ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, February 6, 1997 TAG: 9702060022
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-10 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: DUBLIN
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
A program outlining the blueprint for connecting educational institutions in Southwest Virginia to the Internet will be held in Edwards Hall at New River Community College starting with registration at 8:30 a.m. March 4.
Speakers during the morning session will include Gary Warren, with Unified Research Laboratories, on a cost-effective computer infrastructure for K-12 schools; Giles County Superintendent Robert McCracken on Internet connections in rural areas; Box Dix of NetAccess of Virginia on local Internet service provider options; John Wenrich, network director at the Southwest Virginia Governor's School, on the Internet style of learning; and Norm Dodl of Virginia Tech on enhancing curriculum integration through Internet access.
After lunch, participants will move to the Governor's School on the Pulaski County High School campus for optional sessions.
One of these will be a demonstration of wireless Internet-working by Jim Sandidge, information systems manager for the county school system, and Jonathan Steinman, with Solectek, which is installing a wireless network in Pulaski County.
Gary Warren, with Unified Research Laboratories, and Marianne Jolley, with Apple Computer, will also speak on uses of computers in schools.
The program is sponsored by the Governor's School and New River Community College, and was announced at the monthly meeting of the Governor's School board Tuesday.
Wenrich reported to the board that surveys for wireless computer network connections have been completed in Giles and Wythe counties, and will soon be finished in Bland and Carroll counties. Actual implementation of the network will be expensive, but Wenrich said it would pay for itself in a matter of years by what it would save in telephone line costs.
Margaret "Pat" Duncan, the Governor's School director, has been named to serve on a panel for developing a Governor's School in New Hampshire. She has also been nominated to serve on the board of directors for the National Consortium for Specialized Schools of Science, Mathematics and Technology but made no decision, because of the travel costs involved to the consortium's four meetings each year, until the board considered the matter.
"I think it would be valuable, as a board, to have you serve on that," said Carroll County representative Patricia Sebens. The board then voted permission for her to accept the nomination and appointment, if she is chosen.
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