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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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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

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

SIGCSE Day 2 – Craig Mundie Keynote
Last Friday at SIGCSE Craig Mundie gave his keynote titled “Rethinking Computing.” As I see it the key point the made was the idea of a natural user interface replacing the graphical user interface we commonly use today. As part of his talk he showed Read More...

Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 5:29 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

SIGCSE 2009 Day 1
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Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:06 PM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Monday Video Links – 1 26 2009
Occasionally I post a bunch of links on a Friday. Usually I do this because I found a bunch of things during the week that were not enough for a whole detailed blog post but I want to get them in. Usually on a Monday I post something original or that Read More...

Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 11:39 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Surface Technology Development
One of the hottest new technologies in computer interfaces is Microsoft Surface which uses multi-touch to allow several items (like hands for example) to control things happening in software. The hardware for this is a bit expensive. OK it’s a lot expensive. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:40 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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