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History of Media and Technology
Brief History

Media and technological advances have made leaps and bounds over the past century.
From handwritten letters and newspapers in the 1800s, we progressed to radios and
movie theatres in the early 1900s and then to television in the 1940s. Today, we have
satellite television, the internet and smart phones. In the early 1900s the total daily
newspaper circulation in the U.S, averaged over 15 million copies. Telephones were just
merging onto the market, radio technology was primarily being researched by the Navy,
and multiple reel movies were produced. By the 1920s, an estimated 40 million movie
tickets were sold, over 2.5 million radio sets were sold in the U.S. and home movie
equipment was introduced by Kodak. The 1930s begins the age of television. Electronic
typewriters also begin to emerge and Western Union introduces coast to coast fax service.
As early as the 1940s we begin to see the early stages of computers with the introduction
of a teletypewriter, calculated that was tied by phone lines to demonstrate remote
computing. By the end of the 1940s there was a shift from radio to television and color
television set begin selling in the 1951. During this decade stereo music tapes went on the
market as did the Univac, the first massed produced computer. With the invention of the
microchip near the end of the decade, the computer revolution was born. Media and
technology continued to evolve during the 60’s and the 70’s with newspapers and
magazines digitizing production, the invention of the floppy disk, the first digital wireless
network, Linkabit was created in San Diego, California, and the word “internet” enters
the lexicon. By the 1980s, video games are all the rage. We get closed-caption
television. Some major newspapers offer online text versions, and CDs begin to outsell
vinyl records. The 1990s burst with media advances such as the development of HTML
which facilitated the creation of the World Wide Web. By 1998, an estimated 150 million
people were using the internet and traffic on the internet was doubling ever 100 days. In
the past twenty years, the world has seen technology devices decrease in size while the
amount of information is holds continues to increase. We have moved away from single
specialized devices to “bundled” devices such as the Iphone with internet access, camera,
phone, text messaging, email retrieval, etc. The list goes on and on, growing
exponentially day by day. People today can access information through any number of
ways. As the access to information becomes easier, the sharing of ideas follows suit, and
the advances in media and technology increase faster than ever before

1900: U.S. has 2,150 daily newspapers, 478 tri- or semi-weeklies, 14,717 weeklies.
1900: First overseas phone call, from Key West to Havana.
1901: First electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer.
1902: Images can be transferred by photoelectric scanning.
1902: Vivaphone, Chronophone, and Kinetophone synchronize sound and film.
1906: An animated cartoon film is produced, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces.
1909: First broadcast talk; the subject: women’s suffrage.
1910: Daily newspapers in U.S. peak at 2,200.
1910: Dance music is recorded.
1912: Universal Pictures Corporation is formed.
1913: The portable phonograph is manufactured.
1915: The 78 rpm record.
1915: Sonar.
1919: Shortwave radio is invented.
1920: The press release.
1920: Sound recording is done electrically. “Talkies” will follow.
1923: A picture, broken into dots, is sent by wire.
1925: A moving image, the blades of a model windmill, is telecast.
Information Literacy

Big 6 (Eisenberg & Berkowitz) http://www.big6.com/

Task Definition define problem and id info needed

Info seeking strategy determine and select sources of info
Location & access locate sources & find info within sources
Use of info extract relevant info
Synthesis organize and present relevant info
Evaluation judge product and process
Media Literacy
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Featured Web 2.0 Resources
1. WordPress http://wordpress.com/

2. Delicious http://www.delicious.com/meldyates

3. Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

4. PodBean http://www.podbean.com/start-podcast?sourceid=goog_66

5. Scribd http://www.scribd.com/

6. Diigo http://www.diigo.com/

7. Weebly http://www.weebly.com/

8. Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/

9. Reddit http://www.reddit.com/

10. Chatzy http://www.chatzy.com/

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http://pics4learning.com/
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
http://web2010.discoveryeducation.com/web20tools.cfm
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites067.shtml
http://www.tech4learning.com/videos
http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.pdphoto.org/