Kathi-Toth Switzer is a Literacy Intake and Assessment worker ready to sit down with you and make those plans. Check it out any time by calling her at 542-7369, extension 240. Seems, telecommunications and the internet remove geographic barriers to business, making northern Frontenac County a viable location for new ventures. It's the new Ontario Centre for Advanced Technology in Learning, together with TV Ontario, and they are heading for the millennium with tech-based learning for students. Programs are beamed via satellite from TVO studios o schools.
Students ask questions of the teacher and discuss ideas across hundreds of miles.
It's difficult to imagine how big this country really is when you are a young student looking at a map of Canada in an atlas. But, when you can check out the size of the map painted on the school yard pavement, stand your whole class in the province of Ontario and have room left over, you get the picture. Students have a blast discovering where the Northwest Territories are and how far it is form Kingston to Thunder Bay when they can do it on a learning tool like this. Large Canada maps are painted on cement by members of the local Nortel Pioneers as just one volunteer project involving education. It encourages youngsters to learn to love reading at an early age and parents to see the value of reading to their children every day.