Colleges Community makes TV an active learning tool
The College Community schools deploy a closed circuit cable system to make video instruction active rather than passive. A $168,500 Title III grant supports 12 channel viewing, 350 tapes, and 22 telephones linking Prairie high with Kirkwood center as teachers script and produce lessons to be requested by students.
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College Community Schools
Robert Bostwick
College Community
Kirkwood Community College
Prairie High School
Kirkwood Center
Prairie
Bostwick
Scott Carlson
Castle Drive
Kirkwood
Demonstrating Technique With Television Use At School
The system demonstrates teaching techniques via television allowing rewatching by absent students. It enables converting film strips to video for easy retrieval and taping programs off the air for later replay. Since starting Jan. 20, 46 programs have been taped and replayed, surpassing expectations with mutual access by Kirkwood.
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Bostwick
Kirkwood
Helicopter Lifts Former Rooster Rock Relay Building
A 30 ton steel relay building once set atop Rooster Rock in Oregon was moved by helicopter. Pacific Bell hauled the structure 100 feet above ground and transported it two miles over hills to a trailer by the Columbia River, avoiding tree damage.
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Rooster Rock State Park
Ore
Rooster Rock Park
Columbia River
Corvallis
Pacific Bell Telephone Co
Chamber Board Sets Five Top Priorities for Cedar Rapids Area
The Cedar Rapids Marion Chamber of Commerce board will discuss five priority areas at Friday noon meeting and lunch at the Chamber headquarters. The list includes a community center airport development industrial economic expansion crime and safety and highways with task forces planned to develop long range plans.
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Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Marionette Theater at Coe Wednesday and Thursday
The Marionette Theater of Peter Arnott performs Greek and French plays at Coe College in Cherry Auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Arnott directs Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in translations, with co-sponsorship by Coe humanities and the Forums and Discussions committee.
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Peter Arnott
Christopher Marlowe
Sophocles
Coe College
Cherry
Coe
National Endowment For the Humanities
Arnott
Oedipus the King
Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
Ipswich
England
University of Wales
Oxford University
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