HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-04-13, Page 17Jamie Johns, fr, and Alyza Tarmohamed, grade 4 students
at Exeter Public School, use the computer like a book to leam
about inventions, one of the multi -media functions of the new
Linkway Program.
OPP looking
for leads in
thefts
EXETER - The OPP are looking
for leads into a break-in into a Hen-
sall Co -Op truck parked at the Co -
Op lot last Monday.
Police say unknown suspects
pried open the drivers window to
steal a black, Realistic CB radio
from the truck.
The OPP are also investigating
damage to a vehicle parked in Hen-
sall the same day. Between 1:30
p.m. and 4:30 p.m. a vehicle parked
in front of 90 King Street was side-
swiped by an unknown vehicle that
left the scene.
On Saturday, the owner of a barn
at part lot 8 on the north boundary
of Stephen Township discovered it
had been broken into. Stolen was a
large amount of firewood, but po-
lice acknowledge this theft could
have taken place over the past three
weeks.
Anyone with information about
thesecriizres can contact police at
2 ,i10p) �1tt.iing business hours.
Fre OPP are also reminding mo-
torists that the local deer population
is more active at this time of year.
Several car/deer collisions have
been investigated by police lately,
the latest one on Sunday in which
duce duct I.IWJing Highway 333
west of Concession 4-5 were hit by
a vehicle. All three deer were
killed.
Stephen
renews
support for
Playhouse
CREDITON - The Huron Coun-
try Playhouse continues to get sup-
port from Stephen Township Coun-
cil.
Council last Tuesday confirmed
it will renew its $500 annual grant
to the Playhouse, and top it up with
an additional $1,500 to help with
the $4 million -plus project to reno-
vate the theatre.
Council also agreed to give the
Playhouse dinner auction commit-
tee a copy of the "Stephen 150
Years" sesquicentennial print for
he upcoming auction.
Shuffleboard
Hensall
April 5
6 game winners
Hazel McEwan
Dave Woodward
Howard Johns
Olga Chipchase
Lloyd Lovell
Hugh McKay
Ethel McMurtrie
555
538
528
485
482
481
453
Duplicate
Bridge
First
Edith Bowen, John Brintnell
Second
Dorothy Linton, Marshal
Dearing
Third
Nancy Thomas, Betty Hoyle
Wednesday nights, 7t30 pm.
Exeter Legion Hall
COMMLINJTY
Computers are `opening up the
world' for Exeter students
Times -Advocate, April 13, 1994 rage 17
By Amy Nellands
Special to the T -A
EXETER - Computers are linking Exeter Pub-
lic School students with the world.
The school received a CD -Rom package from
Prague, Czech Republic, through InterNET on
Linkway.
InterNET links the "information super high-
way", said Mark Rinaldi Ross, a grade four
teacher at Exeter Public School. "You can reach
any information system throughout the world."
Computers are hooked up to modems and are
used like telephones. The public school is
hooked up with the University of Western Onta-
rio who is hooked up with the University of Wa-
terloo who is hooked up to Canada's main one
in Ottawa.
InterNET catalogues information. It has an in-
dex which one can look up and receive that in-
formation within seconds from around the
world. If a student is doing a project on Germa-
ny, he or she could link up with a school in Ger-
many and receive the information first hand, he
said.
InterNET also allows students to send elec-
tronic mail (E-mail). They can write back and afraid of computers, they've grown up with
forth with students from all over the world and them. Change is hard for some people who are
learn about different cultures. set in their ways. Computers open up so many
"It won't replace books," said Rinaldi Ross. possibilities."
"Maybe just topical books." A whole set of en- The multi -media response to the Linkway pro-
cyclopedias can be put onto a single compact gram can be used in many different ways. It can
disc. be used as a word processor or it can have pic-
"There will always be the need for book and tures loaded into it which appear on the screen.
teacher environments." It can capture video and produce sound.
Teachers will always be needed in the class- With budget cuts, it is hard to get the hardware
room, he said. Computers help teachers to teach into the classrooms, he said.
students how to read, do math, and how to do re- "We've had different fundraisers and the Par -
search, among many other things. ents Association has been helpful."
The Linkway program is an educational prod- They have also received funds from the Direc-
uct from IBM. Rinaldi Ross said that it is a very tor's Incentive Fund awarded to them from Paul
versatile program. Over the summer they are go- Carroll, director of the Huron County Board of
ing to implement sound into the system. Education. Dave Bieman, computer consultant
"It will be a big help in the classroom," he from the board office brought the work being
said. done on the program to Carroll's attention and it
It is a "great program" for students with learn- fit his criteria for the board's motto, "Opening
ing disabilties and for students why are begin- Up the World".
ning to read, he said. The students hear the voice Linkway will open up the world to these
reading the story and they can follow along with young students.
the words and see how they are pronounced. "It is limitless where you can go with it," said
"Kids get excited with technology. They aren't Rinaldi Ross.
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