Richard Schwier

Way to go, Champ! I see you and George have been busy! I went into the page to add a couple of things, and I found that you beat me to it. Thanks! :-)


I do hope everyone will get comfortable adding material to this. By the way, I conducted a wonderful interview this weekend with Katy Campbell this weekend. Notice how I said "conducted" and not "recorded"? That's right. I found my settings in Wiretap Studio were fine for Skype, but not for iChat (which we used). Thank goodness Katy is a good sport. I'm going to re-do the interview, and maybe get her on video this time.:-)

Thanks so very much, Richard! Your work looks fabulous, and we're envious of how far along you are with it! We have been hoping all along that this project could include contributions from around the world, so linking to your site would be wonderful.

Also, your name for it -- calling it an archive -- may give us just the solution we've been searching for. We've struggled with what to call this "thing" for awhile, and none of us was particularly happy with "museum" or "repository" for all of the obvious reasons. But archive is simple, direct and unassuming.

I'm also impressed with your categorization of items into stories, organisatins, artefacts, people, collections, links and events.

Was this a labour of love for you?

One of the things we discussed (was it with my students or here?) was the need to do some historical timelines of significant events in educational technology. I recently ran across a few I think you might find interesting:

The History of Virtual Learning Environments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

History, the History of Computers, and the History of Computers in Education: http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html

Educational Technology Timeline: http://cgi.duke.edu/~frankbo/edtech02/main.pl?userChoice=history

Do you know of any others?

I also checked out the Wikipedia entry for history of educational technology. It has some significant holes, even from its strictly North American perspective, but it has some good information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology

Also, here is a slideshow that I tripped across. Has some great quotes:
http://www.slideshare.net/randommind/a-brief-history-of-educational-technology/

Do you know of other resources we can add?

And just for comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1EslmriCE&NR=1

Oh my, that's great, Dierdre. Thanks! And the narrator is "the voice" -- I've heard that voice on hundreds of educational films. You know, the quality is pretty high on the whole -- first rate acting by the teacher too. Some of the situations seem goofy now, but you know, the principles hold up pretty well, don't they.