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Monday, August 18, 2008 10:01 AM

New Web Design Curriculum Released

Are you looking for ways to engage your students in 21 st century learning? Would you like to generate enthusiasm and excitement about using technology in your classroom on a daily basis? Are your students interested in developing skills they can employ
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:24 PM

Opening On the Academic Relations Team at Microsoft

Have you ever thought “Alfred has an interesting job. I’ll bet I’d like to do that” or perhaps “I’d love to show Alfred how the job could really be done” or even “Boy I’d like to work with Alfred.” Well if so, there is an opening on the academic relations
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM

May Posts in Review

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/06/03/may-posts-in-review.aspx'; May was an interesting month for me in several ways. One area that I struggled with though was blogging. Perhaps it is because the school year is winding down but
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 5:42 AM

Win Money for Education Technology

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/06/02/win-money-for-education-technology.aspx'; Samsung is running an essay contest that will reward the top winning school with $200,000 worth of Samsung technology, Microsoft software and cash
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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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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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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
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:57 AM

Digital Dorm Room Tour

My friend Edwin is on the road running the northeast leg of the Digital Dorm Room tour . Today he is actually at Brooklyn College which is near and dear to my heart because my wife went there and because it is only blocks away from where I grew up. The
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:29 AM

Students 2 Business - Its About the Jobs

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers with qualified students for entry-level and internship positions. The objective of the S2B program is to inspire local businesses
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Monday, March 24, 2008 11:10 AM

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 themselves as young but since I have a son older than most of them they seem young to me. These guys are talented in many areas but it is their use of new
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Friday, March 14, 2008 4:45 AM

Singularity - A Research Operating System

Microsoft Research has released the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) and it is now available including source code, build tools, test suites and other materials. What is Singularity ? From the project site at CodePlex where you can get the RDK:
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Monday, February 25, 2008 5:09 AM

Time To Take Out The Garbage - The Interview

Channel 9 is one of my favorite tech websites. It's designed and targeted for professional developers but I find that a lot of the videos have educational value for anyone seriously interested in computer science and technology. Many of the videos are
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:35 AM

XNA - Games for the Zune

Well there are always questions about an handheld game device from Microsoft. Well this isn't it. But what the XNA team did announce today is that XNA Game Studio 3.0 will support creating games for the Zune. And yes there will be multi-player games using
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:58 PM

Expression Web Project For Students

[Updated with new project page link .] When I was a student a lot of projects we used to do were poster projects. From what I see in my wife's classroom poster projects are still very common. They are a fun way for students to organize and present the
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
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