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Show $30,000 Grant Made ! To Ticaboo Program Receipt of a $30,000 productivity grant for the telelearning program at Ticaboo was announced by Dr. Henry Jolley, Garfield School District superintendent this week. Dr. Jolley noted that 33 out of 106 applicants for Productivity Grants actually were granted funds and that competition for the prized awards was keen. This is the second year such grants have been awarded after the Utah legislature appropriated ap-propriated the fund as an incentive for school districts in the state to increase their productivity by doing more with less money. The grants are awarded for programs which are desigend to make the best use of the taxpayers' money, Dr. Jolley said. Garfield School District had reduced the number of teachers in Ticaboo from five to four for the coming year, but with funds obtained ob-tained from the grant which will be used to acquire equipment for telelearning and train teachers in the skills of the program, the district will actually spend less of its own monies on salaries and increase it s curriculum offerings to students in Ticaboo. A Spanish class will be offered, an IBM "Writing Road to Reading" class, an earth sciences class and a Bridge Number 017007-A is complete. It spans the Sevier River on the old Roller Mill Hill Road down to the Panguitch dump site. The depth of the concrete math class will be made available to grades K-12. Teaching principal Mike Hopkins at Ticaboo will oversee the program at the small school. Dr. Jolley said that IBM has already donated some $60,000 in equipment which includes a satellite dish with seven terminals in Panguitch, five terminals in Escalante and five in Ticaboo. Software for Ticaboo's classes is being provided by IBM. Garfield County School District, Dr. Jolley said, is the smallest place the system is being used and IBM representatives are watching closely to measure its success. All IBM equipment is on loan to the district for as long as it is successfully suc-cessfully used, Dr. Jolley said. "Viewpoint" IBM's annual in-house in-house publication highlights Ticaboo's telelearning program and notes "if we can deliver in Ticaboo, we can deliver anywhere." The district will also use a new laser reader which utilizes a laser disc reader with a laser beam. Dr. Jolley calls it a "new style of textbook" text-book" and predicts it will indeed be the texbrook of the future. The disc is capable of storing some 54,000 pages and can be read with or without a computer, he said. ' , V" ' " ' "' ' I . ' e ': , $ l ifT .'."'-- , , I ,5 ., .. ' r- - - ; " ... ' . -" ' - -" - ' v. ' " V ' ?- "'..... t y . " " ' ' :-r .- . .: ,". '"-'.''- - " ' " f . . " - --:.-"..," . , ' - ' . - ... ' . v .'" ' -. ; . -V , v - - - : " . . w .....i . . . - ' "... ; . . .. ,: . : ... ..... - . . . ... ..... . ; . . piers reinforced with steel is expected to save it from destruction in case of an onslaught of water such as 1984's devestating flood that destroyed its predecessor. |