Interesting Links 8 March 2010

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Well last week was another interesting week for me. I finished it off with a short trip to Houston TX for the annual HP Code Wars high school programming competition. The people at HP did an amazing job hosting some 600 student competitors on a Saturday morning.  You have to hand it to the teachers and other chaperones who got the students there. Some of them drove van loads of kids to Houston from all over Texas the day before. It was a great time though and I am glad I had the chance to be there and too talk to so many great teachers. During the course of the week I collected and twittered a good number of interesting links as well. Here now is my pick of the litter.

A little self advertising, at TCEA Key Royal (@KenRoyal) and I recorded a discussion we had about technology in education. You can watch it at Scholastic Administrator.

Several people twittered of emailed me a link to this Windows 7 phone demo that shows cross platform game development using XNA. Some really impressive stuff getting more so all the time. Maybe this is your first look at games on the Windows Phone System 7?

Speaking of XNA and games, Rob Miles (@robmiles) blogged about an XNA demo he did recently at St Bede’s College. He’s got a bunch of sample code and everything! Related to that the US Imagine Cup twitter account (@imaginecupus) sent out a link to some great tutorials for getting started with XNA game development - https://www.xnadevelopment.com/tutorials.shtml

The Princeton Review posted their list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs in the US It’s an interesting list has is potentially useful. But not including The Guildhall at SMU and Rochester Institute of Technology means that it is a seriously flawed list in my book.

Erik Meijer in one of my favorite technical people at Microsoft. If you ever get a chance to hear him talk you should really take advantage of it. He is the subject of a new the Code interview on Channel 9 titled  Rebel with a Cause - Democratizing the Machine.

Last week was National Grammar Day @Microsoft_EDU sent out a link to some tips for customizing your grammar and spelling settings in Microsoft Office Plus there were some links from Rob Bayuk (@TeachTec), the U.S. K-20 Educator Marketing Manager at Microsoft this week as well.

That’s it for today. Follow me @AlfredTwo on Twitter if you’d like links from this live during the week. Thanks!