Taking a Water Break
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These two combines near Provost—and dozens more like it across Alberta and Saskatchewan have been left immobilized during this year’s harvest because of rain. At press time Monday, September 18, these units had been shut down for eight days. But the sun was shining that day as farmers kept looking at weather reports. ©Provost News Photo.
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High Speed School Video Conferencing ‘Great For Kids’
Students and teachers at Provost Public School are getting used to a new high speed interactive learning tool as the fall term gets underway.
This school, says principal Dave Brecht is leading the entire Buffalo Trail Public Schools (BTPS) division in using all new technologies.
The wireless video conferencing system now operating with a high band-width at 24 frames per second—reaching speeds of 100 megabytes per second—between schools allows students from other towns and PPS to take classes from a remote location.
Currently one student is taking Physics 20 from a teacher in Chauvin when she is teaching a regular class there. As well another 15 local students plan to use the system to supplement their studies using the on-line school system that beams signals back and forth with dedicated towers installed by the school division.
Brecht says that next term when Physics 30 will be taught, students from four other schools will hook up, listen and see inside the classroom at PPS while Brad Pylypow, conducts classes. Pylypow says that this is “the way of the future.” Those students at other schools (with a maximum of 20) will become his students. Other local teachers Brock Bartlett, Celeste Matovitch, Colleen Kilkus and Brecht have also been trained to use the system to deliver classroom studies.
There are four large television screens hooked into the system as well as audio and a camera that can follow a teacher around the classroom. A large eight foot screen is now on order to complement the other equipment including a “smart board” where messages can be written and show up instantly on a remote smart board. The message can be automatically saved, faxed, printed out or made into a PDF or different file for further use. Commands such as opening files and saving files can be easily invoked by touching a projected image that looks like a computer screen on the smart board.
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