Comments on: Mrs Perkins’s journey into the WWW http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567 Technology and Education Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-1829 Paul Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:07:23 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-1829 Nice article. What I really like is your use of Apture. Others take note. In-line source is just much more convenient for the reader. Regards, Paul Nice article. What I really like is your use of Apture. Others take note. In-line source is just much more convenient for the reader.
Regards,
Paul

]]> By: Paul http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-3002 Paul Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:07:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-3002 Nice article. What I really like is your use of Apture. Others take note. In-line source is just much more convenient for the reader. Regards, Paul Nice article. What I really like is your use of Apture. Others take note. In-line source is just much more convenient for the reader.
Regards,
Paul

]]> By: Graham Davies http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-1818 Graham Davies Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:02:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-1818 Wow! That takes me back too - although I started a bit earlier: I began teaching with a an audiocassette language lab in 1968 and I used banda duplicators. I began using a computer in 1976, a Prime minicomputer that was about the size of a Coca Cola vending machine. The boom came in 1981, when the BBC Micro was launched. See this evening's BBC 4 broadcast of Micro Men, which documents the conflict between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. See also my posting in the MFL Resources forum in response to the topic started by Alan Crease: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/message/41627 I remember Barry Jones's Granville simulation very well. I still have a copy that runs on my vintage BBC Micro. Whatever happened to MFL simulations? Simulation programs seem to have gone out of fashion. I loved them, especially programs on videodisc that used real video clips, e.g. Expodisc and Montevidisco. The Web, which went public in 1993, has probably been the biggest technological breakthrough in my lifetime, although I still remember the thrill of getting my first reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1950s, which I used to learn Russian from a series of BBC radio off-air recordings. Listening to my own voice struggling to get to grips with the sounds of Russian was a revelation to me! It took computers another 30 years to catch up with this technology, i.e. listen / respond / playback, which was made possible with the advent of sound cards in the late 1980s. Technological change is now breathtaking. Inspired by a blog in The Business Insider, titled "21 things that became obsolete this decade", I have drawn up my personal list of things that I no longer use. See my blog: http://ictforlanguageteachers.blogspot.com Graham Davies Wow! That takes me back too – although I started a bit earlier: I began teaching with a an audiocassette language lab in 1968 and I used banda duplicators. I began using a computer in 1976, a Prime minicomputer that was about the size of a Coca Cola vending machine. The boom came in 1981, when the BBC Micro was launched. See this evening’s BBC 4 broadcast of Micro Men, which documents the conflict between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. See also my posting in the MFL Resources forum in response to the topic started by Alan Crease:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/message/41627

I remember Barry Jones’s Granville simulation very well. I still have a copy that runs on my vintage BBC Micro. Whatever happened to MFL simulations? Simulation programs seem to have gone out of fashion. I loved them, especially programs on videodisc that used real video clips, e.g. Expodisc and Montevidisco.

The Web, which went public in 1993, has probably been the biggest technological breakthrough in my lifetime, although I still remember the thrill of getting my first reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1950s, which I used to learn Russian from a series of BBC radio off-air recordings. Listening to my own voice struggling to get to grips with the sounds of Russian was a revelation to me! It took computers another 30 years to catch up with this technology, i.e. listen / respond / playback, which was made possible with the advent of sound cards in the late 1980s.

Technological change is now breathtaking. Inspired by a blog in The Business Insider, titled “21 things that became obsolete this decade”, I have drawn up my personal list of things that I no longer use. See my blog:

http://ictforlanguageteachers.blogspot.com

Graham Davies

]]> By: Graham Davies http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-3001 Graham Davies Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:02:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-3001 Wow! That takes me back too - although I started a bit earlier: I began teaching with a an audiocassette language lab in 1968 and I used banda duplicators. I began using a computer in 1976, a Prime minicomputer that was about the size of a Coca Cola vending machine. The boom came in 1981, when the BBC Micro was launched. See this evening's BBC 4 broadcast of Micro Men, which documents the conflict between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. See also my posting in the MFL Resources forum in response to the topic started by Alan Crease: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/message/41627 I remember Barry Jones's Granville simulation very well. I still have a copy that runs on my vintage BBC Micro. Whatever happened to MFL simulations? Simulation programs seem to have gone out of fashion. I loved them, especially programs on videodisc that used real video clips, e.g. Expodisc and Montevidisco. The Web, which went public in 1993, has probably been the biggest technological breakthrough in my lifetime, although I still remember the thrill of getting my first reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1950s, which I used to learn Russian from a series of BBC radio off-air recordings. Listening to my own voice struggling to get to grips with the sounds of Russian was a revelation to me! It took computers another 30 years to catch up with this technology, i.e. listen / respond / playback, which was made possible with the advent of sound cards in the late 1980s. Technological change is now breathtaking. Inspired by a blog in The Business Insider, titled "21 things that became obsolete this decade", I have drawn up my personal list of things that I no longer use. See my blog: http://ictforlanguageteachers.blogspot.com Graham Davies Wow! That takes me back too – although I started a bit earlier: I began teaching with a an audiocassette language lab in 1968 and I used banda duplicators. I began using a computer in 1976, a Prime minicomputer that was about the size of a Coca Cola vending machine. The boom came in 1981, when the BBC Micro was launched. See this evening’s BBC 4 broadcast of Micro Men, which documents the conflict between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. See also my posting in the MFL Resources forum in response to the topic started by Alan Crease:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/message/41627

I remember Barry Jones’s Granville simulation very well. I still have a copy that runs on my vintage BBC Micro. Whatever happened to MFL simulations? Simulation programs seem to have gone out of fashion. I loved them, especially programs on videodisc that used real video clips, e.g. Expodisc and Montevidisco.

The Web, which went public in 1993, has probably been the biggest technological breakthrough in my lifetime, although I still remember the thrill of getting my first reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1950s, which I used to learn Russian from a series of BBC radio off-air recordings. Listening to my own voice struggling to get to grips with the sounds of Russian was a revelation to me! It took computers another 30 years to catch up with this technology, i.e. listen / respond / playback, which was made possible with the advent of sound cards in the late 1980s.

Technological change is now breathtaking. Inspired by a blog in The Business Insider, titled “21 things that became obsolete this decade”, I have drawn up my personal list of things that I no longer use. See my blog:

http://ictforlanguageteachers.blogspot.com

Graham Davies

]]> By: Simon Howells http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-1817 Simon Howells Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:12:18 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-1817 Great post, Marie-France... amazing what is out there now isn't it. My year 8s were using the Versailles website last term (http://www.chateauversailles.fr/homepage) which I think you have mentioned before... it's so easy to bring things alive now - suddenly they could see the scale and majesty of the place in a way that Tricolore just can't achieve! Great post, Marie-France… amazing what is out there now isn’t it. My year 8s were using the Versailles website last term (http://www.chateauversailles.fr/homepage) which I think you have mentioned before… it’s so easy to bring things alive now – suddenly they could see the scale and majesty of the place in a way that Tricolore just can’t achieve!

]]> By: Simon Howells http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-3000 Simon Howells Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:12:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-3000 Great post, Marie-France... amazing what is out there now isn't it. My year 8s were using the Versailles website last term (http://www.chateauversailles.fr/homepage) which I think you have mentioned before... it's so easy to bring things alive now - suddenly they could see the scale and majesty of the place in a way that Tricolore just can't achieve! Great post, Marie-France… amazing what is out there now isn’t it. My year 8s were using the Versailles website last term (http://www.chateauversailles.fr/homepage) which I think you have mentioned before… it’s so easy to bring things alive now – suddenly they could see the scale and majesty of the place in a way that Tricolore just can’t achieve!

]]> By: Mary http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-1816 Mary Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-1816 You take me back, Marie-France :) I also started teaching in the mid-eighties too with reel to reel, film strips and OHP - but what about the banda machine?! You take me back, Marie-France :) I also started teaching in the mid-eighties too with reel to reel, film strips and OHP – but what about the banda machine?!

]]> By: Mary http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567&cpage=1#comment-2999 Mary Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1567#comment-2999 You take me back, Marie-France :) I also started teaching in the mid-eighties too with reel to reel, film strips and OHP - but what about the banda machine?! You take me back, Marie-France :) I also started teaching in the mid-eighties too with reel to reel, film strips and OHP – but what about the banda machine?!

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