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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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Goof Off Monday

I have nothing serious today. I sent something to the AP CS mailing list and got back a lot of out of office messages. I'm guessing a lot of people, especially teachers, are just relaxing these days. So today, just ways to have some fun and avoid real work. My friend Hilary sent me the following information last Friday.

We recently asked a number of students to use Popfly and submit a Popfly creation (a mash-up or a game).  10 of the games that were created were picked by the Popfly Team in the Games We Love  http://popflywiki.com/GamesWeLove.ashx entry in the Popfly wiki.

Please find the links below … beware … these games are fun!

http://www.popfly.com/users/mtaipan/theGunner

http://www.popfly.com/users/solidcell/Move%20It

http://www.popfly.com/users/karafong/ChickyBang

http://www.popfly.com/users/Dauble2k5/Shoot%20for%20the%20Stars

http://www.popfly.com/users/sachint/Demon%20Attack

http://www.popfly.com/users/hcnguyen88/ninjaDuel

http://www.popfly.com/users/Borealid/Bouncing%20Babies

http://www.popfly.com/users/dinko628/football

http://www.popfly.com/users/DarkStarX1/Alien%20Invaders

Now if you insist on educational value you can open up and see how each of those games was developed and modify them to suit yourself. Go ahead and list this as research.

Published Monday, July 21, 2008 5:49 AM by Alfred Thompson

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# http://blogs.msdn.com/springboard/archive/2008/07/24/popfly-game-creator-games-by-students.aspx @ Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:06 PM

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