Personal and Educational Technology Integration 1975-2011

Birth of the Internet (commissioned by DoD

Sep 1, 1969

Why is this relevant? First node at UCLA (Los Angeles) closely followed by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbara) and U of Utah (4 Nodes).
Source: http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

Global Networking Becomes a Reality

Sep 1, 1973

First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway)
Ethernet outlined -- this how local networks are basically connected today.
Internet ideas started.
Gateway architecture sketched on back of envelope in hotel lobby in San Francisco. Gateways define how large networks (maybe of different architecture) can be connected together.
File Transfer protocol specified --
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-tim

Start of my educational journey

Sep 13, 1975

Computer Networking Expands

Sep 1, 1976

Queen Elizabeth sends out an e-mail.
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with UNIX.
Why is this relevant? UNIX was and still is the main operating system used by universities and research establishments.
These machines could now ``talk'' over a network.
Networking exposed to many users worldwide.
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

Commodore PET Computers introduce at Elgin Court

Jun 13, 1982

First computers I had ever seen in Elementary School

Homedale Senior Elementary School (Gr. 7)

May 13, 1983

Used a Commodor Vic 20 computer to build a simple robot

Begin Secondary School at Central Elgin

Sep 1, 1985

Entered Gr. 9 at Central Elgin Collegiate Institue in St. Thomas, Ontario.

My first Synthesizer (Roland Juno 1)

Jun 9, 1986

This was my first synthesizer keyboard. It had midi capabilties, but I didn't have an interface to plug it into the Commodore 64 yet.

Family Computer upgrade to a Commodore 64

Dec 25, 1986

Began to use this computer for assingments, games, and music creation.

First Family Cell phone (Motarola)

Jun 1, 1989

Graduate OAC from CECI

Jun 28, 1990

Started at the University of Windsor (BMA)

Sep 5, 1990

Begin my post secondary education at the University of Windsor. Piano Major / Geography Minor.

Mass availability of Internet for home

Sep 1, 1993

6.5 Million Hosts, 100,000 WWW Sites.
NSFNET reverts back to a research network. Main US backbone traffic now routed through interconnected network providers
WWW surpasses ftp-data in March as the service with greatest traffic on NSFNet based on packet count, and in April based on byte count
Traditional online dial-up systems (Compuserve, America Online, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access
A number of Net related companies go public, with Netscape leading the pack.
Registration of dom

First email I ever sent

Oct 13, 1994

St. Bonaventure Univeristy (Teacher's College)

Dec 13, 1996

Utilized databases, email, and personal computers at this time.

Taught in London England ( Yr. 6- St.Dominics)

May 12, 1997

Used school computers, laptops, to prepare lessons, and reportcards. No real email to contact parents. It seems like everybody in the UK has a cell phone at this time.

Purchased P4 512 RAM

Jul 1, 1999

This was a work horse computer to record music and commercials for R & J Productions.

Married in Mexico

Jan 7, 2000

Married to my wife Janet in Cancun Mexico. Big scare at the time was the Y2k reset.

Purchased a Roland U-8 Digital Recorder

Jul 10, 2001

This machine allowed me to do multi-track recording using Windows 98 on a P3 computer.

First Child Emma is born

Jan 1, 2002

Our daughter Emma was the New Years baby in our hometown.

Second daugher Dana is born

Nov 10, 2003

Second daughter Dana is born. Now a two child family.

SmartBoard in my Classroom

Feb 15, 2007

Regular access to a Smartboard and dataprojector.
Implications change the way planning takes places it also introduces me to using web-based resources.

Palm Pilot Device in use

Jul 12, 2007

Started making the switch from date book to Digital organizer. Was great for wifi pictures, video, various apps, and music.

Acquired an Apple MacBook Laptop

Feb 12, 2008

First move over to Apple products. 15" White laptop. Starting using iMovie, and Garageband for music apps.

Web 2.0 becomes part of my world

Sep 12, 2008

This is another major shift in thinking. Things can be done over the web. Applicaitons like Google gmail, and other programs applications like Delicious are used in my daily activities as a Coordinator.

Won an iPod Touch device at an RCAC conference

Dec 13, 2008

Began Masters of Education at University of Western Ontario

Sep 12, 2009

Working as a technology coordinator have access to Dell Laptop, Motorala Razor phone, Clickers, Document cameras, Digital Cameras, Smartboards, Web 2.0 starts to be very mainstream

purchased iPad for my wife

Nov 14, 2010

Started entering into the tablet area of personal computing.