Significant Events in Educational Technology

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  • First video game

  • Mimeograph machine

  • Sesame Street

  • Hand-Held Calculator

  • First Microprocessor Invented

  • Ethernet invented

  • PLATO Computer

  • First IBM-PC

  • Xerox machines

  • Cassette Tapes

  • First Apple Mcintosh

  • Classroom computers

  • Computer labs

  • Classroom telephones

  • Classroom Televisions with VHS

  • First interactive white boards

  • Email for All Staff

  • Virginia implements Web-based Standards of Learning

  • Online SOL testing began in Virginia

  • VHS replaced by DVD

  • Virginia educational Information Management System began providing data disaggregation capabilities

  • Virginia began funding Instructional Technology Resource Teachers to integrate technology

  • Virtual Virginia launched

  • YouTube launches

  • Virginia creates a network of more than 1,200 ITRTs

  • Virginia becomes 1st state to require Internet safety be taught

  • Virginia launches Share the Skies

  • Yowell Elementary opens

  • Virginia initiative Learning without Boundaries

  • Virginia on iTunes U provides repository for standards-based media-rich content

  • Physics flexbook created to supplement traditions physics textbook with emerging topics

  • Apple iPads launch

  • iPads in classrooms

  • CCPS improves bandwidth

  • Yowell closed circuit TV station broadcasts