Computer Science Teacher

There is a new mo vie about Grace Hopper out in the Internet. The movie is about 16 minutes look and I think it is pretty good. I’m looking...

A new semester starts for me today. Since I only teach semester courses that means a whole new group of students to meet and teach. I have s...

One of my most popular posts has been a collection of links to block programming ( drag and drop programming ) tools and languages. The othe...

School is out today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Semester exams start tomorrow. I think I’m ready. I hope my students are ready.  ...

Thanks to a contest run by the Office Mix people I won a Surface Pro 3 for my school. And I get to use it which is great. I’ve had a Surfac...

Code Hunt is something I have been experimenting with a bit this year. For those who are not familiar with it, Code Hunt “is an educational...

One thing I hear a lot is “I have the exact same code and someone else and theirs work and mine doesn’t.” The obvious wise guy reply is “if ...

It’s the end of the semester and I’ve been crazy busy. Outside projects, grading, exam writing, and more. Time for blogging seems to be in s...

First interesting links post of the new year! I hope your year is off to a good start. Classes started back up for me today. I think I’m rea...

Seems like a lot of people like to make predictions this time of year. I tend not to because I’m not that good at it. But I think I have som...

This is the year I got serious about doing things differently in my class. Three tools really helped me out. Yes they are all from Microsoft...

Last week was Christmas and I spent very little time online and did not collect a lot of good links. So with the  end of the year is just ar...

Last week Audrey Watters wrote a blog post that asked Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development ? Now I love Twitter (f...

All you AP CS teachers will want to share this one. This one is the for math teachers in the crowd.

Yesterday I was charged with helping my grandson (he’s three months old) get to sleep for a nap. After walking around and speaking softly to...

Christmas vacation for me. I love my students but I sure do need a break right now. Like a lot of teachers I can use the time to catch up wi...

Earlier today several people told me that my name was referenced on SlashDot . Specifically it was in reference to me calling programming a ...

Computer Science Week has been around for about seven years now. In the early years I think most of us didn’t really know how to deal with ...

Last week I saw a tweet complaining to Wonder Workshop about them using Blockly to program their robots when (apparently) the Kickstarter p...

A friend sent me a link to an interesting looking page that the White House set up to tell stories of the history of women in Science and T...