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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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Web 2.0 and Other Educational Resources from Microsoft
OK, this may not be the definitive index to Microsoft resources for teachers but it’s close. Something for everyone from elementary school English teachers to high school science teachers (check out the world wide telescope) to high school computer science Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:53 PM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Interesting Links October 5 2009
Today is World Teacher’s Day . On behalf on myself, thanks for all you teachers do every day. I hope your students, their parents and especially your administration appreciates you. And now a few links that I hope you will find useful and interesting Read More...

Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 4:13 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting Links Labor Day 2009
I’m not really working today. Well just this post really. For the most part I have been largely offline for Labor Day weekend. Enjoying family, sun, books, and relaxing. My wife and son start school with their students tomorrow. They’ve been doing the Read More...

Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 11:41 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting Links Twittered July 20 2009
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Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 4:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Recent Links Twittered April 03 2009
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Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 5:22 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Teacher Tech Tuesdays January 2009
The Teacher Tech Tuesday program (last blogged about here ) is dedicated to helping teachers and academic administrators get more out of Microsoft products. The goal is to help bring technology in to classrooms as a tool to teach other subject and not Read More...

Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 6:01 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

OneNote Videos on TeacherTube
Mike Tholfsen , the OneNote Ninja , found some time to record and upload a bunch of videos about OneNote to Teacher Tube . The video he did on the OneNote 2007 Toolkit for Teachers is included in the collection. Mike is promising a bunch more that are Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:16 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Math In Office
OK here is another link for you math teachers out there. Murray Sargent has a blog called Math in Office that as you might expect focuses on mathematics related features and tools with Microsoft Office. Sample interesting looking posts include: Hidden Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:39 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

May Posts in Review
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/06/03/may-posts-in-review.aspx'; May was an interesting month for me in several ways. One area that I struggled with though was blogging. Perhaps it is because the school year is winding down but Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Short Office Tutorials
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/23/short-office-tutorials.aspx'; Community Clips is a new (well new to me) site supported by Microsoft Office Labs that lets users create, upload, and view videos of how to do things using Microsoft Read More...

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 5:35 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Search Commands For Office
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/09/search-commands-for-office.aspx'; The Internet and blogging are wonderful things. Yesterday I blogged about a set of tools for helping people find the Office 2007 location for commands based Read More...

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 6:11 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Where On the Ribbon Is That Office Feature?
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/07/where-on-the-ribbon-is-that-office-feature.aspx'; I’ve talked to a number of teachers recently who teach the Office Suite as part of a computer applications courses lately. A good number of Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:33 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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