Computer Science Teacher

I saw this announcement on Facebook first but I probably just missed seeing it on the email list. At this stage I have to wonder why? Why mo...

One of the things I am working hard at this year is making things more clear to students. I want them to understand concepts and why they ar...

Well I made it though going back to school. Teachers went back Tuesday, we saw our freshmen students briefly on Wednesday and had a full (ve...

Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems like just yesterday I got home from this summer’s CSTA conference. But it has actually been a wh...

We have a fairly nice system for student information and the like. It is not perfect but then what system is? For example, our student manag...

I added a new widget to my blog last night. It is connected to CS Teaching tips which is a webpage and Twitter account – @ CSTeachingTips ...

Sometimes you miss something by reading a blog post too early. Such is the case with a recent post by Mark Guzdial - Python is the most popu...

Seems like I spent all my time last week doing last minute tasks before school starts. Getting cars inspected and reregistered for example. ...

Over the last year or so I have had a number of meetings and conversations with school leaders about using social media. One of my first que...

One more week until I return to school for the new year. I’ve been spending a lot of time planning and thinking about how to teach things be...

A friend posted the following image on Facebook. You’ve probably seen like it. Actually I have posted similar myself. The result, as you m...

I’ve been working on my lesson plans for this year and one thing I always struggle with is creating projects. Oh I have lots in my tool box ...

It was both a slow week and a busy week last week. Slow online for the most part. There were a couple of big events that friends of mine wer...

The first thing I ran into with regards to programming tutorials last week was this tweet and accompanying image. 99% of #programming ...

The highlight of last week was a two-hour workshop on TouchDevelop which I presented to teachers who are part of the New York City Departme...

I posted this following image on my Facebook page. Comments came immediately. First one was something like “only one step?” Another said...

I’ve done variations in Whack A Mole over the years. I did a Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7 some years ago for example. But someh...

One of the things I look for in a project is that it is extensible. That means that a reasonable and simple version can be done but that stu...

At a recent workshop Alexander Repenning said that sometimes teaching programming is “one semi colon away from disaster.” How true that is....

What a week I had last week. The CSTA Annual Conference, the National CS Principles Summit and then the CSTA Board meeting. I need a rest. I...