Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Feb. 10 - Chapter 3 Part 3

Chapter 3, Part 3
  • ICT/TQS – Information Communication Technology/ Teacher Quality Standards
  • TQS - Responsible for the first three pages
    -Technology, Section J
    -Interim. Teacher’s Certificate
  • ICT – Three Sections
    *Communicating
    *Foundations
    *Productivity

  • Technology Timeline
    -1890 - The first census machine was made and used in the United States. This was used to count the population.
    -1945 - E.N.I.A.C.
    -Weighed 30 tons
    -Apartment sized
    -Cost $500,000.00 to build
    -Used to calculate firing variables (Bomb Calculator)
    -Used punch cards
    -Used vacuum tubes that would heat up to 174,000 watts.
    -1951 – Transistor
    -Miniaturized computing
    -1969 – ARPAnet
    -Grandpa of the internet
    -Scientists in the military could still communicate in the occurrence of nuclear bombs
    -1975 – Computer Kits
    -Available at the corner store
    -1977 – Apple came into existence
    -Commodore – 8 bit computers
    -1982 – Year of the computer
    -Time magazine
    -1982 – MS- DOS released
    -1984 – Apple introduced the Macintosh
    -128 kb.
    -G.U.I. (Graphical User Interface)
    -1987 – Hyper Card
    -Hyper Studio
    -Original Power Point
    -Intro to multimedia
    -1990 – C.E.R.N.
    -Tim Berners Lee
    -Invented the World Wide Web (WWW)
    -1990 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
    -1993 – Apple introduced Power Book (the first laptop)
    -Weighed 7 lbs
    -1/7th of a cubic ft
    -36 mb RAM
    -1993 – MOSAIC (first web browser)
    -Allowed you to use links, pictures... (graphical web browser)
    -1997 – Intel
    -Invented the Intel Chip
    -Is the brain of the computer
    -Can do a trillion calculations per second
    -667 million calculations in the time it takes a bullet to travel 30cm/1ft
    -2009 – Web-Enhanced Smart Phones
Thanks to Conor for the posting.

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