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Eric's Educational Technology Timeline

By ericrobertson12
  • Xerox Copier

    Xerox Copier

    Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in 1959, and it gradually replaced copies made by Verifax, Photostat, carbon paper, mimeograph machines, and other duplicating machines.

  • The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is established

  • Computer Mouse prototype created

  • Slippery Rock University gets computer and reaches out to local high schools

  • Basic four-function calculator goes commerical

    Basic four-function calculator goes commerical

  • Apple introduces Apple II

  • Plato Computer is commericalized

    Plato Computer is commericalized

  • Scantron machine is created

    Scantron machine is created

  • Texas Instruments creates hand-held graphing calculator

    Texas Instruments creates hand-held graphing calculator

  • CD-ROM drive introduced

    CD-ROM drive introduced

  • First digital celluar phone commercialized

  • Computers introduced to my school district

  • First computer lab at my school

  • World Wide Web begins

  • Smart Boards are introduced.

    Smart Boards are introduced.

  • Second computer lab at my school

  • No Child Left Behind

  • Clicker introduced

    Clicker introduced

  • Discovery Education streams educational video

  • Wireless internet access for my district's senior high school

  • Laptop carts for each department at my district's high school

  • Reinvestment and Recovery Act

  • iPod carts for each department at senior high

  • Wireless internet for part of my school's building

  • Apple unveils the iPad!

    Apple unveils the iPad!

  • My school recieves two iPod carts

  • GoogleDoc Accounts are created for all student at my school

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