Computer Science Teacher

There is still one more day for ISTE but today was the last day for me. My brain is full and I am tired so I am ok with missing another day....

So much of what makes a conference for me is the people. I’ve missed the last two ISTE conferences and it has been a while since I have seen...

I actually got here on Friday but things started for real this afternoon. More or less. I was not able to get into one big session of mini t...

The cartoon below by Hugh Mac­Leod is one of the most shared of his images on  the Internet. I have to say I see something different in it ...

One of the links in yesterday’s interesting links post was to a fun questionnaire for computer science people. Guess the Programming Languag...

School’s out for the summer! Not that I haven’t been busy doing a lot of stuff I just haven’t had time for during the school year. And this ...

Well it looks like Google is jumping into the effort to get more girls interested in computer science in a big way. Their new program is ca...

Code tells a story. When I hear someone talking about telling a story in code I tend to think of tools like Alice, Kodu and Scratch. After ...

I’ve seen several variations of the image below over the years. The last time I saw it I decided I’m going to use it with my computer scienc...

I shared the image below on my Facebook page last week. As I write this there are ten “Likes” and nineteen comments from my friends. Over ho...

School is out! Well after lunch today school is over for the year for me and my school. I’ll miss the kids over the summer but I’m ready for...

The term "undocumented feature" is a humorous term for something that was not planned in software. OH for sure there can be featur...

One of the things I worked on this year was sharing resources with students. I uploaded all my PowerPoint presentations to our learning mana...

The latest announcement from code.org hit my email inbox yeterday. Looks like they are planning for a bigger better "Hour of Code"...

The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam was graded last week. Well the free response part was anyway. I had a number of friends there a...

Someone mentioned in a comment somewhere (I wish I could find a link) that sometimes they create a project for students that they haven’t bu...

Well my seniors are done. Graduation was yesterday. The Salutatorian had several interesting and funny things to say. Perhaps because it is ...

Recently Mark Guzdial had a post called High school CS teachers need to read and trace code, not develop software that got me thinking alon...

In case you are not a CSTA member  (why not?) and didn’t get the email this looks pretty interesting. In a new twist for 2014, CSTA is th...

My students are wrapping up the year with final projects. For the most part these are great learning experiences. Sometimes though students ...