Author: Alison Gazzard
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262552027
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of computers and computing.” The BBC accompanied this initiative with television programs, courses, books, and software—an early experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny's Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard's account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.
Now the Chips Are Down
Author: Alison Gazzard
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262552027
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of computers and computing.” The BBC accompanied this initiative with television programs, courses, books, and software—an early experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny's Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard's account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262552027
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of computers and computing.” The BBC accompanied this initiative with television programs, courses, books, and software—an early experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny's Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard's account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.
In Granny's Garden
Author: Sarah Harrison
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224018678
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young boy encounters a brontosaurus in his grandmother's garden.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224018678
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young boy encounters a brontosaurus in his grandmother's garden.
A Green Granny's Garden
Author: Fionna Hill
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730493113
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Urban gardening for beginners While Fionna will be the first to tell you she's not actually a Granny in the biological sense, she is most definitely a wise woman of the world who meets all the criteria for anyone's favourite Gran. When she decided to improve her health and grow her own food she had to find somewhere to grow it. Living in urban Auckland severely limited her options. While she could manage window boxes of micro-greens, she yearned for more space - and was utterly delighted to eventually find herself with a plot in the Grey Lynn Community Garden. Written from her experiences over the course of a year (give or take a few weeks) she documents the sheer delight and pleasure of exploring urban gardening as a beginner in a communal environment. the experience has brought her immense joy and some wild and wonderful moments of unexpected humour. In a breathtakingly honest, direct and fabulously original and delightfully wacky way, she takes the reader by the hand and shares her exploits, adventures, misadventures, successes, failures and enthusiasms as she discovers what works and what doesn't. Wonderfully honest, supremely life affirming and a book for gardeners and non-gardeners alike, if you aren't inspired by the end of A GREEN GRANNY'S GARDEN to go forth and plant then we're dreadfully sorry - you might as well go and put both feet in the grave right now.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730493113
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Urban gardening for beginners While Fionna will be the first to tell you she's not actually a Granny in the biological sense, she is most definitely a wise woman of the world who meets all the criteria for anyone's favourite Gran. When she decided to improve her health and grow her own food she had to find somewhere to grow it. Living in urban Auckland severely limited her options. While she could manage window boxes of micro-greens, she yearned for more space - and was utterly delighted to eventually find herself with a plot in the Grey Lynn Community Garden. Written from her experiences over the course of a year (give or take a few weeks) she documents the sheer delight and pleasure of exploring urban gardening as a beginner in a communal environment. the experience has brought her immense joy and some wild and wonderful moments of unexpected humour. In a breathtakingly honest, direct and fabulously original and delightfully wacky way, she takes the reader by the hand and shares her exploits, adventures, misadventures, successes, failures and enthusiasms as she discovers what works and what doesn't. Wonderfully honest, supremely life affirming and a book for gardeners and non-gardeners alike, if you aren't inspired by the end of A GREEN GRANNY'S GARDEN to go forth and plant then we're dreadfully sorry - you might as well go and put both feet in the grave right now.
Grannys Garden
Author: Brendan Betances
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448836107
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
This tale follows a day in Granny's garden, where special care is taken to grow flowers and vegetables. Books of the Neighborhood Readers Program build early literacy skills, introduce important content-area language, and help develop speaking and writing skills. They can be integrated into any existing language arts or core reading programs.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448836107
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
This tale follows a day in Granny's garden, where special care is taken to grow flowers and vegetables. Books of the Neighborhood Readers Program build early literacy skills, introduce important content-area language, and help develop speaking and writing skills. They can be integrated into any existing language arts or core reading programs.
In Granny's Garden
Author: Sarah Harrison
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780030508769
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young boy encounters a brontosaurus in his grandmother's garden.
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780030508769
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young boy encounters a brontosaurus in his grandmother's garden.
Granny's Garden
Author: Donald Weis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105233197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105233197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Granny's Garden
Author: Cynthia Engel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449075495
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
It is never too late to make your dreams come true, as Granny discovers with the help of her friends young and old. Watch Granny's dream unfold on every page.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449075495
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
It is never too late to make your dreams come true, as Granny discovers with the help of her friends young and old. Watch Granny's dream unfold on every page.
Granny's Garden
Author: Dianne Dempsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578008929
Category : Grandmothers
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This delightful story follows Granny and Baby as they take a whimsical romp through the great outdoors, exploring with all five senses. All Proceeds Benefit WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578008929
Category : Grandmothers
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This delightful story follows Granny and Baby as they take a whimsical romp through the great outdoors, exploring with all five senses. All Proceeds Benefit WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL
Sarah's Quilt
Author: Nancy E. Turner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312332631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312332631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Moving the Classroom Outdoors
Author: Herbert W. Broda
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571107916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool. --from publisher description.
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571107916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool. --from publisher description.