Reports, correspondence and papers
Description
Reports, correspondence and papers of Noel C. Bridgeman, relating to the use of computer technology in New Zealand secondary schools in the 1980s, including information about the National Apple School Network. Report titled "Taranaki Land-Based Development Trust Rural Information Access Project", 1995; and another "Report on the acheivement of the Information Systems Research Centre objectives for 1996", 1996. The former relates to Taranaki farmers' computer technology needs; the second relates to the work of the Information Systems centre in the Faculty of Business Studies at Taranaki Polytechnic.
Object detail
Box 1 - Folder 1
Correspondence with B. Eardley-Wilmot at CED Distributors Ltd. About the use of Apple computers, software and programming language in schools.
Box 1 - Folder 2
Correspondence with Brian Stokes, Hamilton Teachers College, regarding a Pascal Circuit, and the publication of 'The Electric Apple' magazine.
Box 1 - Folder 3
Correspondence to the National Apple School Network regarding its functioning
Box 1 - Folder 4
Contains information on the National Apple School Network, including description of a physics programme for senior secondary school pupils written in applesoft basic; other notes relating to network contacts at other high schools and resources provided to them (discs).
Box 1 - Folder 5
Listing of schools which in 1982 owned Apple computers, provided to Bridgeman by Brian Wilmot at CED Distributors.
Box 1 - Folder 6
Correspondence (1982) relating to a Department of Education 1981 survey of computer equipment in schools, which intended to monitor the growth of computer education in New Zealand schools. Syllabuses of computer awareness courses at five different high schools. Draft outlines for Computer Studies courses and a Sixth Form certificate in "additional maths". Descriptive summary of survey results on computer awareness in schools, with sections also on computer education in schools and its status (courses, staffing, facilities, needs), and sex role stereotyping in mathematics textbooks. The June 1980 edition of 'Mathematics Newsletter', published by the Department of Education.
Box 1 - Folder 7
Two 1994 newspapter articles about the ninth Technic Computer Awards for school students; another about Noel Bridgeman and the NZ Online project, and the effort of Taranaki Polytech to connect to the internet and identify commercial uses.
Box 1 - Folder 8
Two reports by Bridgeman, titled "Taranaki Land-Based Development Trust Rural Information Access Project", 1995; and another "Report on the acheivement of the Information Systems Research Centre objectives for 1996", 1996. The former relates to Taranaki farmers' computer technology needs; the second relates to the work of the Information Systems centre in the Faculty of Business Studies at Taranaki Polytechnic.
Note two theses by Bridgeman and one by Irene Davey were donated and are now in the Taranaki Research Centre collection.
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