Computer Science Teacher

One of the really interesting events that Microsoft runs is a set of competitions called the Imagine Cup.   These competitions are internati...

One the the farewell presents from Microsoft (actually something I won in a company promotion) was a Samsung Series 7 slate running Windows ...

As I mentioned yesterday ( Cool Toys For Teaching Software and Engineering ) I am attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference thi...

I’m attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference this week and spent the morning in the exhibit hall. Most of the hall is stuff I...

Not long ago someone tweeted “ Stop using "guru," "ninja," and other terms for job descriptions. You are a Sparkly Code ...

Last week was Thanksgiving in the US and for me it meant a lot of good food and family time. Among other things my son and I built a new doc...

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 draft .  Th...

Someone posted this to Facebook the other day. I have to admit that I have said several of these and heard most of them. I suspect a lot of ...

I made some more changes to the blog this last week. I hope they are not too disruptive but I want to make the site more useable and interes...

This is something a little different. Hopefully a conversation starter. In 1994, after about 18 years in the computer industry working with ...

Most people I know who teach computer science more or less figured out how to do it on their own. Some were lucky enough to have peers in th...

I’ve been thinking a lot about projects the last month or so. You may have seen it in my posts. Mostly I’ve been talking in generalities but...

Pat Yongpradit is one of my heroes. He is a high school computer science teacher who just does amazing things and gets his students involve...

Chris Lehmann is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy , a partnership school in Philadelphia, and a frequent speaker on educatio...

I spent a little time tweaking this blog layout last week. Just trying to make it look a little less cookie cutter. I also wanted to add the...

All-nighters, those storied tales of spending all night in the computer lab or the library trying to meet a school deadline, came up in a Fa...

I’m a big fan of CSEdWeek (Computer Science Education Week) and in the past I have done school visits and hosted field trips at Microsoft of...

I first ran into the question of paying faculty based on the subject they taught some years ago during an industry advisory meeting for a un...

In a Facebook post recently, Gerald Thurman, a computing/math instructor at Scottsdale Community College located in Scottsdale, Arizona intr...

This post all started as a comment on a guest post by Barbara Ericson on Mark Guzdial’s blog - The Need for an Industry-based Java Exam . In...