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Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:45 PM

The Future of K-12 Blogging

There are a couple of things that I think should happen with regards to K-12 blogging. I’d like to think that they will happen but the reality is that education does not respond quickly to new technology. We’re still not using computers in the classroom
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments
Friday, December 30, 2005 1:45 PM

LEARNING HOW TO CREATE PORTALS USING DOTNETNUKE

Brian Scarbeau has an announcement in his blog about a series of web casts he is presenting for high school teachers. It is all about using Dot Net Nuke . Brian uses DNN for his own web site and as a teaching tool in his web design course. Visit Brian's
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:01 PM

Weed them out or teach better?

I don't know how many teachers are reading blogs during the Christmas break (or the winter break between now and New Years) but I hope some of you are reading this one. Joel Spolsky has a very interesting entry called The Perils of JavaSchools . No it
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:06 PM

Teachers and Christmas Break

Do you (if you are a teacher) assign projects over the winter holiday break? If you are not a teacher what do you think are the pros and cons of doing so? How about your own activities over the holiday? Other than catching up with grading (which I know
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:46 AM

Women in Computer Science

The debate over the shortage of Computer Science graduates has brought the issue of women in Computer Science back into focus again. Of course for those people who look into their high school COMPUTER SCIENCE classrooms and see nothing but male faces
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 6 Comments
Monday, December 19, 2005 8:04 AM

Free Training

I know that a lot of teachers are starting to think about upgrading their courses from Visual Basic 6.0 to the latest Visual Studio 2005 or ASP to ASP .NET 2.0 but are concerned about how they are going to learn what they need to know. I just found out
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:42 PM

Thank You Oregon

I'd just like to say hello to any of the teachers at the workshop in Canby Oregon today who stop by the blog. I had a wonderful time talking to you all about my favorite programming language, Visual Basic .NET. I hope you had a worthwhile time. I know
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:56 PM

Visual Basic Course Link and Textbook Links

I found an interesting high school Visual Basic course web site recently. I thought I would share it with others and ask anyone reading this to send me links to others. Or leave a comment with a link. One of the things I think would be very useful would
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Monday, December 12, 2005 6:56 AM

Programming an Xbox 360 Controller

OK so not everyone has been able to get an Xbox 360 yet. (I don't have one.) And of course even fewer can develop programs for them. That requires some very special and hard to get software. But according to Don Box you can at least get an Xbox controller
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Monday, December 12, 2005 12:57 AM

Hip Hip Array

Chap Percival has an interesting blog entry (I borrowed his title for this post) in which he talks about how he explains why array indexes start at zero. He gets into the math of it - data size in bytes, calculating offsets, and that sort of stuff. I
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Saturday, December 10, 2005 4:45 PM

Engineering Education in K-12

Are you looking for resources for teaching engineering in K-12? The ASEE ( American Society for Engineering Education ) has some online resources for you . From the About page: The ASEE EngineeringK12 Center seeks to identify and gather in one place the
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:48 PM

Steve Ballmer's Speechwriter Speaks

The latest in a series of interviews with women at Microsoft is with Katy Hunter who writes speeches for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Not the sort of job a student would automatically associate with a company like Microsoft but it's an interesting and
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:49 PM

InvenTeams - getting high school students to be inventors

I spent this morning at MIT with Joshua Schuler who is the InvenTeams Grant Officer. I first mentioned InvenTeams back in October in one of my blogs listing resources that I thought would be interesting to computer science and technology teachers. That
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:10 PM

The trouble with test questions

One of my students complained to me about the questions on a test once. The question in question came from a previous Advanced Placement Computer Science exam. The complaint was that the code in the question was bad. It was bad because no one in their
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Monday, December 05, 2005 2:48 PM

A Documentary about Software Development

I found this interesting article at CNET News . Joel Spolsky funded, in part at least, a documentary film about his company's summer interns taking a project and working on it from start to shipment. You can see a trailer and find ordering information
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:01 AM

About training and some projects

Dave Jacobus does a lot of teacher training. As an experienced classroom teacher he has a lot to offer. In a recent blog he talks about his recent training event in Canada and shares some of the more interesting projects he uses.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
 
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