Have bandwidth...will travel.

 On Friday, January 10, 2002, Pittsylvania County Schools broke new ground by connecting two social studies classrooms.  Students who were 32 miles apart were able to see, hear and talk with one another over our secure network.


Pictured (L to R):  Mr. Brandon Scruggs onsite at Dan River High and Mr. Patrick Touart stationed at Tunstall High.

What does secure mean?  It simply means that no one outside of Pittsylvania County Schools could access the session.

Why would I want to do this?  Imagine the possibilities of sharing the resources of a colleague with a joint lesson plan.  Imagine the benefits of your students interacting with their peers in another school.

Who can participate? This trial run was our first attempt. We were pleased by the success and we'd like to hold another session.  For now, we are limited, however, to connections from our main regional nodes. This means that for the time being we can only set up conferences between the four high schools and the Career & Technical Center.*

Let us hear from you. If you'd have a project idea, please submit them to us.  Thanks for making PCS classrooms come alive!


Pictured (L to R):  Ms. Katie Petrick's class at DRHS participated in a video conference hosted by Mr. Ed Motley's (see inset) class at THS.  The two classes enjoyed a presentation by acclaimed author, John Gilstrap (pictured in monitor).
Pictured: Mrs. Carrie Touart and Rebecca Helton, MS, CCC-SLP of James Madison University. Helton is a clinical supervisor for the speech and language clinic at JMU. 
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*Final approval rests with the schools' principals and with the Office of Instruction.