[Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond

Thu Dec 17 13:03:12 EST 2009

Mate..
PDP-11(and other PDP series hw), DEC VAX/VMS, DataGeneralVMS, Tandems, Old IBM super minis, these are what I started in 'Operations' with. Usually doing backups and running the eow, eom etc reports. doing the data reorgs and reindexes etc. Usually late at night in Melbourne Friday, Sat nights servicing the stockbroking and banking industry. We're talking 1985-89 here. I loved it and the pay at the time was great! Best part was when the fireworks were on, I had a box seat up high in a directors office of a client up the Rialto tower...ripper! M-F I was just a production planner for Boral national office right next to the punt rd on ramp for the (now) tollway. The building is now something to do with the rag trade I think judging by the artwork on the building. So yep, I did 7 days a week work back then...seems not much has changed eh?  The twist is, and I wont air it on these lists..I'd still be happily doing that if 'other events out of my control' had not occured. More a case of who ya know and not what ya know.
Oh, well, thats all old history now. The grand old days when I could happily go the back lanes of Melbourne(as I had to do for that job) and NOT get mugged!

Anyone else like to share some old story pre-teaching?  Now ya know part of my background(got some secrets I cant tell !)

Oh, BTW, the computers back then...if ya had color screens it usually meant either an orange or green font for the typing on a plain background. Otherwise it usually was black bg with white type.
And yes...pac man and space invaders was popular then too!!

right you lot who think I'm old...stop larfing!
cheers all.

Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545 http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/ email: kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au "This email and any attachments may be confidential. You must not disclose or use the information in this email if you are not the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and delete the email and all copies. The School does not guarantee that this email is virus or error free. The attached files are provided and my only be used on the basis that the user assumes all responsibility for any loss, damage or consequence resulting directly or indirectly from the use of the attached files, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not. The content and opinions in this email are not necessarily those of the School."

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From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Thu 12/17/2009 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond

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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	From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
	Sent: Tue 12/15/2009 6:00 PM

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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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	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/>  <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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