1961-1963
Student at MCEGGS
primary and secondary schooling
1964-1967
Monash student
Arts and Law faculties
1968
Perugia University, Italy
Studying Italian language, literature, art, architecture and history
1968
Married
Married in December to Peter Nevile
1969
Maths teacher at MLC (Kew)
Untrained teacher working with senior maths students
1970-1973
Domestic activities
3 children, part-time employment, completed B.Juris/LLB
1974 -1980
Caulfield Institute (now Monash Business School)
Senior tutor in Law, birth of daughter. Computers were managing 500 law students' assessment etc.
1977
Control Data released Plato
Plato was a very sophisticated virtual teacher
1990-94
Sunrise Research Laboratory, RMIT
Director of SRL, Senior Lecturer, Business faculty
May 1979
CEGV Conf at La Trobe Uni
Speakers included Alan Kay, Jim Howe, man from Oregon, ... etc
1980-86
EdTech consultant
Working at Geelong Grammar School/Glamorgan
1981
International 'Logo' trip
Visit to the US and the UK to see what people were doing with Logo, in particular, and other software. Met Seymour Papert, Andy diSessa and Hal Abelson and many more...
1981
Logo Conf at MIT
International Logo Conf - met lots of people from around the world
1981-83
VAECG Summer Sessions
Holiday program for First People children
1983-1988
'Turtle' books published
Logo programming books written for children and teachers, used for pre-service teacher training.
1983-4
CEGV Services
Convenor
1984-86
Barson Research
Director
1986-90
Coordinator, Ed Tech Theme at ACER
Co-ordinator of Theme. Started thinking about the future...working in particular with Dr Barry McGaw, Director, and Dr Helga Rowe, wonderful cognitive psychologist.
1987
Launch Sunrise School
Launch of first Sunrise School, located in the Victorian Museum. Participants came from PHSC and VUT (then Footscray Institute of Technology.
1988-9
Sunrise School in Museum Victoria
Twice a week students came from Princes Hill Secondary College and a class of primary pre-service teachers came for a semester from Victoria University, once a week.
1990 - 2000
Employed at RMIT
Moved Sunrise Research Laboratory from ACER to RMIT and continued doing the same work...
1990
Boxer project work started..
Worked with several graduate students and some school children having 'work experience' and with several students in their schools.
1992-4
Sunrise @ RMIT
Director of professional development project for RMIT (called Sunrise @ RMIT) and involved about 25? professors from across the University
1994
Master of Education - RMIT
Full time student continuing working full time
1995, 1996, 1997
Cuccioli e Multimedia
Week long workshops and conference in Desenzano, Italy
- chaired by Gigi Tagliapietra
1996----
OZeKIDS Project
Director