Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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Take a Look at the Next Generation Lego MindStorms

The people from Lego visited the Microsoft campus to show off the latest version of the Lego robotics hardware – MindStorms NXT. There is a video of the visit at On10. It looks really cool and it is scheduled to hit retail stores this week just in time for my birthday at the end of the week. I think I need to send a link to the video to my wife.

Mindstorms NXT is one of the hardware platforms that are supported by the Microsoft Robotics Studio. Randy Trower who runs the MS Robotics program is also on the video and talks about working with Lego and about the Robotics Studio.