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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

Interesting Links October 12 2009
Well here it is Columbus Day and my home wi-fi is dead – long story. So I drove to the library to use their wi-fi. And they are closed. Closed on a holiday? I guess it make some sense. Fortunately the wi-fi reaches the parking lot and so I sit here working Read More...

Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 10:44 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

Computer Science Teachers and Web 2.0
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Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 1:51 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Exceptions, Data Validation and Political Correctness
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Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:12 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Links Twittered April 13 2009
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Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 5:41 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

The Problem with Lists
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Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 12:26 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

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Teaching Office Resources, University Lectures, Things Found on Twitter
Twitter continues to grow as part of my professional learning network. This week I learned about a number of new resources for training, teaching and learning. For example, from MSOfficeResKit   I learned about a large set of customizable training Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:44 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Top 10 Education People to Follow on Twitter
This is a list of the people I know who are twittering about education (in general – not much CS education) and who I think are the people to follow if you are looking for people to follow on twitter about education. If you are looking for a very scientific Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:16 PM by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments

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LearnScratch.ORG
I keep learning cool things from Twitter. No really. The people I follow are often doing interesting and educational things and sharing via Twitter. Last week someone posted a Tweet about http://learnscratch.org/ . I made a note to visit the site and Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:00 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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