Liza Loop
Liza Loop is an educational technology pioneer, technical author, and consultant notable for her early use of computers in education, her creation of a public-access computer center, and consulting work with Atari in the 1970s.
In 1975, she co-created the LO*OP Center (Learning Options * Open Portal) non-profit organization.[1] In 1975 LO*OP opened the second public access computer center located outside a museum. After visiting the center, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was impressed enough with her work that he gave her the first ever Apple computer ever produced to use in her center.[2] For most of 1976 the center's Apple I was the only Apple I in the North Bay.[3]
In 1978, when Atari was developing the Atari 800 home computer, Loop convinced Atari that there was a market for home computers that children and adults could use for learning.[4]
The Liza Loop Papers from 1972 to 1984 (donated in 1986) are housed in Stanford University Libraries' manuscript division and detail the early years of educational computing.[5][lower-alpha 1]
In the early 21st century, she became an advocate of preserving the early history of computing in education.
Bibliography
- Loop, Liza; Christensen, Paul (Nov 1980). Exploring the Microcomputer Learning Environment, Report #5, Independent Research and Development Project Reports (PDF). San Francisco, California: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- Loop, Liza; Anton, Julia; Zamora, Ramon (1982). ComputerTown. A Do-It-Yourself Community Computer Project. (PDF). Menlo Park, California: People's Computer Company. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- Loop, Liza; Anton, Julie; Zamora, Ramon (1983). ComputerTown, bringing computer literacy to your community. Reston, Va.: Reston Pub. Co. ISBN 9780835908849. OCLC 9324057
Notes
- ↑ According to a wiki page by Liza Loop, Loop donated half of her papers from this era to the Computer History Museum. As of 2014, that half remained unindexed.
References
- ↑ "History of Computing in Learning and Education Virtual Museum". LO*OP Center, Inc. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Liza founded LO*OP Center, Inc. in 1975 to provide a nonprofit home for innovative educational project led by herself and others.
- ↑ Hill, Adriene. "Classroom Tech: A history of hype and disappointment". Learning Curve. Marketplace. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ Tom Owad (17 February 2005). Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage. Syngress. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-0-08-049921-5.
- ↑ Marty Goldberg; Curt Vendel (2012). Atari Inc. Business Is Fun. Syzygy Press. pp. 458–. ISBN 978-0-9855974-0-5.
In May 1978, Liza Loop (a consultant specializing on the various uses of computers in education) is brought in ... She sees the Atari home computers as a viable tool that could bypass the school and the traditional education process and bring real learning directly into the home.
- ↑ Stanford University Libraries. "Guide to the Liza Loop Papers, 1972 - 1984, Collection number: M1141". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
External links
- Cappetta, Jon (March 10, 2015). "Interview with Liza Loop: Q and A". HCLE Virtual Museum. History of Computing for Learning in Education (HCLE), LO*OP Center, Inc. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- LO*OP Center, Inc., Learning Options*Open Portal, non-profit educational project founded by Liza Loop, Dean Brown and Stuart Cooney
- ANTIC, the Atari 8-bit Podcast (April 27, 2015). "ANTIC Interview 38 – Liza Loop, Technical Writer". HCLE Virtual Museum. History of Computing for Learning in Education (HCLE), LO*OP Center, Inc. Retrieved April 29, 2015.