History of Computing in Learning and Education

04/03/2024

Help! Help! Calling all history of ed tech enthusiasts. We need to curate hundreds of documents and artifacts now uncatalogued and scattered about our storage space. This unique archive is in a high fire risk location and needs attention as soon as possible. Much of the work will have to be done on site in rural Sonoma County but there is also a lot that can be accomplished online including fundraising so that we can buy preservation-quality storage materials.

Just for starters we need to fill the following volunteer positions:
Volunteer recruiter/manager
Java programmer to upgrade custom catalog software
Document scanner/filer
Webmaster..and many more.

Please message Liza Loop or post a reply here to volunteer.

03/28/2024

Rest in peace, Carol Vesecky. Thank you for working with me and LO*OP Center, Inc. for more than 38 years. I remember fondly our efforts bringing Soviet kids to visit the US in 1985, translating Jeavon's "How to Grow More Vegetables" in Russian and launching Biointensive for Russia, and your years of serving on the LO*OP Center Board of Trustees. Of course, we also went through the joys and angst of raising teenagers in Palo Alto together! You did it all with enthusiasm, perseverance, grace, and humor. May your legacy continue to bring well-being to humanity.

01/18/2024

After several year, the nonprofit I lead, LO*OP Center, Inc., is updating our website (loopcenter.org). We would like to include some testimonials from folks we have impacted over our 48 years of operation. If you have something nice to say about LO*OP, please post it here and/or email it to me. We're looking for two or three sentences with maybe a picture. We also need your permission to repost it on the new website and whether you want us to include your name or keep it anonymous. Thanks in advance, Liza

09/15/2023

Everyone, please join us this Saturday, September 14 at 6:30PM EDT for a moderated talk with Liza Loop, Cynthia Solomon, Brian Silverman and Margaret Morabito. This informal chat among early computer education pioneers will be moderated by Jeff Brace of the Vintage Computer Federation. It will be on VCF's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ If you have any questions that you want asked join our Discord channel and ask them there on the Vintage Computing Federation Discord server under -tech.

08/30/2022

Any fans of early internet bulletin boards might enjoy the latest additions to 'Early Conferencing and Internet' section on
History of Computing in Learning and Education (www dot hcle dot org)

We are actively building this site and welcome contributions of scanned items and your labor. Our focus is the intersection of computing and learning, not the whole computing industry. Education includes learning with, through, and about computing.

There are many undiscovered gems in the LO*OP Center archive. This website is just a sample. In the future I hope to be able to add a blurb to each item in the online collection that explains where the item fits in the development of ed tech and why the item is significant. If you see something you know about don't hesitate to send us some notes to publish.

Enjoy

05/13/2022

In February, 2022, I was interviewed about more experience with the Apple 1. You can watch it here, minute 20:11 to minute 57:22. Of course, the rest of the video is interesting too! Cheers, Liza Loop

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08/30/2021

08/30/2021

A huge thank you to Logan Greer who just spent last week (Aug. 21-28, 2021) cleaning and refurbishing our four Apple IIs and several monitors. He also moved many, many boxes, sorted out piles of miscellaneous equipment, organized and strategized. He'll be back soon to work on more equipment and keep this museum moving forward. Our goal is to inventory and catalog all of our vintage machines and to get as many of them running as possible.

Who else wants to jump in to preserve the story of how computing "invaded" education? We could use 20 more volunteers like Logan!

03/04/2020

Bart at the HomeComputerMuseum in Helmont, Neatherlands

03/02/2020

I just heard from Bart Van Der Akkers, founder of the Home Computer Museum in Helmond, Netherlands (see www.homecomputer.museum) Here's a video tour of the Museum. Looks great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8dexRPxeRs

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02/16/2020

Check out this latest edition of IAE Newsletter by our board member, David Moursund.

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