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Interesting Links 17 August 2015
read moreMy summer break is almost over. Many of you are back already. Where does the time fly? Last week was interesting and I started (finally) to work on my course outlines for the coming year....
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So You Think You Want To Be A Computer Science Teacher?
read moreRecently I was asked an interesting question: “if a foresighted student asked how to prepare to be a CS teacher, what advice would you give him or her?” My initial reaction was that I would...
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How I Spent My Summer Break From School
read moreI’m in school today – first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I always tell myself that I’m going to spend the summer doing...
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Interesting Links 24 August 2015
read moreI meet my freshmen today! Yeah! I am excited. I’m pretty sure I’m ready. I’ve even got a new LCD projector. Although as someone pointed out it is a little sad that I am excited about getting...
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Are You Ever Really Ready?
read moreLast year I changed (improved I hope) every PowerPoint deck I used based on how the presentation when and how I realized I could make things more clear. Over the summer I revisited many of...
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Interesting Links 31 September 2015
read more Well school is back for real now. I had students in class most of last week so we’re completely live. I have great students. My Honors Programming class has a bunch of self-starters who have...
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NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2016
read moreIt’s that time again! Visit the website at https://www.aspirations.org/ for more information but I have included some details to get you thinking. From the web site: Applications for the 2016...
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Call for proposals now open for the 2016 CSTA Annual Conference
read moreIt seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conference was just released. I’ve presented a number of...
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CSTA Now Accepting Applications for Cutler-Bell Prize
read moreThis is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the annual ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell...
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Interesting Links 7 September 2015
read moreLabor Day weekend in the US. A four day weekend and I am exhausted from it. Maybe I need to get back to school to rest up. OK not really but it has been a busy weekend. Lots to do around the...
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Complicated Solutions To Simple Problems
read moreI found this on the Internet today via Twitter.It works. Well more or less. I can imagine cases where it might not but they include other problems. It’s not very efficient. A simple bit of...
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Bebras Computing Challenge
read moreThis is a new one to me but it looks interesting. I like that it runs down to grades lower than high school. In 2014, almost a million participants across 34 countries participated in the...
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How Young Should We Start Teaching Computer Science?
read moreThe other day I read about a new book in the works for teaching Boolean concepts to babies. Yes Babies. A computer scientist is writing a book about programming for babies Seriously?...
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Interesting links 14 September 2015
read moreLast week was fun. I have great students. One thing I did this week was to create a scaffold program for my Honors Programming students. Just a basic user interface so what we could focus on...
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New Free APCS curriculum using Processing and GitHub
read moreI found this on a mailing list last week. I haven’t looked to closely at it since we haven’t decided to go with AP CSP at my school yet but it sounds interesting. I posted my new APCS course...
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2015 Faces of Computing Competition
read moreAs a member of the CSTA Equity Committee I am please to pass along the announcement of our annual Faces of Computing Competition. In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA will be hosting its annual video...
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New York City–Computer Science for All
read moreNew York is embarking on what may be the most ambitious effort to bring computer science education to all the students in a district in the US today. The program is called Computer Science for...
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So Much Computer Science–So Little Time
read moreI went into the other computer lab today to get some paper for my lab’s printer. The Advanced Placement Computer Science class was in there at the time. Most of the people there took my Honors...
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Service Learning in AP CS A
read moreYet another interesting curriculum program. This one a pilot program by the College Board. Versions of a service oriented curriculum for six AP courses including Advanced Placement Computer...
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Microsoft To Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education
read moreLast week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer science for all youth worldwide. A big part of that...
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