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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Val Verde Unified School District Continues Reinventing Schools Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:24:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 85 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272of6$h2u@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: darrell_lynn@valverde.edu For further information please contact: Darrell Lynn, Director Information Technology 975 E. Morgan Road Perris, CA 92571 909-940-6100 ext. 239 Email: darrell_lynn@valverde.edu NeXTmail is supported VAL VERDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CONTINUES REINVENTING SCHOOLS Val Verde prepares to open schools on Monday with three additional revolutionary learning and management environments. Rancho Verde High School, El Potrero Elementary, and Tomas Rivera Middle School open with powerful NeXT workstations running NeXTstep on every teacher, administrator, and support staff desktops. Each is connected to the District's fast ethernet network of fiber optic and the Internet. All users have the ability to log onto the network from any workstation within the District. Rancho Verde High School currently has 83 workstations on all teacher desktops connected over a fiber optic backbone. The site has installed over 4.5 miles of fiber and copper cable. This advanced technology environment is coupled with the overall design of the campus as it won the state architectural school design award last year. Currently students use Mathematic notebooks at all mathematic levels to produce highly motivated students interested in advanced college math study. El Potrero Elementary opens with a NeXT workstation on every teacher desktop which students have constant access to. Each classroom has capabilities for a workstation on every desktop, as do all schools with the network to the classroom. As new systems are purchased all that is needed is for the workstation to be configured and added to the network. El Potrero, as with all campuses in the District, has a fiber optic backbone with fiber also brought into each classroom, administrative offices and library. Tomas Rivera Middle School is newly constructed and draws upon the same rich technology design as other District sites. It too has a NeXT workstation on every teacher desktop running NeXTstep. The library has numerous workstations for students to use during class and independent visits. The Interpersonal Computing Lab has 35 Epson PCs running NeXTstep. Students will be using the Internet and Local Digital Libraries to promote higher order thinking and research and collaboration within several disciplines. Val Verde Unified School District has twelve sites all connected together in one seamless WAN. The last three sites will have their classrooms connected during this school year. Several agencies have commented that the infrastructure in the District is as well thought out and constructed to rival any corporate or federal installation. The network conforms to IEEE 802.3 specifications and all components are running SNMP for network administration. The District is reinventing how it does business by eliminating paper memorandums, work-orders, purchase-orders, etc and instead use the network to improve upon these traditional methods. Students are using these tools to communicate with their teachers, adminstrators for the purpose of developing group collaboration & communication skills. Students are working with other students across the District in cross-age tutoring and research & development. Additionally students are engaged in collaborative learning projects with students as far way as Japan and New Zealand. Custom applications will be developed by the students using Interface Builder and C programming language. The applications will not only improve the students understanding of how to design and build applications but provide additional applications for others to use and extend into their own learning environment. Val Verde Unified is located in Riverside County California. The Superintendent is Dr. Leona Williams. There are approximately 7600 students attending the District's schools. For further information please contact: Darrell Lynn, Director Information Technology 975 E. Morgan Road Perris, CA 92571 909-940-6100 ext. 239 darrell_lynn@valverde.edu NeXTmail is supported
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