The Learning Technology Timeline encompasses a great deal of information, but IÍm not sure that it is adequately depicting how certain technologies are able to assist in learning.
Technologies like a telephone, telegraph, television or radio are all noteworthy inventions and should no doubt be mention herein, but in the timeline entry descriptions often fail to point out what they did to affect learning. When you look back to the television Ü itÍs easy to see how it affected communications, but what did it do to affect learning? More details on how each invention within the timeline is utilized daily to help people learn would really add to the completeness of its learning aspect.
For instance, writing was first seen in China in 1400 BC (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1400bbrixey.html), but writing was invented, not for the purpose of education, but for many diverse uses Ü like record keeping and story writing. I think that along with the before and after that is present in the timeline it would be beneficial to have a section on applications of that technology in classroom or learning environments. The Internet acts as a wonderful communications medium Ü but there is no mention of how it is used to connect virtual classrooms or share research from Asia to Antarctica.
These kinds or contributions to the timeline would enhance the timelines presence as a repository for technology guided learning advancements and could aid to paint a more complete picture of how we got to our present state of technology based learning.