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Teaching Teachers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Teachers

Next week is the CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology Conference in Irvine CA. I

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012

I received this news from the ACM recently. The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit will be available live  for the public this year. I

Where is the computer science at ISTE?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Where is the computer science at ISTE?

My prime focus at Microsoft is K-12 computer science education. While I am very interested in various areas of using technology in education I basically get paid...

Interesting Links 2 July 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 2 July 2012

I was pretty quiet last week. Some family stuff going on kept me away from work and (largely) off the Internet. Still over the last few days I have been catching...

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

Interesting Links

Well I am not at ISTE this year. Sorry to miss it but in the long run it worked out as I am taking care of some important family stuff this week. If you are there...

Computer Science in the Common Core
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Science in the Common Core

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I really believe that we need more computer science in education long before university. The only national influence...

Thinking About Next School Year
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Thinking About Next School Year

As the rolling schedule of school year openings and closings continues it looks like school is just about done everywhere in the US this week. Today is the last...

Studio K
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Studio K

The other day the Kodu team announced Studio K. What is Studio K you ask?  In my opinion it

Interesting Links 18 June 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 18 June 2012

Some of you may remember that I was nominated for the  Top 30 Fascinating Technology Teacher blog voting. I came in at number 7. Thanks to all of you who voted'Who...

Why I Love Windows Live Mesh
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Why I Love Windows Live Mesh

It could be argued that I have too many computers. There is my cool demo machine

Microsoft Store Summer Camps are Now Open for Registration!
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft Store Summer Camps are Now Open for Registration!

Microsoft Store Summer Camps are Now Open for Registration! Our 2012 Summer Camps are first come, first served. Don't...

My IT Department Will Not Let Me
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

My IT Department Will Not Let Me

Today on Facebook Gary Stager posted a rant of a status update: Here's a novel idea. Don't send teachers to computing PD with laptops on which they are banned...

Latest Curriculum Resources at the Faculty Connection
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Latest Curriculum Resources at the Faculty Connection

The latest Microsoft Faculty Connection Newsletter came yesterday. I thought it might be useful to highlight some of the news from this issue here. The Faculty...

Big Projects!
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Big Projects!

Last night I visited Londonderry (NH) High School to see some of their student’s senior projects. I met a student from this school at the FIRST Robotics Championship...

Interesting Links 11 June 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 11 June 2012

Well I had a great weekend. My wife and I spent the weekend with our son and daughter in law. I little work done around my father

So you want to teach computer science?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

So you want to teach computer science?

A number of years ago after being laid off from a job developing software I went into teaching. I taught a year in a pair of elementary schools and then spent 8...

Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum

Today the US Partners in Learning team announced the Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum. There are a lot of great projects in that list...

There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science

Last week Doug Peterson pointed me to an article called

Interesting Links 4 June 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 4 June 2012

This past Saturday was my 9th anniversary working full-time for Microsoft. It

Windows 8 Release Preview Released
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows 8 Release Preview Released

Yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows 8 Release Preview is now available for download in 14 languages. This is the final pre-release, and includes Windows...
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