[Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
Roland Gesthuizen
rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 10:46:16 EST 2009
hehehe thanks Kent :-)
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 :-)
Anybody else used the PDP11 or have some fond stories of older computer?
(Apple ][e .. Acorn??)
Regards Roland
2009/12/16 Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>
> 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!!
> Its ok to get old ya know..
> Just NEVER allow yourself to stop trying new stuff within your own limits.
> When you do stop...THEN YOU ARE EITHER OFFICIALLY OLD OR...errr, lets not
> go there.
>
> hehehehe...
>
> Kent. (enjoying the hols..we finished last Friday..YAY).
> think I will go watch the cricket now kiddies...Go Aussies...
>
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>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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 :-)
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
>
> 2009/12/15 Costello, Rob R <Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>
>
> what an interesting post Roland
>
> reminds me of a song when another decade was starting
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4
>
> appropriately named, The Monitors - no doubt a subliminal msg about
> the rise of technology in there
>
> a deep and powerful song, that has lived with me since
>
> i had no idea that a speaker at ACEC invented social networking on
> the internet
>
> who would imagine that 'sharing messages with small text boxes to
> connect people' would lead to Facebook and Twitter
>
> 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
>
> maybe if we recorded a remix 'what will be texting in the teenies'
> it might not be too late?
>
> (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)
>
> five years after that classic song hit the airwaves, i did HSC (yes
> HSC) in Vic ...
>
> 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 (http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5 )
>
> 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!!!
>
> (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!!)
>
> (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)
>
> cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland
> Gesthuizen
> Sent: Mon 12/14/2009 6:51 PM
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> Subject: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>
> Apologies for the cross posted and duplicate messages.
>
> Our decade is drawing to a close .. I had so dreamed that by now we
> would
> fix the planetary climate control system and make inroads to poverty
> . was
> it wrong for me to hold these dreams of a united vision?
>
> I am a member of a conference team made up of talented IT educators
> from
> primary, secondary and tertiary sectors .. some from the country,
> some live
> in the city .. just like you all They all share the vision of doing
> something 'wow' that brings together friends from around Australia.
> As I get
> to know them and like other teams I have worked with, I am
> increasingly
> impressed by their passion for making this event work and now share
> their
> dream. I frown at anybody that is too quick to pour scorn,
> quarantine and
> isolate their hard work or just belittles the efforts they put in.
> Anybody
> who volunteers to work for a subject association gets my thumbs up.
> Read my
> tag line below .. it is people that matter.
>
> At the Melbourne ACEC2000 conference,10 years ago, Dr Bernard
> Holkner spoke
> as a keynote about an idea and story about sharing messages with
> small text
> boxes to connect people. With groups pumping money into multi-media
> upgrades. It was our burning questions discussions around this topic
> poured
> the foundation for the social networking that has since,
> revolutionised the
> Internet and our thinking about how it can be used in our
> professional lifes
> and teaching / learning practice. I have been going over the past
> notes I
> scribbled on papers presented by Tim Kitchener and Paul Chandler
> that helped
> to focus my thinking about what I was doing. Things I learned at
> NECC2008
> from the study tour that I attended with Jo, Jill and Renee, I am
> still
> kicking around in my blog.
>
> What role will you play to help help us weave together new stories
> beyond
> 2009? What will you take from and where will you be in 10 years
> time? What
> dreams will you share with the next generation of educators?
>
> I look forward to meeting up with many of you at
> http://www.acec2010.info <http://www.acec2010.info/> in
> Melbourne next year and to everybody, have a safe, Merry Christmas
> and a
> happy summer solstice.
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
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