Many potent things have happened in our lifetimes and hand-held computers is one of them. It was not always so. Computers at first were huge! Now no longer, but handheld one another held. Much of mighty computations and connections are in the iPhones we carry about.
Let us not forget that in this birthing here in Minnesota was our local educational software. Among them was "Oregon Trail", created by our local Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium. It led students to immerse themselves in that compuer trail just as our west-bound forebears were...we learned from mistakes or bad luck that failed us.
The Oregon Trail software was found every which-where, mimicking the troubled travels west to Oregon. One made it or not. And much was learned by all who played it everywhere and enjoyed it, everywhere.
Those creators who gave "Oregon Trail" to the world later have given our youth anti-vaping gaming software ....“1Up On Vaping” combines graphic novel style animation, intriguing story-telling and current game technology to explore how and why using nicotine is never a good choice..
After sharing your old commentary on the Kite Runner with a friend who didnt know about the Writers Almanac, I told her I often read your column to get me out of a blue place. Maybe I will finally send you a token of my appreciation, thanks. from Barbara in Maine
Bethesda isn’t so far from Richmond! Won’t you consider coming there? (Just can’t make that trek up north on I95!!)
Many potent things have happened in our lifetimes and hand-held computers is one of them. It was not always so. Computers at first were huge! Now no longer, but handheld one another held. Much of mighty computations and connections are in the iPhones we carry about.
Let us not forget that in this birthing here in Minnesota was our local educational software. Among them was "Oregon Trail", created by our local Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium. It led students to immerse themselves in that compuer trail just as our west-bound forebears were...we learned from mistakes or bad luck that failed us.
The Oregon Trail software was found every which-where, mimicking the troubled travels west to Oregon. One made it or not. And much was learned by all who played it everywhere and enjoyed it, everywhere.
Those creators who gave "Oregon Trail" to the world later have given our youth anti-vaping gaming software ....“1Up On Vaping” combines graphic novel style animation, intriguing story-telling and current game technology to explore how and why using nicotine is never a good choice..
Press on! You never know what's coming next!
After sharing your old commentary on the Kite Runner with a friend who didnt know about the Writers Almanac, I told her I often read your column to get me out of a blue place. Maybe I will finally send you a token of my appreciation, thanks. from Barbara in Maine