Comments on: A Year of "Firsts" http://janetclarey.com/2007/11/29/a-year-of-firsts/ Spinning the Social Web Thu, 17 May 2012 05:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Werner http://janetclarey.com/2007/11/29/a-year-of-firsts/comment-page-1/#comment-2550 Tom Werner Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:05:31 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=435#comment-2550 Hi Janet, the first use of instructional technology that I remember was having a television in our third-grade class (about 1960). We had French lessons on TV, which weren't too great. The teacher would say, "Écoutez" (listen), then say something in French, then say, "Répétez" (repeat), and we would mumble it back. Of course we knew she couldn't hear us. However, we also got to watch Alan Sheppard's space flight and that was good learning. The first big "transforming" use of instructional technology that I remember was the copy machine, which arrived in the educational world when I was in college. Suddenly, there was this new thing called "hand-outs," which wasn't the textbook and wasn't a lecture, but was a third thing: the professor being an author and a course tinkerer. What followed after that was a zillion variations of courses as professors came up with syllabi, hand-outs, point systems, objectives, study questions, quizzes, activity instructions, extra-credit modules, etc., etc. And I think all this started because professors could readily "publish" stuff on copy machines. Hi Janet, the first use of instructional technology that I remember was having a television in our third-grade class (about 1960). We had French lessons on TV, which weren’t too great. The teacher would say, “Écoutez” (listen), then say something in French, then say, “Répétez” (repeat), and we would mumble it back. Of course we knew she couldn’t hear us.

However, we also got to watch Alan Sheppard’s space flight and that was good learning.

The first big “transforming” use of instructional technology that I remember was the copy machine, which arrived in the educational world when I was in college. Suddenly, there was this new thing called “hand-outs,” which wasn’t the textbook and wasn’t a lecture, but was a third thing: the professor being an author and a course tinkerer. What followed after that was a zillion variations of courses as professors came up with syllabi, hand-outs, point systems, objectives, study questions, quizzes, activity instructions, extra-credit modules, etc., etc. And I think all this started because professors could readily “publish” stuff on copy machines.

]]> By: Tom Werner http://janetclarey.com/2007/11/29/a-year-of-firsts/comment-page-1/#comment-4877 Tom Werner Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:05:00 +0000 http://janetclarey.com/?p=435#comment-4877 Hi Janet, the first use of instructional technology that I remember was having a television in our third-grade class (about 1960). We had French lessons on TV, which weren't too great. The teacher would say, "Écoutez" (listen), then say something in French, then say, "Répétez" (repeat), and we would mumble it back. Of course we knew she couldn't hear us. However, we also got to watch Alan Sheppard's space flight and that was good learning. The first big "transforming" use of instructional technology that I remember was the copy machine, which arrived in the educational world when I was in college. Suddenly, there was this new thing called "hand-outs," which wasn't the textbook and wasn't a lecture, but was a third thing: the professor being an author and a course tinkerer. What followed after that was a zillion variations of courses as professors came up with syllabi, hand-outs, point systems, objectives, study questions, quizzes, activity instructions, extra-credit modules, etc., etc. And I think all this started because professors could readily "publish" stuff on copy machines. Hi Janet, the first use of instructional technology that I remember was having a television in our third-grade class (about 1960). We had French lessons on TV, which weren’t too great. The teacher would say, “Écoutez” (listen), then say something in French, then say, “Répétez” (repeat), and we would mumble it back. Of course we knew she couldn’t hear us.

However, we also got to watch Alan Sheppard’s space flight and that was good learning.

The first big “transforming” use of instructional technology that I remember was the copy machine, which arrived in the educational world when I was in college. Suddenly, there was this new thing called “hand-outs,” which wasn’t the textbook and wasn’t a lecture, but was a third thing: the professor being an author and a course tinkerer. What followed after that was a zillion variations of courses as professors came up with syllabi, hand-outs, point systems, objectives, study questions, quizzes, activity instructions, extra-credit modules, etc., etc. And I think all this started because professors could readily “publish” stuff on copy machines.

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