[Moodle] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
Sandison, Neil N
sandison.neil.n at edumail.vic.gov.au
Thu Dec 17 16:06:10 EST 2009
Actually it was 19 years between working with PDP8 (1973)and writing
machine code for x86 (1992)! How time flies.
Neil S
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[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Dr Paul Chandler
Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 3:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [Moodle] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
Way back in 1988, when you were 'king of the heap' if you had a 14.4kbps
modem and 'emporer' if you also had a laser printer, a certain school
(Monash High in Clayton) needed its course booklet printed. A certain
John Widmer of Templestowe Tech offered us the use of his laser printer.
He suggested that we dial in and use the 'Tempest' BBS to send the file
to
him for printing.
Then I did some calculations - it was going to take longer to upload the
files than it would take to drive from Clayton to Templestowe. So, when
all the world was 5.25" disks, I set off with a 3.5", drove to
Templestowe
and printed the booklet!
> 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
>
>
>
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
> Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:46 AM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> 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...
>
>
> Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545
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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
>
>
>
>
>
> -----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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> in Education; 2008 ACCE study tour NECC
> 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
>
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
>
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>
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