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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:07

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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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:31

Teaching the Computer Science Teacher

Garth left a comment on an earlier post of mine that I really think deserves more visibility and discussion. I’ve copied it below (and added some paragraphing): This thread brings up a whole new topic; teacher training. I have a fairly broad based university
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Friday, August 08, 2008 6:15

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

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

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
Monday, July 07, 2008 6:57

Teacher Game Institute

So I’m on vacation this week. I’m trying to stay unplugged and away from the Internet. Time to mentally refresh and relax. But I’ve tried to post a few things of interest this week to keep things going. One of the blogs I have really enjoyed reading the
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:04

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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Monday, June 23, 2008 6:38

RampUp – Learn Microsoft Technology Online

I just found out about the RampUp program. Briefly this is a program that lets people sign up for and take online training on various Microsoft developer technology such as web development and Visual Studio. There are special tracks for Java developers
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Friday, June 20, 2008 12:44

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
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:04 PM

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 in their courses. For some of them at least some of the motivation is to attract more students into their computer science programs. Springbrook High School
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Friday, March 21, 2008 7:05

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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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:51

Summer Robotics Workshops for Faculty

I see that IPRE ( Institute for Personal Robotics in Education ) is running a pair of faculty workshops this summer. We're offering two IPRE Summer Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshops ( K-12 teachers also invited! ). In these workshops we will
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Monday, February 18, 2008 5:02

Summer Workshops for Teachers

I received a pair of announcements about summer workshops for teachers at Carnegie Mellon this summer. having attended a number of workshops at CMU over the years I have come to respect them as about the best learning opportunity a teacher can have. They
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Monday, February 11, 2008 4:15 PM

Alfred On Channel 8

Just in case you wondered what I looked and sounded like, I am in a brief video at Channel 8 right now. This was shot at a wrap up party for members of Microsoft's worldwide academic team so the background noise is a little different from the normal interview
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 11:23

Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection Site For CS, Technology and Math Education

Microsoft’s new Pre-Collegiate Faculty Connection site is where K-12 educators can access resources developed for middle school and high school technology, computer science and math teachers. It's actually been open for a while but only last week did
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