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Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:43 AM

Teacher Favorite Templates: Ms. Stivers for 6th and 7th grade

OK these teacher templates recommendations from LeeAnn Stivers who teaches at the International School in Bellevue, Washington look awesome to me. Grade book, curriculum planners, a seating chart tool using PowerPoint and more. They were all done for
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:25 PM

Educational Uses For Collections of Images

My wife does a middle school research project using “landmarks” as a theme. Students research places like the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and on and on. Obviously images are a part of this project. Students, especially today, are interested in what things
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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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Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:26 AM

Visual Declarative Designer

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Declarative Designer - looks like. This one really deserves the “toy”
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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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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:25 AM

Teaching Flowcharts – Have the Computer Draw One

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Programming Flow Chart - looks like. It’s really pretty simple to use.
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Monday, July 28, 2008 6:05 AM

trueSpace7.6 FREE Fully-featured 3D Authoring Package

Several months ago Microsoft acquired a company called Caligari largely because of their advanced 3D toolset called trueSpace . Well now the latest version of this powerful tool is available for free . Yes, the favorite price point for educational organizations!
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Friday, July 25, 2008 5:43 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0

The Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 was originally created by Microsoft China to help meet the curriculum needs for teaching programming in that country. According to regulations/policies of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) almost
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:08 AM

Looking For More Computer Science Teacher Blogs

In my RSS reader (and in my blog roll on the sidebar) I have seven other blogs that focus mostly on high school computer science education. Some of those bloggers post more than others (Tom I’m waiting for another update) but they are all interesting
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Friday, July 18, 2008 11:22 AM

Popfly Lessons

There are a lot of very interesting computer science topics that typically have to wait a while before being taught. Or that people have to learn a whole lot of “plumbing” to use. Among these are things like XML, RSS, and using maps (the where things
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:04 AM

New Computing Journal from SIGCT

ISTE’s Computer Teacher special interest group is made up of a really good group of teachers. Among other things I have found useful from my membership over the years has been the list of NECC sessions of interest (latest list is at the SIGCT wiki ) and
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:25 AM

Computer Labs As Crutch

I ran into a thought provoking blog post the other day. Mike Sansone is a blog coach – a consultant who makes a living helping people blog better – wrote a post called “ Are Computer Labs a Crutch? ” In it he says that “ the computer lab shouldn't be
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments
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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:58 PM

Above & Beyond Awards - Massachusetts

The Mass Technology Leadership Council is a great organization of people and companies in the high technology industry in Massachusetts. One of their big interests in supporting teachers who are using innovation in teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:15 PM

The State of the Education Blogosphere

Controversy is nothing new for education and the rise of education blogs is not exempt from that reality. The latest is over the domination of the education blogosphere by tech education bloggers. The second big group by the way is education policy bloggers
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