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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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Interesting Links Post November 2 2009
One interesting thing that happened to me this past week was that Twitter enabled the list function for my Twitter account (@ AlfredTwo ) Lists are a way to create lists or groups of the people you follow on Twitter. One can open up your lists ( or public Read More...

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 5:02 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Zune HD as a programming/teaching platform?
The idea of games that use accelerometers strikes me as particularly interesting an several levels. The most obvious is for creating games of course. But looking deeper I like the idea that one could teach things with the right software. Things around Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:37 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Teacher Web Sites
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Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:29 PM by Alfred Thompson | 9 Comments

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

Bing, Explicit Content and Safe Searching For Schools
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Posted Sunday, June 21, 2009 6:13 PM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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

No Subject Is Boring With The Right Teacher
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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:01 AM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Interesting Links May 18 2009
One of the things looking back on a list of links that I have Twittered shows me is that I have been getting information from a wide range of people. Some are from industry people especially Microsoft people and some are from educators. Others are from Read More...

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 5:09 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Links Twittered April 27th 2009
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Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 4:47 AM 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

Teacher Tech Tuesday Erin Gruwell of the Freedom Writers Foundation
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Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 5:20 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Are You Ready to go to NECC? Register for the Microsoft Teacher Scholarship!
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Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:18 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Ada Lovelace Day – Women in Technology
This is my Ada Lovelace Day post as promised in January . Today well over a thousand bloggers are posting posts about women in technology who they admire. The goal is the present role models to young women and girls as well as to highlight and honor the Read More...

Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 7:46 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Monday Morning Links – March 03, 2009
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Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 7:01 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

It’s in the eyes
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Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:10 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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