Presentation Tools Through Time

Tech Fest 2013WIU Library Instruction Unit

Sean Cordes Mahrya CarncrossJustin Georges

Why call it a Black Board anyway?

Your very

important

educational

message here

Perhaps the most durable instrument of American education, it would remain a standard tool from the era of the one-room schoolhouse to the computer age

1890

Stereoscope-1905

As the turn of the century, the Keystone View Company began to market stereoscopes – three-dimensional viewing devices popular in home parlors – to schools, with educational sets containing hundreds of images.

Skinner Teaching Machine- 1957

B. F. Skinner, a behavioral scientist, developed a series of devices that allowed a student to proceed at his or her own pace through a regimented program of instruction. The student completes a question by writing the answer in the answer space. The student finds out immediately if they are right or wrong.

Educational Television - 1958

By the early sixties, there were more than 50 channels of TV which included educational programming that aired across the country.

A good projection…

Which came first, the cog or the wheel

and tech marches on…..

New and improved!

Overhead Projector

By the 1950s, the overhead projector was ubiquitous. Information was displayed on transparency sheets or rolls as a visual accompaniment to presentations. It has been largely replaced by LCD overhead displays and document cameras.

Modernity.

*Sigh*

Classroom Map

Once a fixture of the American classroom, the pull-down map allowed instructors to integrate geography into daily lessons. Now we have LCD projectors.

Aye, Robot…

lets slide into the future…..

Laserdisc - 1978

Before Blu-ray, high-definition (HD) or standard DVDs, movie enthusiasts could watch movies on a disc known as the laser disc. These large discs were more than double the size of a standard DVD, but they offered many of the same options and features that can be found on a DVD. Although they never took off in the mainstream market, laser disc collectors still hold on to and look for these rarities today. Many classrooms incorporated laser discs for language lessons, science videos and history videos. Limited class time allowed the laser disc to be preferred over the VHS tape due to easier navigation (chapter selection) and no rewind time.

Interactive Whiteboard - 1999

The chalkboard got a facelift with the whiteboard. That got turned into a more interactive system that uses a touch-sensitive white screen, a projector, and a computer. Still getting slowly rolled out to classrooms right now, betcha didn’t know they were first around in 1999!

SMART board

Like a chalkboard on steroids, the SMART board allows users to combine the power of writing with the interactivity of an iPad.

Some things never(really)

CHANGE…….

PowerPoint

Launched in 1990, PowerPoint quickly became the de facto presentation tool for both business and education. It allows information to be shared quickly and can be an effective visual. Beware, however, of “death by PowerPoint.”

By PowerPoint

slain…

To boring

meetings

Never again

Laser Pointer

Laser pointers allow a presenter to indicate a particular piece of text or projected image. Not to be used for entertaining cats or terrorizing commercial airline pilots.

New=Better?

Well Holo ‘bout that!