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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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Beware Boring The Smart Kids
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Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:59 AM by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments

Making a List, Checking it Twice
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Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 12:29 PM by Alfred Thompson | 9 Comments

Where Does DreamSpark High School Fit In
Every since the public announcement of DreamSpark for High School I’ve been getting questions about how DreamSpark fits in with the MSDN Academic Alliance High School program. The answer is that basically the MSDN AA program is designed to provide software Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:23 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

When To Take Programming
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Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 6:52 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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

DreamSpark High School Now Open
Dreamspark is a program that Microsoft first announced last year for college and university students. Ever since then a Dreamspark program for high schools has been “coming.” Well just before Christmas a beta version of the program and web site soft launched. Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 7:50 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Useful Web Links for Computer Science Teachers
I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some new things. Some things have new addresses. And the order of things changes for the audience. This list is from Read More...

Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 5:20 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

An Expression Web Video Tutorial
Randy Guthrie has posted a very nice 34 minute long video tutorial on how to create a personal web site using Expression Web. Expression Web is free for schools though the MSDN AA program . For college/university students it is also free through the Dreamspark Read More...

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 7:50 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Silverlight, Popfly, and other Software Trailers
I'm very lucky to be working with a bunch of bright young people. Well they don't always think of themselves as young but since I have a son older than most of them they seem young to me. These guys are talented in many areas but it is their use of new Read More...

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 11:10 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Join The Conversation - Girls On The Web and Other Topics
I'm away on a gaming in computer science conference and while I really wanted to have a lot of great blog posts for you all to enjoy and learn from it's been tough getting all the things done that I needed to get done. But I did want to make sure some Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:44 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use
OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The official press release is here BTW) So I'm kind of late to the party already. Channel 8 is going to be a key source Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:50 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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