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Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist.
Some New Education Technology Blogs
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/21/2008
Schools As Communication Free Zones
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/20/2008
Links from my talk at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/16/2008
World Wide Telescope
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/15/2008
Code For Decoding Codes – A Programming Project Discussion
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/14/2008
Learning How to Create Games With Popfly
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/13/2008
Getting Started Tutorials for Zune Game Development
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/12/2008
Search Commands For Office
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/09/2008
Where On the Ribbon Is That Office Feature?
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/08/2008
XNA For Zune Game Development Now In Beta
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/07/2008
K-12 Computer Science Research Project
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/06/2008
Popfly Game Creator
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/05/2008
Watching Students Grow Up
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/04/2008
Top Posts For April
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/02/2008
How is a Classroom Like a Pizza Place
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 05/01/2008
Best Practices: Designing Mobile Applications
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/30/2008
Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/29/2008
RoboChamps – Online, Virtual Robot Competition
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/25/2008
Popfly Coin Flip Mashup Tutorial
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/24/2008
XNA Links for Teachers (and other learners)
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Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/22/2008
Computer Literacy 3.0
Computer literacy is a topic that seems to be growing in controversy as quickly as it it is growing...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/21/2008
Boston Public Schools Cyber Safety Program
The Boston Public schools have a very nice cyber safety program with a home on the Internet. This...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/18/2008
Is It Ever Too Early To Teach Security?
About 25 years ago, back in the mini-computer era, I was a developer in an operating system group....
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/17/2008
When One Thing Leads To Another
The laws of unintended consequences seem to live in computer science and software development. Most...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/15/2008
An Expression Web Video Tutorial
Randy Guthrie has posted a very nice 34 minute long video tutorial on how to create a personal web...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/14/2008
Popfly in the Classroom - Trip Report
First the surprising secret - students today are not all that Web 2.0 knowledgeable. Now you...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/11/2008
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) is running an award program for high...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/11/2008
History of Data Storage
Thanks to a link from Leigh Ann Sudol's blog I found this set of images and descriptions of some...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/10/2008
Bootstrapping XNA into High School Computer Science
I've been talking to a lot of schools lately that are experimenting with game development using XNA...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/09/2008
Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition
This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8....
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/08/2008
Top Conversations In March
There were a number of blog posts with above average comment counts in March. The post I wrote about...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/07/2008
Is There A Future For High School Computer Science?
OK that is a fairly provocative title. But I think it is actually a fair and reasonable question....
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/06/2008
College Board to discontinue the AP CS AB exam
Well the news hit like a thunderclap in the Advanced Placement Computer Science world today - the...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/04/2008
XNA Game-Themed Assignments
Kelvin Sung from the University of Washington at Bothell has a project that is building XNA...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/02/2008
Microsoft Game Studio On Who They Hire
Clint Rutkas has posted his interview with Frank Savage from Microsoft Gaming Studios over on...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 04/01/2008
The Art of the Demo
Recently there has been a lot of discussion about doing demos among the people I work with. Showing...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/31/2008
Five Questions with Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen is probably best known either for FIRST Robotics or for inventing the Segway device. But...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/28/2008
XML in Schools - Is Now the Time?
The other day I was chatting online with a good friend of mine. Dave was a teacher but has gone back...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/27/2008
Computer History Links
Recently at SIGCSE there was a panel on Perspectives on History in Computing and Education with John...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/26/2008
Silverlight, Popfly, and other Software Trailers
I'm very lucky to be working with a bunch of bright young people. Well they don't always think of...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/24/2008
Summer Robotics Workshops for Faculty
I see that IPRE (Institute for Personal Robotics in Education) is running a pair of faculty...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/19/2008
Bill Gates Calls For More Technology Education
Bill Gates testified before Congress last week (transcript here). Most of the news reports focused...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/18/2008
20% Time For Students
I spent last week in Portland OR for SIGCSE. As usual it was a great conference and I was able to...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/17/2008
Singularity - A Research Operating System
Microsoft Research has released the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) and it is now...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/14/2008
MIX 08 Sessions OnLine
The MIX conference is a major Microsoft conference on web development and design. It was run in Las...
Author: Alfred Thompson Date: 03/13/2008