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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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Documentation – It Really Does Have Value
I installed some software this morning. Every indication is that it is just what I am looking for for a project I have in mind. It is touted as easy to use. There is source code available even. Supposedly there is documentation as well. But I can’t find Read More...

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 1:47 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

CareerForward: Career Preparation in a Global Economy (cFWD)
Since I was offline for much of last week and didn’t have the time to find new things I thought that the start of the new school year would be a good time to re-introduce a program I have blogged about before. At the start of the year seniors are starting Read More...

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 8:42 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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Can we talk? Learning, Conversations and Networking
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Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:20 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Drive out fear
One of the great opportunities I had in my earlier career as a software developer was to take W. Edwards Deming’s famous 4 day course. From Deming himself. For those who may not be aware of Deming he is the man created with helping to turn Japan from Read More...

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 4:51 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

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Beware Boring The Smart Kids
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Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:59 AM by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments

Learning Because You Want To
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Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:02 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

What It Is Like to be A Student?
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Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 11:35 PM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

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Project Tuva – a new way to teach and learn
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Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:22 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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When the power goes off in the computer lab
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Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:30 PM by Alfred Thompson | 9 Comments

Gotta Have IT
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Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 2:16 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Real Life Is An Open Book Test
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Posted Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:46 PM by Alfred Thompson | 6 Comments

How Much Feedback Can You Give On Projects?
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Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:34 AM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

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No Subject Is Boring With The Right Teacher
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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:01 AM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Ada Lovelace Day – Women in Technology
This is my Ada Lovelace Day post as promised in January . Today well over a thousand bloggers are posting posts about women in technology who they admire. The goal is the present role models to young women and girls as well as to highlight and honor the Read More...

Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 7:46 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

Same and Different
I learn a lot from blogs. For example this morning I read a post at the CSTA blog by Myra Deister who shares a great idea under the heading An Effective ELL Strategy for Computer Science Classes . For me one of the challenges in teaching, especially computer Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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