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Alfred Thompson posts a set of links each week that are a great source of information.  A few of these that are particularly relevant, find the full article here or follow Alfred on Twitter.

Got girls? Live in Texas? UT Austin has a girls tech camp called FirstBytes that is a summer outreach program for girls. This program is designed to dispel myths and interest young women about computer science. There is a great video on the program at this first bytes video link. I’ve been invited to participate in this each year, but have had conflicts  (This year I’m expecting my second baby).  I’d love to hear from you if you’ve participated.

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Steve Clayton had an interesting post about presenting while people are Twittering. It is a follow up on a great post form about How to Present While People are Twittering by Pistachio recently. Industry is being forced to learn to accept and adapt to Twitter, IM, IRC and other forms of “back channel” discussion during presentations and meetings. There is good and bad to back channels and I think educators need to learn about this.

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  • Anonymous
    March 16, 2009
    My younger sister has applied for the First Bytes Summer Camp. She had to get her science teacher to attest for her. Well, if she is finally accepted, I will have to dish out $100 for her camp deposit.

  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2009
    Wow. I never knew that there is a program like that! I have always been weak in computer science and would like to improve my skills in that area. Thanks for the heads up! I would wait for the next summer camp, which should hopefully be held in 2010. Too bad I missed out on this one! :(

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    October 11, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2009
    Thanks for the information and heads up. Gonna do some research on this summer camp as I plan to enroll my niece in it! :)

  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2009
    definitely following you on twitter.. great article.

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2009
    Brilliant article, but too bad we don't live in Texas. Do you know if such camps are also held in IN? Thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2010
    This is a great idea of a camp. There is a real push to get more girls interested in math and computer science. I'm sure that this camp will help accomplish that.

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    February 18, 2010
    Nice article! very interesting information you got there. Thanks for sharing this.