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Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:43 AM

Teacher Favorite Templates: Ms. Stivers for 6th and 7th grade

OK these teacher templates recommendations from LeeAnn Stivers who teaches at the International School in Bellevue, Washington look awesome to me. Grade book, curriculum planners, a seating chart tool using PowerPoint and more. They were all done for
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:25 PM

Educational Uses For Collections of Images

My wife does a middle school research project using “landmarks” as a theme. Students research places like the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and on and on. Obviously images are a part of this project. Students, especially today, are interested in what things
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Monday, August 25, 2008 5:12 AM

Five Minutes is a Long Time

Mark Twain once said “ I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” If you have any doubts about the truth in that statement try to write a five minute presentation sometime. Last week I did just that – twice. Last Thursday
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Friday, August 22, 2008 5:33 AM

Reality Check: Laws of Identity

Kim Cameron is one of the top experts on identity and personal information management in the world. He may be best known for his Laws of Identity . Over at the Identity Blog he has listed these laws in easy to understand English . They are also listed
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:25 AM

Kick Off Meetings

My wife is in new teacher orientation this week. She’s helping teachers new to the district understand how things work there. Next week all the teachers will be in for meetings. This is a typical way for the school year to start. I’ve been seeing Twitter
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Monday, August 18, 2008 10:01 AM

New Web Design Curriculum Released

Are you looking for ways to engage your students in 21 st century learning? Would you like to generate enthusiasm and excitement about using technology in your classroom on a daily basis? Are your students interested in developing skills they can employ
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:16 PM

Fall Is Education’s Spring

I have a guest post up at the CSTA blog today. The CSTA blog is running a series of posts about people’s first day of school. That means different things to different people and I give my take at it there . I see fall as a sort of spring for education.
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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:11 AM

GridWorld RolePlay Online

If you are an AP CS teacher one of the things that is an important part of your curriculum is the GridWorld case study. The case study is one of the key pieces of the APCS exam and understanding how it works and being able to use and modify it is very
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:58 PM

The Language is NOT the Important Thing

Invariably when anyone posts about “the right” programming language to use in a first course a lot of discussion ensues. People are notoriously opinionated about this topic. I am not exempt from this and I admit that I have fallen into this trap in the
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:27 AM

Teaching Casting

I love a good analogy. Actually I even like so-so analogies. But this one about casting variables from Rob Miles is a particularly good one I think. I can see saying “and now playing the role of an integer is 3.14159” What was that you are asking? Well
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:26 AM

Visual Declarative Designer

Last week the Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Toy was announced and I wrote about it in my blog . Today I wanted to give people a taste of what one of the features – the Visual Declarative Designer - looks like. This one really deserves the “toy”
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:40 AM

Teaching About Error Messages

Here is a cartoon from Office Offline that reminds me of the sort of messages students used to write. OK maybe they were not that bad. But it was amazing the sort of things students though were acceptable messages. Messages that talked down to people,
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:27 AM

Examples and Exercises

Leigh Ann Sudol has an interesting post titled The Beauty and Elegance of Computer SCIENCE . In it she talks about what makes a good example or exercise and the difference between an exercise and an example. One thing she leaves out, or perhaps just doesn’t
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:12 AM

Periodic Table of Videos

It’s a amazing the teaching aids one can find on the Internet these days. How about a short video including a demo on each of the elements in the periodic table? Yep, there it is! The University of Nottingham has created a periodic table of videos that
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Friday, July 18, 2008 4:15 PM

Turning Consumers into Creators

One of the talks in the Microsoft booth at NECC that I attended was Jacqueline Russell explaining Popfly. One of the things that hit me was when she said the goal behind what her group was doing was to turn “consumers into creators.” I’ve been thinking
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