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How Many Jobs Are There For Poets
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Many Jobs Are There For Poets

I was listening to an Internet stream of Gary Stager presenting a keynote at an education conference in Iowa the other day. The technology for this amazes me but...

New Hampshire TechFest 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New Hampshire TechFest 2011

Last Saturday I spend the day at Windham High School in Windham New Hampshire for the second annual NH TechFest. TechFest is a project  created by parents and others...

Interesting Links 17 October 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 17 October 2011

I spent two days are a Windows Phone event last week. One of several I posted date for at Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free There are a lot...

Interesting Links 17 October 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 17 October 2011

I spent two days are a Windows Phone event last week. One of several I posted date for at Your Chance to Learn Windows Phone Development for Free There are a lot...

Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science

“What qualifies you to teach computer science?” The question took me off guard. The tone as much as the words seem to be more of a challenge than anything else....

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?

A tweet passed though my stream last night. Eugene Wallingford retweeted someone else

Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo 2011

 Last week I attended part of SIEGE 2011 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo) in Atlanta Georgia. Before the main part of the conference started the...

Interesting Links 10 October 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 10 October 2011

Last week the computing industry lost one of its great innovators in Steve Jobs. It

Be The Robot
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Be The Robot

One of the issues with computer science is that some people would rather move atoms than pixels. That is to say that virtual objects, even if they involve images...

Conversations in Kodu
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Conversations in Kodu

Recently the Kodu team announced a new version of Kodu and a new Kodu Community Website. You can read a lot of the details at Announcing the Kodu v1.2 and the Kodu...

Quality of Testing and Quality of Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Quality of Testing and Quality of Code

I see a good number of Tweets in my Twitter stream that just flash by without leaving any impression. Chatty comments between people I barely know (if at all),...

Interesting Links 3 October 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 3 October 2011

What a week. Not as much blogging from me because this were a little crazy. I try not to post just for the sake of posting so without the time to do it right I...

When Fish Fly
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

When Fish Fly

How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I

When Fish Fly
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

When Fish Fly

How excited am I about the Partners in Learning Global Forum? I’m seriously thinking of taking vacation days and paying my own way to Washington DC to see if IInnovative...

Robotics @ Home Competition
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Robotics @ Home Competition

The Microsoft Robotics team has released a new software stack for controlling robots 

Interesting Links 26 September 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 26 September 2011

Autumn has technically arrived in New Hampshire. The leafs are starting to turn but the weather has stayed a bit unseasonably warm. Even still school is in full...

Computer Science Education Act
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Science Education Act

One of the big issues with computer science education is that it is not an integral part of the curriculum It is almost always an elective and doesn

Interesting Links 20 September 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 September 2011

I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum

Interesting Links 20 September 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 September 2011

I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum–Semester Course). I’m pretty excitedImagine...

Microsoft East Region Bloggers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Microsoft East Region Bloggers

These days I am part of a larger team than I used to. There are some 22 of use including our manager. Everyone has a blog. This is the complete list.  NameBlog...
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