{"id":8,"date":"2022-09-23T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/?p=8"},"modified":"2022-09-23T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:09:45","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/2022\/09\/23\/beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer, Tom in the team got a call from an old family friend to ask if we could have a look at 'some old computers' that were in a shed in the bottom of a garden - quite close to the University. It was with a view to seeing if we might be able to do something with them.<\/p>\n<p>What we ended up finding was an archive of equipment that we REALLY weren't expecting.<br \/>\nThis has led over the course of the summer to us founding the Education Technology Archive (ETA), based at the main campus of the University of Bath.<\/p>\n<p>What we found was slightly mind-blowing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed1-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed1-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed1-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed1-288x215.png 288w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed1.png 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed2-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed2-161x215.png 161w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed2.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a collection of computers and other associated learning equipment from the 1970s onwards!<\/p>\n<p>So we've been planning all summer for what to do with all of it. And we've now worked that out - and this collection launches the ETA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer, Tom in the team got a call from an old family friend to ask if we could have a look at 'some old computers' that were in a shed in the bottom of a garden - quite...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-eta"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2022\/09\/ETA-Shed2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/eta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}