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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-30, Page 19These four senior students will be modelling their completed projects at the Wednesday afternoon fashion show, Mrs. Marilyn Bruinsma helps adjust a hem for Dianne Zehr, while Martha Kneale, Diane Neevel and Beth Snell look on. The attire worn by the girls in the photo was completed by them in the home economics course. Greatest training aid since the blackboard Busily completing projects prior to Wednesday afternoon's fashion show to be held in conjunction with open house are Martha Kneale, Diane Neevel and Linda Boerne. Beth Snell working on one of the many sewing machines found in the department. Preparation of meals is one of the popular features of the home economics course — when the results are as anticipated anyway. Shown preparing a French meal are Susan Gill, Shirley Thiel and Kathy Cann. The department has a full range of appliances and utensils for food preparation and serving. m m x m 3 e textile class helps future consumer BY KEN BRYDGES It has been said that nearly 75% of all knowledge we have stored in our brain got there by way of our eyes. The bal- ance we get by ear. Possibly this is where the expres- sion ,ia picture is worth a thousand words" originated. With this in mind a new section, the AUDIO (Sound) VISUAL (sight) Department, wa s added to South Huron High last January. Its main purpose is to assist the teacher i n making better usage of training aids pre- sently on hand and keeping this equipment serviceable. Following is a list of just a few aids that are used daily; —Overhead Projec- tors, Slide and Film Strip Projectors, 16 mm. and 8 mm. Projectors, Record Players, Tape Recorders etc. Possibly the most used teacher training aid at pre- sent is the Overhead Pro- jector. It came into use dur- ing World War II in the military class room and proved a tremendous help to instructors weary with long hours standing at a blackboard. Only in the past few years has it been accept- ed by our classroom teacher. Using the overhead pro- jector the teacher is always facing the students as he writes (or places a pre- made drawing) on a piece of clear plastic in his ordinary handwriting. This is bril- liantly projected on a screen (or light colored wall) for all students to see as it is en- larged 3 to 5 times the or- iginal size. The class room does not need to be darkened when us- ing the overhead projector -- even a well illimunated class room does not affect the picture quality. With• many teachers the black- board now gets little use since the more efficient and easier to use Overhead Pro- jector was introduced to them. Educational Television (ETV) is the newest (and most powerful) training aid yet given to the teacher. The Ontario Department of Education is behind ETV in a big way. They have a branch making video tapes for tele- cast to schools by the CBC and CTV networks. These are carried every morning (m o s t Saturdays included) and are directed t o all grades, Junior and Senior. The best instructors in a particular field will spend days (sometimes weeks) preparing a 30 to 40 min. telecast. The best way to get difficult phases of cer- tain subjects across to stu- dents are carefully con- sidered. No one teacher working on his own could hope for the thoroughness of detail that goes into these programs. Time consuming experi- ments that might take an hour or more of class room time are explained and carried out in minutes on the Tele- vision screen. This leaves the teacher with more time to help his students. Noted educators have stated that Educational Television is the greatest training aid since the invention of the black- board. South Huron District High School expects to open up in September with equipment that will put on magnetic tape the sight and sound of Edu- cational Television, Tapes can be recorded, stored and played back to any class room TV receiver from one central position to any other room, at the exact time it will best fit into the teacher's lesson program. When finished the same BY MRS. MARGARET H. TOUTS. Clothing Teacher APProxiMately 200 stli- dents. are enrolled in home economics courses at South Huron District High School. Half a year the grade nine, ten and eleven classes is a study of clothing and textiles. The clothing room is equipped with the newest sewing machines — Bernina and Husquvarna -- one ma- chine for every student, Be- cause of additions to last year's equipment, the other facilities are also adequate. The grade nine course is an introduction to clothing and textiles -- often the girls have had no previous experi- ence in working with fab- rics. The course emphasizes basic construction t he fashioning of a flat piece of cloth into a shaped garment. Despite struggles with inside -out sleeves and crooked zippers, the girls result with pajamas, night- gowns, dusters, o r jump- suits. A major part of the course is a study of cotton — the manufacture of the cloth, its many varieties, and the best uses to which it can be put. In the grade ten course, the girls extend their study of fabrics to wool and wool blends. Students who take the course before Christmas ap- ply this new knowledge to the construction of wool dress- es. Those •taking the course after Christmas make spring tape can be used over and over again to tape a new Educational Telecast that will give every student (even those in the last row) a close up front seat at that complicated science experi- ment or it will hold the same program for future use if re- quired. dresses of cotton or sYntlie- tics. This year more advanced techniques are learned — petting in sleeves and apply- ing cellars. An irnPortant part of this year's study is improving pressing tech- niques to give garments a professional look, In grade eleven another aspect of clothing is em- phasized. The Students learn to make and buy clothes which will best suit them. They study principles of good design as they apply to cloth- ing, then select Patterns and materials considering line, colour and texture which will be most becoming to them, After careful selection of their patterns, they sew dresses, suits or slacks opt, fits. While sewing their gar- "TientS thPY learn neW piques proper fitting, ap- plying different types of collars, bound buttenheles, and sewing with lining. A highlight of th i is year's, course was a visit to the various liespeler Mills, It is hoped th4t such 4 trip will become an annual event. Clothing and textile cours- es are much more than sewing courses, They aim at teaching the students to become intelligent consum- ers to buy only clothes which are becoming and well-made and to use fab- rics suited to their intend- ed purposes. TH IS PAGE SPONSORED BY Thames Industrial Supplies LONDON, ONTARIO MACHINE TOOLS &TECHNICAL AIDS Dinney Furniture EXETER, ONTARIO BERNINA SEWING MACHINE CENTER