Computer Science Teacher

If you are a regular (or irregular) reader of my blog here I hope you will do me the honor of taking a few minutes to respond to a short sur...

It’s been a while since I tried to collect any data about who reads my blog and why. When someone pointed out to me that Skydrive has the ab...

The ability of students to find complex solutions to simple problems is a constant source of amusement and amazement. I’m probably neither t...

I’ve written about a number of technology competitions and award programs for students in the last month or so. I thought that a single post...

This was posted to the AP Computer Science mailing list. I thought it was worth posting here for people not on that list. Looks interesting....

I was helping a student today and realized that he’d been “lost” for a while. I was going pretty quickly and everyone seemed to be keeping u...

This weeks quote of the week is from Vicki Davis ‏ @ coolcatteacher who Tweeted “I don't want my students to buy the apps - I want the...

Something different. Something from IBM.   A teacher friend of mine forward the following announcement the other day. This contest is open t...

I've been creating short videos for my honors programming class. They are short and intended for my students to use for review. I’m not ...

One of the things I was responsible for while I was working at Microsoft was promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. I did that pretty well...

Well I was able to blog more often last week. Paying a bit for it as I had a ton of grading to do over the weekend. When inspiration (or som...

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I love xkcd . It’s probably the nerdiest comic strip around. Recently the following strip appeared. I think that people are still better a...

BirdBrain Technologies has announced their intention to lend out 1,000 Finch robots as their contribution to this year's Computer Scie...

Two interesting and initially unrelated links came across my computer screen in the past couple of days. One was an image that said “ Everyo...

CSTA members (you are a member right?) should have seen this in their email. The CSTA annual conference is in my humble opinion the single b...

Busy week for me. Lots of stuff going on at school. Seems like the first few weeks of school wear me out no matter how hard I try to be prep...

During a class discussion last week one of my students asked me “Who is the most successful computer scientist in the world?” Whoa! What a q...

It’s Labor Day in the US and schools are closed here. It’s actually the fourth day in a four day weekend for my school. Some how it always ...

I was attending a golf tournament this weekend. So naturally my thoughts turned to technology. Yes it was everywhere. But the most disruptiv...