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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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Project Learning
Joel Spolsky is an interesting guy with strong opinions about software development and the education of people going into software development. Recently he posted a blog article called Capstone projects and time management which is pretty critical of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:49 PM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Interesting Links September 26 2009
Windows 7 released to the general public last week so I have to start with a couple of Windows 7 links. OK maybe I don’t *have* to but there are a couple I wanted to share. From the Teacher Tech blog there is a list of 7 things teachers will like about Read More...

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 5:15 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

The Role Model Problem
A bunch of my friends are at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing this week. I’m following some of it on Twitter (look for the #ghc09 tag ) and on the Grace Hopper Bloggers blog. I think this is a wonderful event and people I know who go Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:47 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Why Does Diversity Matter
One of the things I make clear in a lot of talks and meetings is that I want to see more women and minorities in the computer field. Surprisingly a lot of people ask me “ why?” I get that question from women and minorities as much if not more than I do Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:21 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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CareerForward: Career Preparation in a Global Economy (cFWD)
Since I was offline for much of last week and didn’t have the time to find new things I thought that the start of the new school year would be a good time to re-introduce a program I have blogged about before. At the start of the year seniors are starting Read More...

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 8:42 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Interesting Links July 27th 2009
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Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 3:19 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Summer Webcast Series for Interns and Recent Graduates
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Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:03 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Useful Links June 8 2009
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Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 5:33 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Computers In The Court
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Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:54 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Students 2 Business or School To Work
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Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:44 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Microsoft’s Student TV
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Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:43 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Links Twittered April 13 2009
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Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 5:41 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

DigiGirlz Cambridge MA 2009
Yesterday I attended my first DigiGirlz event. While this was my first DdigiGirlz event it was my third “career” event in three work days. And of them were different. Last Thursday was a sort of career fair with tables set up by different companies and Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:42 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Turning Pro
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Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 10:32 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

DigiGirlz Events in March And April
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Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 8:24 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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