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Are You Ever Really Ready?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Are You Ever Really Ready?

Last year I changed (improved I hope) every PowerPoint deck I used based on how the presentation when and how I realized I could make things more clear. Over the...

Interesting Links 24 August 2015
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Interesting Links 24 August 2015

I meet my freshmen today! Yeah! I am excited. I’m pretty sure I’m ready. I’ve even got a new LCD projector. Although as someone pointed out it is a little sad that...

How I Spent My Summer Break From School
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How I Spent My Summer Break From School

I'm in school today - first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I always tell myself that I’mSimpleK12...

So You Think You Want To Be A Computer Science Teacher?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

So You Think You Want To Be A Computer Science Teacher?

Recently I was asked an interesting question: “if a foresighted student asked how to prepare to be a CS teacher, what advice would you give him or her?” My initial...

Interesting Links 17 August 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 17 August 2015

My summer break is almost over. Many of you are back already. Where does the time fly? Last week was interesting and I started (finally) to work on my course outlines...

The Problem With Group Projects
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The Problem With Group Projects

I haven’t been at the ICER Conference but a lot of my friends are there and between their tweets and other tweets using the #icer2015 hash tag I almost feel like...

Drag and Drop Programming–Some Opinions
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Drag and Drop Programming–Some Opinions

Seriously now! Just how many drag and drop programming languages/environments do we really need? Differences between them are small. The list I have (Drag and drop...

Projects and Recipes in Computer Science Classes
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Projects and Recipes in Computer Science Classes

Chris Lehmann is principal of the Science Leadership Academy. “SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning “ So when I...

Interesting Links 10 August 2015
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Interesting Links 10 August 2015

Interesting week last week. I spent a couple of days at Harvard (a liberal arts college in Cambridge MA) learning about their plans to adapt their famous CS 50wiki...

CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard

The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that link soon.) It was an interesting...

Interesting Links–3 August 2015
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Interesting Links–3 August 2015

I’ve been hearing about teachers headed back to school already. Many more will be starting back over the next month. Almost three more weeks of “summer” for meMicrosoft...

Musings on Blogging
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Musings on Blogging

Attending several conferences this summer I have talked to any number of people about this blog. Several people told me how much they appreciated the blog which...

Putting Student Programmers To Work
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Putting Student Programmers To Work

I love CS Teaching Tips. I follow them on Twitter and Facebook as well as visiting the web site from time to time. Full list of links at the bottom of this post...

Programmers Have No Ideas?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Programmers Have No Ideas?

I read blogs by smart interesting people so I can be exposed to new or different ideas. Eugene Wallingford is one of those smart interesting people. He recently...

Interesting Links 27 July 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 27 July 2015

The really part of this week was in Charleston SC for a great mini conference. I blogged about it earlier in the week. The rest of the week was catching up around...

Charleston Teach Meet Day Two
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Charleston Teach Meet Day Two

Today was the second day of a creative mini conference of educators. You can read about Charleston Teach Meet Day One here. We started off today a little differently...

Charleston Teach Meet Day One
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Charleston Teach Meet Day One

This week I am in Charleston SC at Porter-Gaud School meeting with about a dozen teachers from around the US and two teachers from Scotland. It’s a bit unusual@...

Interesting Links 20 July 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 July 2015

If this is Monday it must be Charleston. Seriously though I am in Charleston SC for a two day mini conference with a small group of great educators. More on that...

CSTA Annual Conference 2015–Looking Back
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CSTA Annual Conference 2015–Looking Back

The 2015 Annual CSTA Conference is in the books now. Over 350 people attended in Grapevine TX for 14 three-hour workshops and 24 concurrent sessions. There wascode...

BBC Micro:bit Revisited
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

BBC Micro:bit Revisited

At the CSTA Conference I had a long chat with Peli de Halleux from the TouchDevelop team about the BBC Micro:bit. Peli has been active in TouchDevelop and the BBC...
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