[Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
Sandison, Neil N
sandison.neil.n at edumail.vic.gov.au
Thu Dec 17 12:40:17 EST 2009
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.
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.
Neil Sandison
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Subject: Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
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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...
Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545
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Subject: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
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
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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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