Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
I had a great week last week. Long but great. I finished up with two conferences where for once I was not presenting. On the other hand the next time I go to either of them I just might present. Friday was the Going Local with Social Media Conference conference at Bentley University. There was some really high powered quite knowledgeable people talking about using social media in business and industry. I learned a good bit and heard some good speakers. Saturday was something completely different – Ed Camp Boston. EdCamp was about teachers and education. EdCamp is what is known as an UNconference. This means that no sessions are put on the schedule in advance. People propose sessions and time slots and rooms. If there are more suggestions that rooms are available people vote on which ones to hold. In this case there were eight rooms available and most time slots had eight sessions going on. It was held at Microsoft Cambridge at the aptly named NERD Center (New England Research and Development). I was very excited to be able to arrange for the space to be made available for this event. People are already taking about doing it again next year.
Left me start with a couple of quick reminders:
- Rock Paper Scissors takes to the cloud is ongoing. This is a chance to show off ones coding prowess and learn about cloud computing at the same time.
- For younger students ( Elementary Middle and High School) Kodu Cup deadline is tomorrow! BTW Kodu isn't just about computer science! Read about great work being done to promote literacy with young boys here.
Thanks to @21stprincipal on Twitter I found this useful article called 11 Free Microsoft Tools You're Overlooking in PCWorld. This is well worth checking out.
Speaking of conferences, the CSTA blog has a nice post about Choosing conference sessions for the CSTA CS & IT conference. Are you coming? Coming or not (though I hope to see many of you there) this is an interesting look as home sessions are selected for conference.
The latest video in a series of Campus Tours is The Microsoft Model Shop, which may be one of the coolest workshops south of the North Pole. Yes, Microsoft does do some things with hardware and of lot of the design starts in the model shop.
Ed Donahue (aka )@creepyed) blogged I <3 Infographics! with a nice graphic on history of web page design and tools.
Welcome to a new program from Microsoft called Microsoft Shape the Future and on Twitter at @shapethefuture
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