Computer Science Teacher

Back last November I posted a short link to NASA’s Be A Martian program page. I guess I didn’t realize at the time that there was a progra...

Microsoft is doing a number of things to help people enter and grow in technology careers. Yesterday there was a post on Microsoft On The Is...

Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center . Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well...

Well did you watch the Super Bowl? I confess that I did not. I’m just not that into football. Still I had a good weekend and as usual I have...

The Microsoft Corporation, NASA, the Texas Business & Education Coalition, and the State of Texas would like to invite you and your stud...

Have you ever been asked a question that you have been asked time and again but suddenly decided you have a different answer for? One of the...

All sorts of good things last week. Tops among them was a visit to Stevens Institute of Technology for a workshop with a great group of hi...

NPR did a story recently on the computer screens that we see in the movies. You know the ones with big read “Access Denied” messages that lo...

Well the latest batch of DigiGirlz Days are starting to get scheduled. What are DigiGirlz Days? They are fun, interesting and educational e...

Last week’s big news on Twitter? Bill Gates is now using it. Yes, @ BillGates is now on Twitter. And he has a new website at www.thegat...

The other day in my interesting links post I included links to several articles/blog posts. One article was titled - IT hiring increases la...

From the time I wrote my first computer program about 38 years ago as a college student there has always been a bit of magic about the proce...

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Austin Texas for the annual TCEA conference. This is one of the biggest and best (we are talkin...

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Austin Texas for the annual TCEA conference. This is one of the biggest and best (we are talkin...

When it rains it pours! I spent last week at FETC in Florida but kept a weather eye out for interesting things to pass on via Twitter (follo...

I love Kodu and I’ve written about it before ( my Kodu blog posts ) and I am regularly asked “when can I get Kodu for the PCs in my classroo...

This year being ‘10 has lead to a lot of talk about numbers that look like binary numbers 1/11/10 or 11110 for example. Related to this is t...

I’m headed to Tuesday night. I’m looking forward to helping with some Expression Web workshops and spending time at the Microsoft booth. I’m...

An announcement arrived in my inbox about applications being open for this year’s Intel Schools of Distinction awards . Microsoft is one of ...

I’ve been saying for some time that the overlap between high end high school students and low end university students is greater than many p...