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Top 10 – Teaching Kids To Code
Sunday, July 12th, 2009For those of you that follow this blog, you know I have a passion for K12 computer programming. I have two boys (10 and 6) and want to prepare them for skills they might need in the future. At a recent presentation for my 10 yr old’s class I told the kids -”There are two [...]
Sun Adds Its Support to ‘Alice’
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Sun Microsystems is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to support the continuing development of Alice
Way to go Sun! This is great news…
Sun Adds Its Support to ‘Alice’
Great Randy Pausch Quotes
Sunday, July 27th, 2008I have been a huge fan of the remarkable Randy Pausch for a while now. I held off reading his book because I thought I knew the whole story already. Friday as sort of a tribute to his family I purchased the book and read it on my plane ride back from BWI [...]
How to improve Randy Pausch’s Alice
Friday, April 11th, 2008If you have not heard the story of the dying professor you should pause right now and check this out … Now that you are back, here are some of my thoughts on how to improve “Alice“. I noticed a posting in the CSDiary yesterday about the “Status of the Alice Project” by Peter [...]
Seven Core Competencies for Third Graders – Podcast
Friday, March 21st, 2008I gave this presentation to my sons third grade class today. It was a blast.
Here is the podcast
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What Does Bob Want?
Friday, March 21st, 2008My son and I created this little 3D animation story using Alice from Carnegie Mellon. If you are interested in teaching kids how to program you should really check out Alice and Story Telling Alice.
More What Does Bob Want stuff…
Seven Core Competencies for Third Graders
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I have been working on a white paper called “Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation” and was recently sidelined by my nine-year-old. He’s fascinated by things like twitter and my blog site and all this weird stuff his dad does. He is constantly trying to get me to explain to him what all these [...]
Six Million People Have Seen This Guy, Have You?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Randy Pausch the creator of Alice.
I’ll Admit It I Cry Every Time I See this Guy
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Randy Pausch
My original blog post on Randy Pausch…
Uber Virtual World Guru’s Final Accomplishment
Uber Virtual World Guru’s Final Accomplishment
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007When I asked my oncologist if I could go scuba diving, he thought for a while and said, “Medically, I can’t think of any reason you can’t …. but I have to admit, it’s not a question that comes up very often for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients!”
