A8: me CASTLEGAR NEWS; February 11, 1981

Those Apples are for students

“The ‘following article’ was
taken from the January issue
of the B.C. ministry. of
education magazine, “Edu:
cation Today": ° ;

By RIK HALL .

It started with a lock-out of
non-teaching staff in our dis-
trict. That was about two
years ago and it meant we

had students only in’ the.

mornings. At the same time

the high school across the .

road obtained a DEC PDP-
1103 minicomputer.

evenings, learning-to operate
and program a computer.
(Computers gre very habit-
forming and my wife spent
much time walting “just a
second longer" while I got
some “bug” or other out of a
program.) . ¥
The idea came for trying to
geta mitch less costly micro-
computer, Into the district
when ‘Trail (20 kilometres
south) bought an Apple IT

plus for the secondary schoo!
its

to

knew wo had to get one.
Then came the word of the
ministry of education . pilot .
project. We filled out an
enornious application form in
which wefasked for 10 Apple -
lis. 1 went’ to a -hurridd:-
workshop in Vancouver and,

‘lo and behold, ‘I*was co-

ordinator of the microcom-

puting program for School .

District No. 9, Castlegar. |
My board gave me great

support, allowing me to at-’

John of Trail

Put the two her, add
‘a far-sighted principal, and
you found me, every after-

noon and well into many.

-brought it to an in-service we

were having ‘and after. ob-
serving for a few minutes. I

tenda k crash course
e a.m, to 10 p.m. daily) at the
University of Victoria in late ~
August. Many ‘fantastic con-
tacts were made at UVic. It’s
one thing to vo-orditiate an
existing-" program. but. to.
start at square one is differ: -
ent, . *
Gordon Gray of 8.J. ‘willis,
Junior Secondary School in
Victoria was.one such contact
who provided 'me'with much

_ of my present material. He
- continues to help as do others

throughout B.C.

We have 10 Apple TI plus
systems complete. with disc.
drives and.a printer, IDS 440. |
Five are situated at Twin’
Rivers Elementary School

(Grades 8-7) and five are at,a;

junior - secondary (Grades

Mi: 7-9), Here at Twin Rivers we

GETTING SOME HANDS-ON PRACTICE with one of Twin
i

Rivers y Sch

@ local

. teach usage,

is

student, working under:the watchful eye of Rick Hall,
the school's i
Rivers students in "Grades three to-seven are tought’
computor literacy by Hall, while Grant DeWolf runs. a

use our Apples for. teaching.
computer Mteracy, to ‘all
grades, :

-Twice a week, | ‘hall § a class
comes to the “computer
room” (a small conference
room off the library) where I

40- ‘minute perlods with the
computers: Then we rotate
‘and: pick: up three more
classes.-The board has al-
lowed me 80 per. cent of my
time to'do these classes.
One afternoon a week I go

to the junior secondary. :

where the head of the math-
‘ematics - department is. run-
ning. a similar (albeit higher
level) program, for ali the
math students, who get an
eight-period, course on. his-
tory; computer - usage, pro-
. gramming: and * job . oppor:
tunities:. Two of these are
lecture sessions while six are
chands-on_in. the “computer
lab" (a few ‘metres of prep-
“aration table between two
“sctence rooms}.

I supervise the see ‘hour .
computer club when Iam |”

‘there’ on ‘Wednesdays, and
Grant DeWolf, who is run-
ning the program, takes care
. of the other. four noon-hours.

Our own ‘computer club at
‘twin Rivers Is also open five

noon hours a week. When I'm ~

not there,: one of my two very
able. “systems managers,”
-both 18: years old, runs the
~elub.’ ‘Motivation is very high,
and with the.threat of being
‘banned from the club for a
period of . time, Behavior is
oxtromely good! *  .°*

“In addition: to using the
system for computer literacy,
the learning assistance teach-

- er uses the Apples for spell-
ing drills, | word recognition
an

and

the machine and basic pro-

* gramming. The higher the

grade, the more detailed the
instruction. The other half of -
the class stays with the class
teacher for enrichment -or
remedial work. It's great to ...
be able to work with a class"
of 18 to 15 students, both for ©
the classroom teacher and

more advanced program at at Kinnaird Junior Secondary

School.

me, ony tee
Each class gets about eight

wteatss 2 & 2
- Also in the offing is use of

the ‘systems by the enrich- J

ment specialists for other
alementary students who
- could be bussed to Twin

Rivers Elementary “ School. .

Special tutorial programs,
music theory and writing of.
music, and higher program-
ming techniques are planned
for these students.

including, Packa ; ni
‘to send, As well, we have Fun:Packs:and Cut-Out Books for \,

irls to'se ackages ‘tor Boys

xchanging Valentines swith school mates.

at

Plsh To
“for Valentine’ = alentine’ s Party?

,-Valentine.Cups -
"Valentine Plates -

Nalentine Napkins.

Arrow.
held last weekend at HSS is
any indication,

UDhe .' tournament’ was: a
success in every way: every-
thing was id:

‘ran without any: * problems;
“fan support was good with

large ‘enthusiastic crowd ‘on
hand. for ‘the: championship
game; and the gam
exciting and: well-p!

: The tournament,

fre
before making her third’s
and moving the locals in fr
3020,

- Strong Matas, outs

“ing defensive rebounding. i.
Geil Chevitsne ee two.
‘driving’: lay-u

‘Liga
Koochin thwarted KY “deter-
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