Assignment 1: People in the Field
Frances Bell In reviewing contributions of women in educational technology, I was thinking about Weller writing in his introduction to 25 Years of Ed Tech about the “historical amnesia of Ed Tech” (2020), something that is echoed by Watters in her blog post (2014). With this in mind, I was struck by Frances Bell, a […]
The “First Few Years” of EdTech? (1994-2001)
Initial Thoughts on Chapters 1-8 of 25 Years of Ed Tech It’s been really interesting reading Weller’s 25 Years of Ed Tech. While I shared many of the earlier experiences (BBS, IRC and AOL’s horrible experience (and their “coasters“), teaching myself HTML in ’95-’96, using Encarta and watching it’s replacement by Wikipedia) some of these […]