Comments on: Where did my fifth grade education go? http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Steve http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2563 Steve Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:00:10 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2563 It's interesting that you say that, David, because the main reason I registered Dembo.org (don't bother going there, site is down right now) was because I thought my kids might want a place to publish their work someday. You never know when you may have a use for a site. It’s interesting that you say that, David, because the main reason I registered Dembo.org (don’t bother going there, site is down right now) was because I thought my kids might want a place to publish their work someday. You never know when you may have a use for a site.

]]> By: Casey Hales http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2561 Casey Hales Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:29:50 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2561 OK, now you have to post your, "My Name is Asher Lev", work. This I gotta read! :) Lifetime Personal Webspace is an interesting concept. Reminds me of those "Lifetime Memberships" at places like Blockbuster, or even Enron. Whose lifetimes are they talking about? Mine or theirs? My luck, after a lifetime of posting to their site, their server crashes... :( OK, now you have to post your, “My Name is Asher Lev”, work. This I gotta read! :)

Lifetime Personal Webspace is an interesting concept. Reminds me of those “Lifetime Memberships” at places like Blockbuster, or even Enron. Whose lifetimes are they talking about? Mine or theirs?
My luck, after a lifetime of posting to their site, their server crashes… :(

]]> By: David Muir http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2559 David Muir Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:53:48 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2559 I heard someone speaking a good few years ago now and he said, "Soon you will register your child's web address at the same time you register its birth". Everyone, he thought, will have their own webspace where they can keep a record of their life and their interests. At the time I thought he was daft. This was pre-Dreamweaver and WYSIWYG editors and creating web pages was for techies and geeks. Unfortunately I can't remember his name otherwise I'd send him an email to apologise for doubting his sanity. I'm still not convinced that it will happen in the very near future, but I can now see it might well happen! As to how far back my personal archives go... when we moved house two years ago I finally threw out all my 5.25" disks. They dated from the late eighties and were for the BBC microcomputer (more or less unheard of outside the UK I suspect, but a fantastic machine for its time and just perfect for schools). The word processor was called Wordwise. I transferred some of the stuff to 3.5" Macintosh disks. At the time I used MacWrite, so although I still have some of the disks I suspect they are more or less unreadable now... along with all my early DTPed worksheets (Ready, Set Go! I think). More or less useless, but I hung on to them anyway. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I heard someone speaking a good few years ago now and he said, “Soon you will register your child’s web address at the same time you register its birth”. Everyone, he thought, will have their own webspace where they can keep a record of their life and their interests. At the time I thought he was daft. This was pre-Dreamweaver and WYSIWYG editors and creating web pages was for techies and geeks. Unfortunately I can’t remember his name otherwise I’d send him an email to apologise for doubting his sanity. I’m still not convinced that it will happen in the very near future, but I can now see it might well happen!

As to how far back my personal archives go… when we moved house two years ago I finally threw out all my 5.25″ disks. They dated from the late eighties and were for the BBC microcomputer (more or less unheard of outside the UK I suspect, but a fantastic machine for its time and just perfect for schools). The word processor was called Wordwise. I transferred some of the stuff to 3.5″ Macintosh disks. At the time I used MacWrite, so although I still have some of the disks I suspect they are more or less unreadable now… along with all my early DTPed worksheets (Ready, Set Go! I think). More or less useless, but I hung on to them anyway. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

]]> By: Alfred Thompson http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2557 Alfred Thompson Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:13:32 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/04/18/where-did-my-fifth-grade-education-go/#comment-2557 You'd probably be interested in Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits project. http://www.research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx You’d probably be interested in Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits project. http://www.research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

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