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1979 - 1980

Bob McLean
1979 - 1980
Bob McLean organized the first computer events at OISE.
These events, called Educational Computer Fairs, were forerunners of the present day ECOO Conferences.
The ECOO Organizing Committee was formed - the committee included Irvin Rubincam, Al Anderson, Wayne Jonston, Alan Lott, Bill Maki and Richard Watson.
Bob McLean was the Newsletter editor.
There were 12 members.
1981-1982

Irvin Rubincam
1982-1983

Bob Drake
1980
Membership had grown to 400
1981
Membership had grown to 1262.
1982
First special interest group was formed: SIGEE.
The SIG was later renamed SIG-Elem, and now it goes by the name of ECOO-Elementary.
1983-1984

Jo Ann Wilton
1984-1985

Alan Winarski
1983
Ecoo starts an office and becomes a corporation.
Wayne Johnston designs its constitution and bylaws.
1983
Second special interest group was created: SIG-LOGO.
1984
The Newsletter is renamed The Output.
1985-1986

Gord McKye
1986-1987

Sue Moont
1985
SIG-CS was formed and held their first mini-conference on Nov 16, 1985 in Waterloo.
The first ECOO programming contest was held that same year, with 22 teams participating.
Doug McDougal was their president.
Sixth Annual ECOO Conference was held jointly with AEDS.
1987-1988

Colin Harvey
1988-1989

Flick Douglas
1989
ECOO creates the FOCIS report.
1989-1990

Nancy Murray
1990-1991

Ron Millar
1991
ECOO and ISTE hold a joint Conference.
ISTE is the International Society for Technology in Education.
1991-1992

Doug McDougal
1992-1993

Sandy Mitchel
1996
ECOO starts a web presence, hosted at www.enoreo.on.ca.
1993-1995

Paul Ryan
1995-1997

Chris Stephenson
1997
SIG-TEL organizes the first annual Home-Page contest, with prizes totalling $1900
SIG-CIEL becomes ECOO's fourth special interest group.
ECOO conference tops 2000 delegates.
1997-1999

Marilynn Pascale
1999

Logo Update
1999
The Quarterly Output is published online as well as on paper.
The ECOO website moves to www.ecoo.org
ECOO hosts the Secondary Course Deliverables in a shared project with OTF and MET.
Restructuring of ECOO includes changes to the bylaws to reduce the size of the Board.
ECOO gets a new image and a new logo
1999-2001

Bruce Weaver
2001-2002

Lucy Voytek
2000
SIG CS hold their first Webspinners Contest.
2001
SIG CS expanded the annual ECOO programming contest to three levels:
Boardwide (in March), Regional (in April) and Final (aduring or near the ECOO conference).
SIG Ciel holds their own online conference on Yahoo.
2002-2003

Pat Bland
2003-2004

Angela Marsh
2002
OUTPUT became an online publication.
SIG Elem offers their members an online discussion conference in 2003.
2004
Registration for the 25th Annual ECOO Conference was offered online.
2004-2005

Kate Vanderhorst

 
2005
ECOO participates in C.O.D.E. "Think Literacy" curriculum project.
ECOO becomes an affiliate of ISTE.
2006-2008

Andreas Ghabrial
  2007
Conference moves to fall timeframe (November)
ECOO social network launches (via Commun-IT.org)

2008
Conference moves to new location (Sheraton, Markham)

 

 
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