Mr. Higgins’ Blog

Anyone who has ever taught anywhere, after going to college for that purpose, knows the message I am passing along in this blog.  In a way, this blog is self-medicating.  I have hopes that others will get the message.  I have two areas of certification, mathematics and computer science.  I had a great deal of [...]

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I really do have a great perspective on the AP Computer Science Exam and what it means as a student AND a teacher.  There still are not a lot of us who have taken BOTH the AP Examination and taught the class.  As an inexperienced teacher, I do not have much of a basis to [...]

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Since starting the Marine Biology Case Study, which goes along with both the AP Computer Science A and AB curriculum, I have changed my opinion about this simulation.  I still do not like the idea of the case study; however, when you have great students like I am blessed with this year, it is absolutely [...]

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…since I actually blogged about anything.  As seen in my last blog, I have been very busy with my five preps as a first year teacher.  Thank you to those who chatted or commented back on my post.  It really helped me gain perspective about what CAN be done. . AP Computer Science Marine Biology [...]

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My First Semester Exam Experience Thus far I have made it through half of the school year and have finally finished grading the semester tests.  My tests were given in a variety of formats.  My web development class gave presentations on websites they created in FrontPage 2003.  AP Computer completed a written test and a [...]

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…and reading other bloggers blogs. Being Christmas Break now, I did some physical and mental house cleaning and took sometime to sort through my RSS feeds to see which ones I truly read and which ones I just sort of glance over from time to time.  Here are the main blogs I read and what [...]

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Web 2.0 and the inspiration on my daily life is tremendous, especially when I feel the urge to create something that would allow teachers from all over to really benefit from sharing ideas.  So, the idea of the AP Computer Science A / AB Wiki was born.  Here are my ideas for this wiki… Teachers from [...]

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After eight weeks working through the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 BASICS bookwith my students and nearly half way through our semester of Visual Basic, I felt a review of the book so far was warrented. We have covered the following… 1: A First Look at Microsoft Visual Basic2: Forms, Controls, and Properties3: Events and Code4: [...]

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