As a new teacher, what were some new and innovating resources that you had access to? 
Slide Rule: developed in the 1600s for multiplication, 
division, roots, algorithms, and trigonometry. 
Used until 1974 when the calculator was invented.
Chalkboard: introduced into the US education system in 1801.
SMART Board: interactive whiteboard. Introduced in 1991 by SMART Technologies.
Overhead Projector: first used for training 
purposes in WWII, and quickly spread to
      use in schools in the 1950's and 60's.

As you began your first year of teaching, what was the most important technological advancement that you were excited to use in your classroom? 
Do you have any favorite web-based resources? 
A Narrative History
of Technology and
Education
The ballpoint pen as we know it today was patented in 1938 by Laszlo Biro.
"... how excited she was to teach more students while standing at the head of the class instead of walking around to each pupil and instructing them individually on their own slates. Beulah Mae was so grateful for that giant slate board on the wall..."
The first radio program aired on August 31, 1920.
The first commercially successful typewriter was patented in 1867.
"...In 1923 Bessie wrote that the school board had “strongly recommended” she use radio and film in her teaching...announcing to all the teachers that it would single-handedly combat the otherwise “boring and lifeless” instruction in the classroom..."
"We had filmstrip projectors, with a tape player for audio."
 - Mrs. Littlemore 

"We were excited when the 
little tape cassettes came in!" 
- Mrs. McCauley
"We had ditto machines... " - Mr. Penner
"...Mimeograph machines..."  - Mrs. Millier "...Spirit duplicators..." - Mrs. Littlemore
It was Thomas Edison who invented the first motion picture in 1910. 

The color television system came in 1940.
"We were still fighting with an old gestetner. We had to crank the machine for every copy and usually got covered in ink!" 
-  Mrs. McCauley  
The first handheld calculator was invented in 1967.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder (VTR) in 1951.
"I keep 5 cameras in my class to catch glimpses of students 
attaining learning outcomes. Many parents don't get to hear
their child speak French, doing tons of recording makes that 
possible."  - Mrs. Gingell Munteanu
Mobile phones were first invented in 1947 
although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983.  
1968 - The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart.
In1975 the laser printer was invented followed by the invention of the inkjet printer in 1976.

"Back in Gravelbourg, the majority of the teachers were still using the stinky spirit duplicator. Teachers continued to use the duplicator after I got there, I never did use it though."
- Mrs. Gingell Munteanu
The first digital computer ENIAC, was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons.
The photocopier was invented in1937 by Chester F. Carlson
" No more purple papers from a mimeograph machine!" - Mrs. Millier
David Gestetner was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, 
the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of 
numerous copies of office documents quickly and inexpensively.
The first technology to project an image using light was the opaque projector, the direct ancestor of the overhead projector. In the late 1800s, these devices were used in lecture halls at major universities and also for amusement.
"The opaque projector was like a document projector that 
shone onto the wall - caught fire if you left it on for too long."
 - Mrs.  Littlemore
1962 -the audio cassette is invented.
We learned to make overheads: We put the Mac Tac on paper and soaked it in water. The ink would stay." - Mr. Krause 
"The projectors weren’t attached to ceilings at that time and there was only one, so teachers had to book it and share."
- Mr. Simonsen

In 1985 the Windows program was invented by Microsoft. 
" I started teaching in 1980. We had Apple 2e computers back then and progressed to Apple Macintosh." - Mr. Penner 
The Apple Macintosh was invented in 1984.
"The technology I
use the most and 
could likely not life
without is the 
Photocopier!!" 
- Mrs. Gingnell Munteanu
"The Elementary School started taking apart their archaic Commodore lab and set up a computer lab with the high school hand-me downs." -  Mrs. Gingell Munteanu
"The grand switch from DOS to WINDOWS!!  The more user friendly computer!!  And its newer programs..." 
 - Mme. Gauthier 
"Twenty years ago...
I was doing good 
to write my tests 
on a computer 
and print them."
- Mrs. Tappan
FAX machines: "...were a great invention too." - Mrs. McCauley
"I began teaching in 1996 and the internet was all the rage...at that time, five search engines would pop up and you had to select one to use.  Now, Google is king." - Mr. Simonsen
"Graphing calculators were a good time." - Ms. Rempel
"I was lucky enough to start teaching at the same time as the elementary school received its first Smart board – this was very exciting!"  Mrs. Lagasee
"We also had film strip and 16mm projectors and I believe VHS and Beta also came on the scene." 
- Mr. Penner 
"We learned how to use the Ecktographic Visual Maker:You could take pictures from magazines with a 110 camera on a stand to make slides to show in a slide projector." - Mr. Krause
"We moved into VHS tapes in 1991, and DVD about 10 years later."        -Mr. Krause
" As an elementary music teacher, I used the computer for communication, and to obtain info and music examples and performances. I was using (with help) MP3 players to record music for kids to use at home." - Mrs. McCauley
"I was most excited about being able to create assignments and save them for future use. I was so excited to be able to easily change and create activities so that they would include each student's name and  entertaining clipart and fancy fonts." - Mrs. Gingell Munteanu 
"....it was dirty, nasty, complicated." - Mrs. Littlemore
The Internet was invented in 1957 when the first Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union and
up until 1992, was located primarily at educational institutions and government facilities. 
The online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named Time Magazine's Invention of the Year in 2006.
Students and parents are able to access class information and grades through the internet... probably the main way I use it, the internet is my first form of communication with other teachers, frequently with parents, and even with students after school hours."
- Mrs.  Millier
The most innovating resource was the Moodle program I used with my eighth grade ethics unit. It has many possibilities such as on line tests, on line homework, etc. but we used the online dialogue or chat room. 
- Mrs. Tappan
 "Today, I use a couple dozen YouTube documentaries every year, I have them bookmarked."  - Mr. Simonsen
"Now I have a wikispace, just signed up for a blog and am trying to go 
digital with my Student-Led-Parent-Teacher Conferences." 
- Mrs. Gingell Munteanu
" ... I like the wide variety of YouTube videos that show the things that I am teaching." - Mrs. Lagasse
"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."
"Do not confine children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." 
Is Facebook a resource...? Ha ha. -Mrs. Tappan
Our intercom system is Voice Over Internet Protocol. In addition to all-call announcements, every teacher has a number. We can call each other, or if someone phones the school they can just get directed to my voicemail. Then I can listen to my messages in my email. -Ms. Schalk
I use Microsoft Word a lot, then I use blogging (Wordpress, Edublogs, and Blogger), Powerpoint, Goanimate (online animation program) and Youtube with the students. -Ms. Gerlach