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Friday, May 30, 2008 5:36 AM

Who, from the Past or Present, You'd Like to Teach Your Class for a Day

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/30/who-from-the-past-or-present-you-d-like-to-teach-your-class-for-a-day.aspx'; Edutopia is doing a set of reader surveys at their web site. There are a bunch of interesting categories but one
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:53 PM

Tips for Tech Talks and Demos

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/29/tips-for-tech-talks-and-demos.aspx'; One of the things I have been doing for years in the classroom and the lecture hall and conference rooms is giving technical talks and demos of creating
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:59 AM

An Analog Computer Clock

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/28/an-analog-computer-clock.aspx'; Every so often I like to highlight some technology that is just plain cool. The clock below is one such. Michael Scherotter created this watch image using a
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:56 AM

Who Cares How Fast the Code Is?

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/27/who-cares-how-fast-the-code-is.aspx'; Ironically one of the problems teachers can have with teaching about optimizing programs is that computers are a) so fast now and b) getting faster all
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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:02 AM

Class Programming Project Ideas

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/26/class-programming-project-ideas.aspx'; It is often interesting what one finds by reviewing referral links (the information that shows how people get to a blog or web site). One of the sites
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Friday, May 23, 2008 10:03 AM

Microsoft Education Team Blogs

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/23/microsoft-education-team-blogs.aspx'; The Microsoft Education US Specialist Team just started there own blog . This is the technical team that supports Microsoft’s pre-sales efforts to education.
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:35 AM

Short Office Tutorials

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/23/short-office-tutorials.aspx'; Community Clips is a new (well new to me) site supported by Microsoft Office Labs that lets users create, upload, and view videos of how to do things using Microsoft
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:20 PM

New Developments in XNA Resources

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/22/new-developments-in-xna-resources.aspx'; Well the big announcement at the X NA Blog this week was the new community games option now available at XBOX Live. Well that and the new redesign and
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:16 AM

Some New Education Technology Blogs

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/21/some-new-education-technology-blogs.aspx'; A couple of people I know and respect have jumped into the blogosphere in the last week or so. They have both been helpful to me with information
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:49 AM

Schools As Communication Free Zones

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/20/schools-as-communication-free-zones.aspx'; I have this general policy that when I don’t have anything to say I don’t say anything. OK I admit that I have trouble sticking to that policy sometimes.
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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:08 PM

Links from my talk at Stevens Institute of Technology

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/16/links-from-my-talk-at-stevens-institute-of-technology.aspx'; Yesterday I gave one of the keynote talks at Stevens Institute of Technology’s second annual high school computer science workshop
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:55 AM

World Wide Telescope

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/15/world-wide-telescope.aspx'; The other day Microsoft Research released their WorldWide Telescope application. This application uses imagery from a number of telescopes both on earth and in space
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:18 AM

Code For Decoding Codes – A Programming Project Discussion

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/13/code-for-decoding-codes-a-programming-project-discussion.aspx'; I love to collect fun coding projects. I like short, easy to understand projects that get students to use a number of things
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:14 AM

Learning How to Create Games With Popfly

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/14/learning-how-to-create-games-with-popfly.aspx'; I recently rediscovered the Popfly wiki. The Popfly wiki is a strong and growing community effort to help people get the most out of the Popfly
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Monday, May 12, 2008 6:11 AM

Getting Started Tutorials for Zune Game Development

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/14/getting-started-tutorials-for-zune-game-development.aspx'; Well it hasn’t taken long for more people to jump on the XNA 3.0 Community Technical Preview that was announced last week . Sam Stoke
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Friday, May 09, 2008 6:11 AM

Search Commands For Office

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/09/search-commands-for-office.aspx'; The Internet and blogging are wonderful things. Yesterday I blogged about a set of tools for helping people find the Office 2007 location for commands based
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:33 AM

Where On the Ribbon Is That Office Feature?

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/07/where-on-the-ribbon-is-that-office-feature.aspx'; I’ve talked to a number of teachers recently who teach the Office Suite as part of a computer applications courses lately. A good number of
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:08 AM

XNA For Zune Game Development Now In Beta

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/07/xna-for-zune-game-development-now-in-beta.aspx'; The XNA team has announced that the Community Technical Preview of XNA GSE 3.0 is now available . The big news in this is that now it is possible
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:28 AM

K-12 Computer Science Research Project

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/06/k-12-computer-science-research-project.aspx'; Note: I first published this back in July when most teachers were on vacation and I think didn't see this. I do believe this is a valuable research
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Monday, May 05, 2008 9:22 AM

Popfly Game Creator

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/05/popfly-game-creator.aspx'; It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Popfly – especially lately as I’ve been writing a lot about it. But late last week the Popfly team added something really new
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:31 PM

Watching Students Grow Up

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/04/watching-students-grow-up.aspx'; I have to say that I feel very fortunate that so many of my former students still keep in touch. A lot of them have “friended” me in Facebook. Others regularly
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Friday, May 02, 2008 1:50 PM

Top Posts For April

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/02/top-posts-for-april.aspx'; To be honest I am writing this a little early because I am on vacation today. So it is possible that one of the posts from this week should be in this list but isn’t.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:47 AM

How is a Classroom Like a Pizza Place

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/01/how-is-a-classroom-like-a-pizza-place.aspx'; I grew up in New York (Brooklyn actually) and like many New Yorkers I have a distinct bias toward New York pizzas. So a blog post by Leigh Ann Sudol
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