A personal timeline of educational technology

OverviewMy name is Sirichoke Namsong,

and people call me “Sam”.I started school in 1983 in Sakon

Nakhon, Thailand.I graduated from high school in

1989 in Sakon Nakhon.I first went to college at Krasetsart

University, Bangkok in 1989, but for the next year I moved to Rachabhat Sakon Nakhon University

When I finish my master’s degree, I aspire to be a lecturer at the Rachabhat Sakon Nakhon University.

All kinds of innovations and ideas that are used for educational purposes. Educational Technology can be processes, strategies, infrastructures, and materials that help us learn better, faster, easier, and more effectively and need not necessarily be a cutting edge tool or a bag full of magic tricks.

Web sites on educational technology history http://www.aect.org/About/History.asp http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2002/6/issroff-sca

nlon-02-6-03.html http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17469 http://www.bsu.edu/classes/nasseh/study/

history.html If you have sometime check this link out for

fun

http://www.slideshare.net/randommind/a-brief-history-of-educational-technology/

Kindergarten technology

At that time, I experienced only chalk, blackboard, puppetry and stuffed toys.

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High school technology

I first learned English as a foreign language by listening and watching cassette tapes and videos from BBC because there was no native English teachers at my school then. We subsequently had new excitements from computers and emerging of CD-ROM.

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College technology

Computers were wildly used in the college, it started with MS-DOS, Window 3.2, Win 95, and Win 98. Moreover, there were scanners, color printers, internet access, digital cameras, and CD writers available in two big computer labs in the college.

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A vivid technology learning experience During my brief part-time

job in college, I chanced on the Photoshop program on an idle iMac. Since then, I was thoroughly impressed by the cool aspects of photo editing and am still learning new features everyday.

http://vickywilliams.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/photoshop-cs2-splash.gif

A technology I want to use in my classroom One-on-One laptop Wireless Internet Blog & Web 2.0 ( Ning is a

cool one) Video Podcast Sakai ( a free software tool

for classroom management)

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My vision of the classroom of the future

It will be a place with many stimulating educational aids for experiential learning, drilling, and practicing.

A big touch screen board will be used for interactive communication.

Students will work together in visual worlds like Second Life.

http://www.techherding.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/sl_best_practices_presentation.jpg

A challenge for teaching

Making a difficult lesson to be easy and understandable.

Serving every student’s need.

Limited of time and resources.

Helping them to learn by themselves and arm them to be ready for a real world.

Words of wisdom

“life is so short, do whatever you want now or never. Do not say you have no time, only death has no time”

:: anonymous quotation

from various sources

and edited by Sam ::