and I ask myself “ why wasn’t I clever enough to think of that?” Actually it happen more often t...

Ever wonder how they get the sound effects for car racing video games? A Tesla gets recorded for Microsoft games . Interesting story really....

I get a lot of interesting email. Today I received an email from a student in Japan asking me the question “ Do you think that hackers will ...

Early in the week last week the @ tcea Twitter account tweeted (Twittered?) "They may forget what you said, but they will never f...

I had an interesting conversation with two teachers last week. One the chair of the computer science of a large state university and the oth...

Recently I have been doing some mock interviews with high school students. I have some business cards with a coded message on the backs with...

Welcome to this week’s collection of interesting links. Some of these I found on Twitter, some on various blogs, and some came by email from...

Imagine you had a pickup truck that you used for work. One day the person in charge of company vehicles says to you “we’re going to replace ...

One of the things I hear pretty regularly is that not everyone needs (or wants) to be a programmer. Some people want or perhaps even need to...

Back a year or so ago Microsoft opened the Pre-collegiate faculty connection web portal to share resources for computer science, computer p...

OK, this may not be the definitive index to Microsoft resources for teachers but it’s close. Something for everyone from elementary school E...

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 ...

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