Are you going to be at SIGCSE in Dallas this week? I get in on Tuesday and with be there until Saturday. I hope that if you are there you will stop by the Microsoft booth and say hello. Attendees will (assuming all goes as planned) get a DVD with software and links to free resources from Microsoft. Links to most of that would be at the new US Teachers web site by later in the week. So if you are not going to SIGCSE you can still get it all from the Internet. So here now the links I have collected over the last week or so.
Nice link from the national Center for Women in Technology (@NCWIT) "Where are the women? We've been here all along." Amber Bouman's "15 Most Important Women in Tech History" Who else would be on your list? Do you and your students know about these women and their contributions?
This interesting ?rant? Want To Be A Game Designer? Learn To Code. has been getting a huge amount of discussion on some game design in education forums. Just how important it is to know how to code to get a job in game design is still an open question but clearly for some companies it is a distinction can can make the difference between getting a job and not even getting an interview. Something to think about for all those clever students who want to design games but who are not interested in doing the work it takes to learn to program.
A reminder from the CSTA Twitter account (are you following @csteachersa yet?) Registration is now open for CS & IT 2011, at Columbia University in New York, NY! www.csitsymposium.org It?s going to be outstanding! Speaking of CSTA, an interesting post on the CSTA blog asks What's Happening in CS in Other Countries If you are reading from outside the US pleas jump over there and leave some information in the comments. Thanks!
Mark Guzdial has another somewhat controversial post titled Improve Computing Education: Take the More-than-Java Pledge where he takes a whack at using Java for a first programming course. The comments are interesting to say the least. More from Mark is this great post called Let's Teach Malware When It's Ready Thinking about it has been distracting. A blog response is coming at some point.
Are you a member of the Innovative Educators Forum? From the people at RT @TeachTec: And btw,we will send you some fun Bing Classroom posters if you apply to IEF by April 1st
Microsoft?s latest Tech Student of the Month is a very interesting student from the University of Texas ? Arlington
Last but far from least, Doug Peterson (@dougpete) has a post called Writing and Sharing Code That talks about the exchange of first a post by him, a Twitter conversation we had, and his writing some code that he shared in a way I could link to in a post of mine. (The Credit Card Project) This is a great example of the sorts of collaboration that blogging, Twitter and other social media can facilitate in ways that were never before possible. Are you sharing your ideas on social media? Why not?
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