All stories
All the stories, irrespective of theme
- Chris is Cool
- The best musicians are the ones who started practising young, and never stopped. It's the same for computer programmers.
- PODD
- A popular primary school program to explore vocabulary
- Naked Without My Mobile
- Peoples' awareness of the comfort and security from computing and mobile devices is not just common knowledge, but a social requisite when connecting and communicating.
- F-R-E-D
- I was in Junior School and our school got its first BBC computer...
- Computer appreciation
- Early experience of computers in teacher training
- Electronic calculators and imperial units
- An early encounter with electronic calculators in quantity surveying
- In praise of NCET, CET and Becta
- The value of the government agencies for the development of educational technology
- Computing to Art and then ICT
- A professional life story, starting with computing in a commercial context and them moving into education through Art teaching to ICT
- First experience with a computer system
- Programming with punch cards in school in 1970
- Word-processing affects handwriting
- Early use of a word-processor led to unexpected effects away from the computer
- Embedding Video Conferencing in a Multi-site University Setting
- An experience of the development and deployment of video conferencing while leading a university media production department:
- First program
- My first programming experience, probably shares similar characteristics to many other people who started using computers
- Your demonstrations have got to work
- A story of early use of computing, punched cards and failure to deliver, but also of business simulations and 'fellow experimenters' learning together with the teacher
- Surfing the crest of the wave
- The experience of one professional from teaching to research and policy making over thirty years
- Susan Markle's 'Good Frames and Bad'
- A systematic approach for designing learning material from the 1960s, but with relevance today
- Making web pages to exhibit science work
- In the early days of the internet, one class publishes work on renewable energy in web pages, leading to some rewarding outcomes
- Inspired by creating a laser disc
- The influence of early pioneer Alisdair Wells on one teacher, through the creation of a laser disc with video material from the Battle of the Somme
- HELP - Henley Extended Learning Platform
- Early use of dial-up connectivity to support distance learning students at Henly Management College
- Using a calculator in an arithmetic exam
- Using a Brunsviga mechanical calculator for O-Grade Arithmetic examination
- Nothing changes, everything changes
- New teachers were using computers in their own schooling, unlike many pioneers
