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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My first work experience out of school was with Ferranti Space
and Defence in Edinburgh where I tried to assist the bloke who programmed the
moving map displays on a PDP8. I struggled to understand the programmer
who spoke in machine code and assumed everyone could understand it. It
was another ten years before I managed to write a functional machine code
program for x86 hardware.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>In my first real job we upgraded from Data General Nova 1200
http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum/machines/Nova12xx.html (or
something very similar) with address and data lights, paper tape and teletypes,
bootstrap program loaded with switches, to the DEC PDP11/03 with TI 733 terminals
(thermal printers and cassette tapes for program and data). The
great advantage of the PDP11/03 was that it didn’t use the unreliable
magnetic memory boards (4kb each) and didn’t have to have a bootstrap
program loaded manually. I missed the flashing lights though – took
a lot of the magic away, but as a tech I certainly didn’t miss the
Teletypes. We used the computers on drilling rigs to predict downhole pressure
from various measured parameters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Neil Sandison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
beyond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>hehehe thanks Kent :-)<br>
<br>
The melbourne museum has a PDP-11 .. I am working on an OLPC activitity
with the curator David for ACEC2010. I should collect some stories from you for
a digital stories archive I am working on :-) <br>
<br>
Anybody else used the PDP11 or have some fond stories of older computer? (Apple
][e .. Acorn??)<br>
<br>
Regards Roland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/12/16 Kent Beveridge <<a
href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Oi! Dont knock the PDP-11...I was one of the bunnies
who used one of them!! Fond memories of the tape to tape setup...oh
whoops..perhaps, I am like that bloke in the wheelchair too!!<br>
Its ok to get old ya know..<br>
Just NEVER allow yourself to stop trying new stuff within your own limits.<br>
When you do stop...THEN YOU ARE EITHER OFFICIALLY OLD OR...errr, lets not go
there.<br>
<br>
hehehehe...<br>
<br>
Kent. (enjoying the hols..we finished last Friday..YAY).<br>
think I will go watch the cricket now kiddies...Go Aussies...<br>
<br>
<br>
Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545 <a
href="http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/</a>
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Sent: Tue 12/15/2009 6:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information
Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing
List; Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux in
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<p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for
2010 and beyond<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
Thanks Rob .. catchy song. I wonder what we will be singing in the naughties.
The singers with the KISS makeup brought back memories. I would catch the
'train' to St Kilda to swim at the beach and race home on Sunday to catch Count
Down on the TV. My friend was lucky ... he had a BW TV in his fibro cement bungalo.<br>
<br>
I guess I was also lucky .. one of the first to do the VCE (although back then
they just changed the name .. under the covers it was still ye old HSC!) ..
watching Star Wars at the movies too many times .. rattling off trivia as I
stood in the queue such as "Did you know that John Dykstra used a PDP-11
computer to do the special effects". The only way a school could then get
a computer back then was to visit Radio Shack .. and soon afterwards, collect
safeway receipts to buy bits of an Apple ][e<br>
<br>
Yep .. Dr Bernard Holker really broke some ground with the keynote presentation
at ACEC2000, I still have the Real Media Player file that I recorded from the
streaming webcast. Must toss it up onto the creative commons :-)<br>
<br>
Regards Roland<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
2009/12/15 Costello, Rob R <<a
href="mailto:Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au">Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> what
an interesting post Roland<br>
<br>
reminds me of a song when another decade was
starting<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4</a><br>
<br>
appropriately named, The Monitors - no doubt a
subliminal msg about the rise of technology in there<br>
<br>
a deep and powerful song, that has lived with me
since<br>
<br>
i had no idea that a speaker at ACEC invented social
networking on the internet<br>
<br>
who would imagine that 'sharing messages with small
text boxes to connect people' would lead to Facebook and Twitter<br>
<br>
unfortunately i wasn't at the event so i didn't get
the DNA injection that makes me get up and dance when this is mentioned<br>
<br>
maybe if we recorded a remix 'what will be texting
in the teenies' it might not be too late?<br>
<br>
(when quoting that brilliant idea, please avoid
changing it to 'what will be texting to the teenies' since it will create legal
complications, unless we add the refrain, 'its for learning, e-learning' which
doesn't quite rhyme)<br>
<br>
five years after that classic song hit the airwaves,
i did HSC (yes HSC) in Vic ...<br>
<br>
i found myself reflecting last night on what maths
teachers have lost in the usage of technology since since then... i can't
helping thinking we did better, in some ways, in that discipline, when the
computer ratio was 1:20 (<a
href="http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5" target="_blank">http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5</a>
)<br>
<br>
i see now, of course, that i am like the guy in the
wheel chair in the clip, dreaming of a past that is better abandoned to kids in
Kiss costumes - they are the future!!!<br>
<br>
(excepting the fact that at the time i was 11 and i
thought it was ridiculous even then ... but no doubt i just suffered
historically displaced geek delusions that IT looked interesting; and stuck in
the 80s i couldn't know that it was twitter that i was really waiting for ...
passing notes around the room would go electronic and world wide!!)<br>
<br>
(now back to work : encoding maths questions and
interactive approaches into technology - roll in the wheelchair. i'm on the leave
from the dept, and while you overworked teachers enjoy a break, we burn
midnight oil (more subliminal messages from that band too - Peter Garret was
really commenting on the online anytime nature of future work)<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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From: <a
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on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen<br>
Sent: Mon 12/14/2009 6:51 PM<br>
To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information
Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing
List; Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux in
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Subject: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
beyond<br>
<br>
Apologies for the cross posted and duplicate
messages.<br>
<br>
Our decade is drawing to a close .. I had so dreamed
that by now we would<br>
fix the planetary climate control system and make
inroads to poverty . was<br>
it wrong for me to hold these dreams of a united
vision?<br>
<br>
I am a member of a conference team made up of
talented IT educators from<br>
primary, secondary and tertiary sectors .. some from
the country, some live<br>
in the city .. just like you all They all share the
vision of doing<br>
something 'wow' that brings together friends from
around Australia. As I get<br>
to know them and like other teams I have worked
with, I am increasingly<br>
impressed by their passion for making this event
work and now share their<br>
dream. I frown at anybody that is too quick to pour
scorn, quarantine and<br>
isolate their hard work or just belittles the
efforts they put in. Anybody<br>
who volunteers to work for a subject association
gets my thumbs up. Read my<br>
tag line below .. it is people that matter.<br>
<br>
At the Melbourne ACEC2000 conference,10 years ago,
Dr Bernard Holkner spoke<br>
as a keynote about an idea and story about sharing
messages with small text<br>
boxes to connect people. With groups pumping money
into multi-media<br>
upgrades. It was our burning questions discussions
around this topic poured<br>
the foundation for the social networking that has
since, revolutionised the<br>
Internet and our thinking about how it can be used
in our professional lifes<br>
and teaching / learning practice. I have been going
over the past notes I<br>
scribbled on papers presented by Tim Kitchener and
Paul Chandler that helped<br>
to focus my thinking about what I was doing. Things
I learned at NECC2008<br>
from the study tour that I attended with Jo, Jill
and Renee, I am still<br>
kicking around in my blog.<br>
<br>
What role will you play to help help us weave together
new stories beyond<br>
2009? What will you take from and where will you be
in 10 years time? What<br>
dreams will you share with the next generation of
educators?<o:p></o:p></p>
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many of you at <a href="http://www.acec2010.info" target="_blank">http://www.acec2010.info</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal> Melbourne next year and to
everybody, have a safe, Merry Christmas and a<br>
happy summer solstice.<br>
<br>
Regards Roland<br>
<br>
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