Computer Science Teacher

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

Friday, July 29, 2011

Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day

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Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiri...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest

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This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! Th...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Interesting Links 5 July 2011

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Wow! What a week it has been. I came home from ISTE in time for the Fourth of July holiday. I’m still mulling over all I heard and learned a...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Interesting Links 20 June 2011

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This time next week I will be in Philadelphia for ISTE. I’m pretty excited about it. Some really great things going on there. Plus I get to ...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Share Kodu Cup Winners Announced

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Today the Unlimited Potential team announced the winners of the inaugural US Kodu Cup competition . ...
Friday, June 10, 2011

A Collection of Good Posts

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My friend Edwin Guarin (aka the EdVangelist ) has been busy this week and I wanted to send out some link love to some really interesting po...
Saturday, June 04, 2011

Imagine Cup Game Design Competitors 2011

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Andrew Parsons has been working hard to highlight the top teams in this year’s worldwide Imagine Cup. He has a series of blog posts which I ...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011

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Since yesterday was Memorial Day I posted something just a bit fun and saved my links post for today.  I hope those of you in the US enjoyed...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011

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Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors espec...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Interesting Links 23 May 2011

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Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself “Do I have any thing interesting this week?” Invariab...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Seth Godin Needs To Visit a Library

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Now I am married to a school librarian so a) I have a bias toward them and b) I have a bit of an idea of how they think and how libraries op...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Interesting Posts 16 May 2011

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Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit   seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA cour...
Friday, May 06, 2011

Teaching Students To Create Their Own Business

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One of the things that I tell students when I do career talks is that it has never been easier to start a software business than it is today...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Most Read Posts–April 2011

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I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top read blog posts from April 2011. I look at both web statistics and RSS statistic...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

DreamSpark, AppHub and Windows Phone Development

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So are your graduating high school seniors bored? or perhaps you are still looking for things to do after the AP CS exam. or maybe you know...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Enter the Student App-a-thon

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Bob Familiar (@ bobfamiliar ) and Lindsay Lindstrom (@ LindsayInPhilly ) have both been blogging about the Windows Phone Student App-a-tho...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

Computer Science Curricula In Flux

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I don’t know when I have ever seen as much going on with computer science curriculum going on at one time. In the K12 space there is an NSF ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Interesting Projects–A Collection

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It seems as though teachers are always looking for new projects to use with students. Projects get stale (at least to a teacher who has been...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

US Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards

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The Imagine Cup is the premier student technology competition in he world. Yeah, I get excited about it. The US finalists in the Software ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

FutureFed Expert Videos: Dan Kasun on Making Open Government Data Valuable

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Dan Kasun talks about making government information more available and valuable.
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