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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.

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September 2012

  1. Don’t Panic

August 2012

  1. Computer Controversies For Fun and Discussion
  2. Cloud Fundamentals Video Series
  3. Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
  4. Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
  5. Interesting Links 27 August 2012
  6. Online Coding Exercises For Programming Education
  7. Interesting Links 20 August 2012
  8. How To Read Code
  9. Try Kinect at your K-12 School
  10. Recursion First
  11. Interesting Links 13 August 2012
  12. Public Sector TechBytes Series
  13. 2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
  14. You're invited to a Windows 8 DevCamp in city near you

July 2012

  1. Interesting Links 30 July 2012
  2. Curriculum is Hard
  3. Interesting Links 23 July 2012
  4. 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Day One
  5. Interesting Links 16 July 2012
  6. Post CS & IT 2012 Thoughts
  7. Tip Calculator Hands On Lab for Windows Phone
  8. Computational Fairy Tales the Book
  9. Teaching Teachers
  10. Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Live Stream 2012
  11. Where is the computer science at ISTE?

June 2012

  1. Computer Science in the Common Core–Speak Up
  2. Studio K – Program to make Kodu Curriculum and Tools more accessible in Classrooms
  3. Why I Love Windows Live Mesh
  4. Microsoft Store Summer Camps are Now Open for Registration!
  5. So you want to teach computer science?
  6. There Is More To Computing Than Computer Science

May 2012

  1. How do they know they are interested?
  2. Kinect for Windows: SDK and Runtime version 1.5 Released
  3. Be What’s Next!
  4. What should the High School CS curriculum look like?
  5. Please Don’t Learn To Code
  6. Student Implemented SharePoint Solutions
  7. Learning Should Be Fun
  8. Game Design with XNA, Kinect and Windows Phone
  9. A reminder–CS & IT Conference 2012
  10. Interesting Links 7 May 2012
  11. New Podcast Series - The Campus Coder

April 2012

  1. Interesting Links 30 April 2012
  2. Fun is to Entertainment as Education is to Training
  3. US Imagine Cup Winners 2012
  4. Interesting Links 23 April 2012
  5. Computer Science Across the Curriculum
  6. Better Learning Through Movement
  7. Plagiarism v. Learning
  8. Interesting Links 16 April 2012
  9. Keeping it real
  10. Recognizing Teachers Who Recruit Women and Girls into STEM
  11. What Do Magic and Computer Science Have in Common?
  12. dream.build.play reminder
  13. Interesting Links Post 9 April 2012
  14. Learn The Cloud. Make A Difference. @home with Windows Azure
  15. Women In Computer Science–What Happened?
  16. 2012 US Imagine Cup People’s Choice Voting

March 2012

  1. Why Universities Should Host High School Programming Contests
  2. Who Is In Charge
  3. The Best and Most Innovative Teachers
  4. Interesting Links 19 March 2012
  5. ChronoZoom–a new way to look at history
  6. Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
  7. Tic Tac Toe for Windows Phone
  8. Interesting Links 12 March 2012
  9. Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
  10. CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
  11. More on Signing Up for DreamSpark and AppHub
  12. Interesting Links 5 March 2012
  13. Wouldn’t It Be Cool If…
  14. It Doesn’t Pay To Be Too Clever

February 2012

  1. Microsoft at SIGCSE 2012
  2. One week left to enter the Kinect Fun Labs Challenge!
  3. Interesting Links 27 February 2012
  4. Tutorials, Projects and Problem Solving
  5. Big Brother Knows More Than You Think
  6. Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum–Reminder
  7. ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft
  8. Interesting Links 20 February 2012
  9. How To Start A Computer Science Flame War
  10. National STEM Video Game Challenge TweetChat
  11. Microsoft Developer Day: Entertainment Reimagined
  12. Magic Numbers Are Bad
  13. Interesting Links 13 February 2012
  14. Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
  15. Hello From Texas
  16. Tools for Teaching Adults to Program
  17. Interesting Links 6 February 2012
  18. When Just Working Isn’t Good Enough
  19. Kinect For Windows Is Out
  20. No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule

January 2012

  1. Are You Applying for the 2012 US Forum?
  2. Interesting Posts 30 January 2012
  3. Kinect Sweepstakes For Schools
  4. Inviting ALL EDUCATORS to share their GREAT IDEAS
  5. We Need A Wider Conversation on CS Education
  6. One Option for How to Teach Kodu
  7. Interesting Links 23 January 2012
  8. Time Flies When Learning Is Fun
  9. Interesting Links 16 January 2012
  10. Teaching Teachers and Students Together
  11. Interesting Links 9 January 2012
  12. Kinect for FRC 2012
  13. CS & IT 2012–Participate Actively!
  14. Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition
  15. Computer Science Orphans
  16. Interesting Links 02 January 2012

December 2011

  1. Let’s go do some math
  2. Top Most Read Posts of 2011
  3. Kinect Educators
  4. One Compile A Day
  5. Textbooks–The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  6. Help Shape the CSTA Annual Conference: Be a Proposal Reviewer
  7. CS AP Principles–UW Bothell
  8. Interesting Links 19 December 2011
  9. First Do No Harm
  10. Pick The Software First
  11. Creating Engineers One Student At A Time
  12. Year Up Visits the MTC
  13. Interesting Links 12 December 2011
  14. Why I’m Still Excited about Computer Science
  15. Computer Science Education Blog Roll
  16. Could You Pass the AP Computer Science Exam?
  17. Bentley’s CIS Sandbox
  18. Interesting Links 5 December 2011
  19. CS Bits & Bytes From the National Science Foundation

November 2011

  1. 12th Annual Computer Science & Information Technology Conference.
  2. Interesting Links 28 November 2011
  3. Programming for Absolute Beginners from Channel 9
  4. The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back
  5. Interesting Links 21 November 2011
  6. Big App On Campus
  7. Collection of Kinect in Education Links
  8. C# Mini Course
  9. Leading With Kinect
  10. Computer Science at the Microsoft Global Forum
  11. Python, Visual Studio and Kinect
  12. Teacher Trainer Professional Development Program
  13. How Many Sorting Algorithms Do Beginners Need To Learn
  14. What To Tell Students About Computer Science

October 2011

  1. Kinect-ing at the NJSBA Annual Workshop
  2. Interesting Links 24 October 2011
  3. More Access to the ACM Digital Library
  4. Imagine Cup as Group Projects
  5. How Many Jobs Are There For Poets
  6. New Hampshire TechFest 2011
  7. Interesting Links 17 October 2011
  8. Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science

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