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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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Free Copy Of OneNote for Teachers
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about upcoming free online presentations in the education area from various people at Microsoft. (See that post and the full list here .) Well Mike Tholfsen has announced on his blog that any teacher who attends this week’s Read More...

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:09 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

Getting Ready for NECC
It’s just over a week until I head out (down to?) San Antonio for this year’s National Education Computing Conference (NECC). I’ll start on Saturday the 28th with the annual CS & IT Symposium . This year’s event looks to be the best yet. I hope to Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:56 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 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

Some New Education Technology Blogs
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/21/some-new-education-technology-blogs.aspx'; A couple of people I know and respect have jumped into the blogosphere in the last week or so. They have both been helpful to me with information Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:16 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Tablet PCs in the K12 Classroom
I found a bunch of new information and case studies about schools using Tablet PCs across the curriculum and thought I would share it. It's not computer science but since it is technology in the classroom and using technology to teach better I thought Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:15 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

OneNote and Students, Networks and the Paperless School
I had two notes from Mike Tholfsen last week. Now Mike is the OneNote Ninja - there is not much about OneNote he doesn't know. But Mike also has a passion for education and where OneNote and education mix (which they do very well) Mike is nothing short Read More...

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 8:14 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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