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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:07 AM

Microsoft Institute

Here is something more for the administration side of the education business. Microsoft Institute Overview Participate in a unique professional development experience that will provide you and your organization with tools and resources to create and support
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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:15 AM

Friday Misc Links – August 8 2008

Found a few good nuggets to share with people. Robots If you are in to robots or know someone who is I saw this announcement from the Microsoft Robotics team blog . The RoboChamps Amazed Challenge is over and the winners have been announced. However,
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Friday, August 01, 2008 6:56 AM

Attracting Young Women to Software-Related and Other Engineering Fields: We've Been on The Wrong Track All Along

David Klappholz asked me to post this and let any interested LA-area high school computer science teachers know about it. This looks like a very interesting event and if you are in the LA-area please check out. And if you do go please take notes and if
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:22 AM

Foundations Of Digital Games Conference

The Game Development in Computer Science Education conference has been renamed and this year’s event is called the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games . This is the premier educational conference for faculty who use game
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:16 PM

NECC 2008 Trip Report

The first thing you have to realize about NECC is that it is huge. There are somewhere between 12,000 and 13,000 attendees and about 4,000 exhibitor staff. There are 8-9 concurrent session slots a day with about 25 sessions in each slot. Plus there are
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:17 AM

Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2008

I’ve been to most of the CS & IT symposiums at NECC (and the one at SIGCSE) over the years but today’s was by far the best. Every year the speakers get better. The number and range of sessions gets better. The number of people gets larger (this year’s
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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:44 AM

A Technology Conference That Bans Technology

[Note: Since this was posted ISTE has made some changes to the good. More details in a comment by Miguel Guhlin below and on his blog .] NECC is the largest educational technology conference in the world. It’s huge. There are thousands of educators who
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:56 AM

Getting Ready for NECC

It’s just over a week until I head out (down to?) San Antonio for this year’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC). I’ll start on Saturday the 28th with the annual CS & IT Symposium . This year’s event looks to be the best yet. I hope to
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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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Monday, April 28, 2008 7:58 AM

Trip Report – Summit (NJ) Schools

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/28/trip-report-summit-nj-high-school.aspx'; Last week I took a trip down to Summit High School to take part in a teacher workshop day. There were about 200 teachers from the high school and middle
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Friday, March 21, 2008 7:05 AM

CS & IT Symposium at NECC 2008

The information and registration page is up for this year's CS & IT Symposium at NECC this summer. Some of the announcement is below: Take advantage of this opportunity for relevant professional development! Explore issues and trends relating directly
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Monday, March 17, 2008 11:18 AM

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 visit with a lot of old friends and meet some new ones. I was also able to attend some of the sessions though not as many as I would have liked. Too many
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:54 AM

MIX 08 Sessions OnLine

The MIX conference is a major Microsoft conference on web development and design. It was run in Las Vegas last week. I didn't get to go. Probably you didn't go either. The good news is that most of the sessions from MIX are now online for on demand viewing.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:56 AM

More on the GDCSE Conference

So I'm still way behind on blogging to say nothing of my email. I spent the last day as a vacation day with my father who I don't see often enough. I've also been fixing his computer, showing how to use his new GPS device, and setting up his DVD player.
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Monday, March 03, 2008 3:15 PM

Game Development in Computer Science Education Day 1

I am on the M/V Celebrity Century at sea out of Miami as I write this. The Internet is expensive and I'm not sure I want to spend the money for it. These are my first day notes and while I intended to write every night the need for sleep overtook me after
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