For Inquiry this term Room 15 are learning about how we keep connected with people throughout the world using different modes of communication.
This week we brainstormed all of the different types of communication we knew and then ranked them in order from what we thought was the oldest to the newest.
We want to find out if we are right so we have developed some questions that we think will help us confirm our answers.
We would really like as many people to answer these questions as possible. Please leave a comment with your answers along with your name and your age (if you don't mind!)
Can you please make your responses really specific so it helps us with our inquiry.
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years old?
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with people?
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends and family when you were 10 years old?
4) When did you get your first cell phone?
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around the country and the world?
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say thank you?
Thank you very much for helping us answer our questions. We will let you know soon if our guesses were correct.
Regards
Room 15
19 comments:
1) Letters, phone, telegrams, radio, television.
2) Wrote regular letters, made phone calls, listened to radio and watched TV
3) Yes, we did use the landline when I was 10 - no mobiles then!
4) got my first cellphone as a work phone - working in the film industry in around 1980 - it was a very large, heavy brick-like phone
5) No, never made a message in a bottle.
6) Listened to radio and watched TV - and also newspapers to get national and international news - also News of the World clips at the movies.
7) yes - received a telegram in 1978 - was congratulations from a friend in UK on a successful job application.
8) Said thank you for gifts sometimes by phone, in person, or by writing a thank you note.
From Robyn, Annie's Mum, 52 years old.
Hi - this is from Joanna Kelly (Drew's Mum). I'm 46 years old.
My answers:
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years old? We had telephones (most homes had a phone - & there were public payphones that you put coins into to use). To keep in touch with freinds & relatives overseas or in other parts of NZ I would write letters.
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with people?
Phones were connected to the wall (not like mobile phones or wireless phones that people have nowadays) so you had to stay in the same place when you were talking on the phone to someone. I used to enjoy writing letters & I used to especially enjoy recieving letters - it was very exciting reciving a letter from overseas. I used to collect the stamps. I also had some penpals in overseas countries
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends and family when you were 10 years old? Yes - I would sometimes phone my freinds on the phone - but I didnt really like using it very much. I preferred to meet my freinds & talk to them face-to-face.
4) When did you get your first cell phone? I got my first cellphone when I was about 25 years old. I got it because I worked for Telecom Mobile - the company that started up the first mobile phone network in NZ. The first phone I had was really big & heavy & it had a big shoulder strap to help carry it. It was called "A brick"
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle? No
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around the country and the world? Radio, television & newspapers
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it? No I have never recived a telegram.
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say thank you? If I got a gift from overseas I would send a thank you letter. If a got a gift handed to me- I would say thank you face-to-face.
Dear Room 15
I am Dawn Statham and I was born in 1965, which makes me 44 (wow thats old I can hear you all say!!!!!!!!).
I will try my very best to answer your questions and hopefully will get a house point.
1. When I was 10 years old, I can remember that we did have a telephone in our house. People could also communicate by sending telegrams and morse code could be used by ships. Also you could always send somebody a letter or have a carrier pigeon. 2. I had some family that had moved to Tasmania but because it was expensive to call overseas (remember we were in England) we had to communicate by writing, or we used to send my family a tape recording with messages on and they would send us one back so that we could hear their voices and share their news.
3. We did use our landline phone to call friends and family who lived local.
4. I got my first cell phone in 1998, a couple of weeks before Molly my eldest daughter was born.
5. Yes, I have sent a message in a bottle. When I was 18 I went on holiday to Barbados and sent a message in a bottle from the beach. I wonder if anybody found it??????????????????
6. When I was 10 I was only aware of news from around the world by watching the TV or reading the newspapers. However, when I left school and started work I found that news could travel around the world very quickly by a system called Reuters or a Telex machine. There is also a system called Bloomberg that bankers use, which is like an open e-mail chat line.
7. I have received a telegram. It was when I got married.
8. When I receive a gift from somebody I like to thank them in person or I think that it is nice to send a thank you card.
I hope that my answers have been of some help to you.
Good luck with the rest of your inquiry,
Dawn
From Murray Reece - Gus's Dad (age 68)
1)When I was ten (1949), modes of communication were by postal mail, telephone, telegram,and 'Ham' radio(for communicating with other 'Hams'around the world.
2)Only used letter-writing.
3)No. It was not that common in those days for children to be allowed to use the phone to speak to their friends. And a lot of homes didn't have phones.
(4) 1989
(5) No.
(6) Radio and newspapers. No TV!
(7) Many times. (from the '50's through to the 70's)
Hi Room 15, this is from Brett, Liam's Dad. I was born in Jan 1961, which makes me 48 years old. Here are my answers to help with your inquiry.
1) Modes of communication around when I was 10 - Phone, Letters, Telegrams, Morse Code!, Radio Telephone (used by Taxi Drivers, Truck Drivers etc)
2) I only used letters and phone when I was 10 years old - although I did make a "Can Phone" to talk to my neighbour (2 empty tin cans with a tight string in between).
3) Yes, I used a landline phone to keep in contact with friends. We were lucky enough to have 3 phones in our house which was very rare in 1971. I remember that they were coloured green with round dials.
4) I got my first cellphone in 1990. It had an aerial on it that folded out.
5) Yes, I did a put a message in a bottle. I put it into Lake Taupo, so I'm pretty sure it would have washed up somewhere - unless it went down the Waikato River, avoided all the power stations and then went out to sea!
6) To hear news from around the world, we watched TV (I think there was only one TV channel then), listened to the radio, and read newspapers.
7) Yes, I remember receiving a telegram in 1976. It was from a relation saying congratulations for passing a School Exam.
8) When I received a gift from someone, I would either phone them, or write to them to say thank you.
Good luck with your inquiry. Hope this helps....Brett A
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years
old?LETTERS.POSTCARDS.TELEGRAMS.TELEPHONE
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with
people?I WOULD WRITE LETTERS -WE ALL HAD PEN PALS WHEN I WENT TO MURITAI
SCHOOL-WE USED TO POST BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS AND CHRISTMAS CARDS AND SENT
POST CARDS TO OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHEN WE WENT ON HOLIDAY.I USED TO
RING MY FRIENDS AT THE WEEKEND TO ARRANGE SOMEONE TO PLAY AT MY PLACE OR
TO GO TO THEIR PLACE.
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends and
family when you were 10 years old?YES BUT ONLY LOCAL CALLS -MY
GRANDPARENTS LIVED IN OTAKI AND THAT WAS A LONG DISTANCE CALL AND SO WE
ONLY RARELY PHONED THEM.MY MOTHER KEPT IN TOUCH WITH THEM BY LETTER
4) When did you get your first cell phone?I GOT 1 A FEW YEARS AGO BUT
NEVER USE IT!I AM ON THE PHONE ALL DAY AT WORK SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A
BREAK FROM TALKING!
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?YES -I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO
GROW UP IN DAYS BAY SO MY BROTHERS AND I USED TO SEND MESSAGES IN A
BOTTLE FROM BELOW THE WHARF.WE NEVER GOT A REPLY THOUGH!!
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around the
country and the world?AT 10 WE STILL DIDN'T HAVE A TELEVISON SO WE
ALWAYS LISTENED TO THE RADIO -THE NATIONAL RADIO STATION WAS ALWAYS ON
IN OUR HOUSE.WE ALSO USED TO READ THE NEWSPAPER.
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?WHEN KEVIN AND I GOT
MARRIED WE GOT LOTS OF TELEGRAMS WISHING US GOOD LUCK -THAT WAS IN APRIL
1980
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say thank
you?WE WROTE AND POSTED THANK YOU CARDS THAT WE MADE OURSELVES OR
LETTERS
MEGAN HEWSON AGED 49.hope this helps.
Thank you very much for helping us answer our questions. We will let you
know soon if our guesses were correct.
Regards
Room 15
1. ways of communicating when I was young: letters, phone, telegram, TV, radio, newspapers, shortwave and longwave radio. There were lots of phone boxes in the streets then, more than there are today - can you remember what colour they were painted? We used to 'tap' the phone... get a free call by making clicks in a special code. You were very cool if you could do that.
calls cost 6c in the 1970's.
2. Connecting to people: I used phone a lot. I remember my dad having to ring all the players in the soccer team each week to tell them where the game was; and the cancellations were on 2ZB radio. they still are, but we use texts and emails now for organising the games and practices.
3. we had a home phone. They had dials.
4. I got a pager in 1993, and a mobile phone in 1995 (to keep in contact with the ladies).
5. Message in a bottle: no. But my class buried a message in a time capsule at my school in wellington.
We used to make radio transmitters at school as well, creating our own mini radio broadcasts to about the closest 10 houses next to my friend.
6. news: newspapers, radio and TV. We also heard about latest news by TALKING TO PEOPLE.
7. No. however I used email at university in 1989 to email my dad overseas. The internet started to link universities together.
8. Gifts: say thank you then and there, send a note.
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years
old?
postal, telegrams, phone, tv, radio, newspaper, short wave radio (my dad would talk to people all around the world on this), walkie talkies,
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with
people?
Postal - write to people to let them know how you were doing as well as find out how they were.
telegrams - congratulations for weddings
phone - general chit chat etc
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends
and family when you were 10 years old?
Yes, we had the old dial phone and I remember getting a push button phone when I was probably a teenager. My Aunty and Uncle lived on a farm when I was young and they had a shared phone line which meant that their neighbours all shared one line and you would each have their own ring sound so you knew if the phone was for you or for another neigbour.
4) When did you get your first cell phone?
32
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?
No
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around
the country and the world?
radio, TV, newspaper
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?
No
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say
thank you?
Letter or card of thanks to the oldies like grandparents perhaps but would only verbally say thanks to friends.
Thank you very much for helping us answer our questions. We will let
you know soon if our guesses were correct.
Regards
Room 15
Hello from Olly's mum. I'm 37 years old (only just) and my answers are as follows....
1) TV, Radio, Phone, Telegrams, Letters. Computers were around but not the internet or email! (and we didn't have one anyway). Also I remember about that age our family got an 'intercom' so mum would talk into it from upstairs to us kids downstairs to tell us when dinner was ready or the phone was for us or tell us to be quiet if she heard us fighting! My brothers and I also played outside with walkie talkies a lot (like you would use play station now)!!
2) I would write letters and use the phone to keep in contact with people.
3) I did use a landline when I was 10 years old but not that much. I'm sure it got a bashing when I was 14 years old though..infact I remember having a time restriction and only certain hours! I also used to use the red phone boxes where you put coins in and used the circular dial phones. I was very good at tapping these (so I didn't have to pay) until they came out with push button phones and I could no longer to that.
4) I got my first cell phone 10 years ago when I had Olly. My mum and I bought one together so we could keep in contact when she looked after Olly. I never used it much and never used txt until about 2 years later when all my friends made fun of me. I wish Olly's dad had had one when Olly was born as I couldn't get hold of him when I went into labour (it would have been very handy)!
5) Yep lots of times but I don't know if they ever left the shores of NZ or washed straight back in.
6) Watched TV and listened to the radio. I also remember at that age using the newspaper a lot for homework (current affairs etc).
7) I don't remember receiving a telegram. I do remember hearing them at peoples weddings though.
8) We always had to write thank you letters after birthdays and Xmas. (I still get my kids to do this sometimes after their birthdays or when someone has done something special for them)
Answers from Philothea Flynn - Flynn Gile's mum 47 yrs old - hope this is helpful and not too late!
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years
old?
In the Solomon Islands we had telephones (for local calls only), radio, telegrams (for overseas contact) and letters (overseas) and of course we spoke with each other. I spoke both english and pidgin english. There was one picture theatre in Honiara , but there was no television - (even when tv was available in NZ)
In the Solomons the locals also used drums to communicate in remote area and some shells which they used - sort of like horns, in one of the islands they communicated with the sharks by 'drumming' the water. The Solomon Islanders had different customs and lots of differerent ceremonies (including song and dance etc) for special communications.( I am guessing you don't mean ships and planes which in the Solomons was our way of contact to communicate via)
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2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with people?
Mainly as a 10 year old I would communicate with my family and friends in NZ by letter. With my local friends we just talked when we saw each other.
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends
and family when you were 10 years old?
No - the telephone was not frequently used.
4) When did you get your first cell phone?
4 years ago - when I was 43
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?
Yes, but only for fun not seriously for communicating.
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around
the country and the world?
Mum and Dad would listen to the BBC world service radio in the morning between 7 - 7.30am. Laterly a local radio station started up. Some people had ham? radios which they used to communicate with people around the world. The picture theatre in the Solomons sometimes showed the news before a movie - but going to the movies was abig treat, we might go 3 or 4 times a year at the very most. The news also spread by word of mouth - ie at school, church etc. Also when the ships came into Honiara we would get magazines and newspapers (they were always a few months out of date), they did start being sent by air and although that meant they were more up to date (sometimes only days old) it was alot more expensive.
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?
I remember Dad getting a telegram when his mum died and I think when his Dad died too. We received a telegram when my niece was born in NZ. (My memory is that mainly telegrams were received if someone had died)
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say
thank you?
We always wrote a thank you letter, I used to like drawing a picture as well as sending a letter. If the gift was given ie at a birthday party I didn't always write to say thank you to a friend.
Have fun with your studies, look forward to hearing more.
Ka kite ano
Phil
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years
old?
Telephone, Post, Fax (maybe)
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with
people?
Telephone - by talking to them
Post - by writing letters to friends and family, especially my grandparents who lived overseas
Fax - never used
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends
and family when you were 10 years old?
Yes.
4) When did you get your first cell phone?
When I was 31
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?
No
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around
the country and the world?
Television and the Sunday paper
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?
Yes. 1970's, when a relation died.
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say
thank you?
By letter, sent by post; or sometimes by phone
Dear Hailey
As I was born in 1928 two things become clear from the start.
1.Communication when I was 10 was fairly primitive in 1938.
2.Communication now I'm 80 gets a little beyond my capability sometimes (Blogs and things)
1. In 1938 Radio was not always reliable with old valve sets that always broke down and needed repair. Valves were like small light bulbs and a radio had up to 7 or 8 of these inside.
These were later replaced by Transistors but not until the 1960's and then small portable radios came in.
Telephone was a fixed wall machine with a handle that turned to contact the operator who answered and connected your number. Our number in a small town was 464 but some people shared the same number on a "Party Line". These had a morse code ring for a different letter for each person so that they knew who the call was for.
Telegrams were written on a form, then sent over the telephone wire or radio by Morse code, printed out on another form and delivered to our house by a Telegraph Boy on a bike. These were quite expensive , so much per word.
This was the time just before the second World War so we all got used to hearing the town Sirens sounding off from the Fire Station to warn of Emergencies or calling out the Home Guard etc. Fortunately for us it was always only practice and not the real thing.
Mail delivered by the postman was, as now, the main method of contact both for personal and business reasons.
2. I used the Phone a bit to talk to my friends, but in those days in a small community it was not quite so necessary as we saw a lot of each other anyway.
In the Boy Scouts we used to send messages by Semaphore using flag signals from one hill to the next, and made our own Morse Keys for sending by Morse Code.
3. There were no hands free or cell phones in those days
4. My first Cellphone was about 1998, was big and heavy but at least you could read the screen and find the buttons!
5. No. I'm not that much of an adventurer and I' ve never been lost at sea ! Letters in Bottles are stuff of Boys Own Adventure Stories.
6. With the outbreak of war in 1939 there was hugh advance in technology and Radio became our vital link with the news from the other side of the world.
Daily Newspapers were also essential and were read as part of our school homework.
7. My first and most memorable Telegram was in Feb 1949 when on board the Ferry from Wellington to Lyttleton informing me that I had been accepted for Medical School, having been turned down the previous two years.
8. I was always taught that the correct way was to reply by letter and I have followed this principle for the rest of my life.It is always a thrill to receive a letter of thanks from someone expressing their
pleasure and thanks for what they have been given.
I hope this will be of interest to you and not too much of an essay,
Love
Grandad
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Hi Room 15
It's Mrs Skilton here! Don't tell anyone but I'm 41 - shhhhhhhhh! Thank you all so much for letting me visit your classroom last week and watch you all in action at Inquiry time. What a clever bunch you all are!
Anyway here are my answers as promised :)
1) What modes of communication were around when you were 10 years old?
telephones, television, radio, letters, postcards, telegrams.
2) How did you use this mode of communication to stay connected with people?
Mainly used telephone and wrote letters. Listened to the radio and watched tv for the news.
3) Did you use a landline phone to keep connected with your friends and family when you were 10 years old?
Yes - probably too much if you asked my Mum.
4) When did you get your first cell phone?
2000. Have only had two since then!
5) Have you ever made a message in a bottle?
No, but would love to receive one. How exciting would that be?!
6) What modes of communication did you use to hear about news around the country and the world?
Television and radio.
7) Did you ever receive a telegram? When was it?
I used to receive telegrams from my Dad to wish me luck before big sporting events. It was very exciting to get one!
8) When you received a gift from someone, how did you reply to say thank you?
Usually a thank you letter or a phone call.
Happy Inquiring,
Mrs Skilton.
Adam Davy said, when I was ten in 1969 communication was by letter and for quick communication there were telegrams.
The telephone was only used in emergencies, and that was the one in your home if you were lucky and it had a dial not keys. Sometimes you had to share with other families on a party line. Otherwise you had to walk to the nearest pay phone and put in your 2 cent piece.
I got my first cellphone in 1995, it was cool but txting hadn't been invented and not many had them and they were very expensive
There was only one TV channel when I was ten and it was black and white and that year I watched Neil Armstrong land on the moon.
Wendy = Xav's Mum
1. We had telephones - but they were so expensive to call friends and family overseas. That was hard for Xav's grandparents as they cam from Scotland and missed talking to their families. We had Telegrams to send messages to people.
2. We had a phone but a lot of families walked to the public phonebox to ring people.
3.Yes I rang my friends
4.I had a cell phone for work - that was in 1993 - it was like a brick.
5. No
6. I read the newspaper, watched TV nad the radio.
7. Yes - when i was overseas when i was 17 for my birthday in 1983.
8. I would have written a letter.
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