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I was disappointed for a moment.
But then the visual popped into my head and it wont go away.
My eternal thanks.
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I was disappointed for a moment.
But then the visual popped into my head and it wont go away.
My eternal thanks.
eta.
Coming up to the 100th post
Akhenaten
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Audible Click was wondering about this . . .
From the early 1900's, the education of isolated children across Australia was catered for by the Correspondence Schools in the capital cities of their respective states. Lessons took days and sometimes weeks to reach their destinations and by the time the completed lessons were dispatched to their teachers, marked and returned to the children, months could have elapsed. As these children rarely had an opportunity to visit their teachers at the Correspondence School, the children inevitably completed their entire schooling without ever meeting their teacher or schoolmates.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) began operation in 1928 and within a few years it had established a large radio network across the outback. The network depended largely on a pedal-powered radio invented by Alfred Traeger and he and the founder of the RFDS, Reverend John Flynn, discussed other services that could be made possible using the radio.
The Pedal Radio
1944
Miss Adelaide Miethke, a member of the Council of the Flying Doctor service of SA, suggests the idea of using two way radio to give educational talks to children in the Outback. Discussions between Mr RG Pitts (Director of FDS in Alice Springs) Mr L. Dodd (Assistant supervisor of Education in the NT and headmaster of Alice Springs Higher Primary School) and Miss Adelaide Miethke set in train the beginnings of the School of the Air - the first of its kind in the world.
Miss Adelaide Miethke OBE
1950
After a long wait for special communications equipment, a trial program begins. Teachers at Alice Springs Primary High School volunteer to take radio lessons. A landline is laid from the Flying Doctor base to the Hartley St School. Teachers take turns to present the specially prepared scripts to the outback children with the help of radio staff at the Flying Doctor base.
NOT Home Schooling
1951
On 8th June the School of the Air was officially opened at the Flying Doctor Base. Mr Kissell of Alice Springs Higher Primary school is the leader of the broadcasting team. At first lessons are a one way affair, but soon a question and answer time was added to the end of each broadcast. Sometimes a microphone was taken into one of the classrooms at the school and the Outback children could listen in to specially prepared lessons or dramatisations. Three half-hour sessions are broadcast each week.
HF Radio - introduced in 1951
1956
On the 23rd February 1956, School of the Air at Broken Hill was officially opened on behalf of the Premier, by the then Director-General of Education Dr Harold Wyndham. The school serviced isolated children in Southern Queensland, South Australia and over half of NSW and in the late 1980's had an enrolment of over two hundred.
School of the Air - Broken Hill , New South Wales
1964
School of the Air Queensland was established in 1964. Today, the school is located in the campus of Kalkadoon State High School and has students from Preschool to Year 10. Every student is provided with a mail delivered printed program with accompanying resources. This material is then supplemented by on-air lessons. Each preschool student receives one half-hour lesson per week. Years 1–7 students receive one half-hour on air lesson each day and secondary students receive at least one half-hour lesson per week for each subject in which they are enrolled.
Kids who don't believe in Yowies and still-living Dinosaurs
2010
Just like HF radios replaced pedal radios, new technology is constantly being incorporated into the schools of the air. The Optus Interactive Distance eLearning Initiative had brought the SOA into the digital age. This initiative saw lessons being delivered via an interactive two-way broadband satellite network and covers some of the most remote areas of Australia, including all of the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.
This is where you leave an apple for the teacher. Just pop it in that Replicator over there.
The network comprises a satellite hub in Sydney and five teaching studios in Alice Springs, Darwin, Broken Hill, Dubbo and Port Macquarie. Satellite dishes and computers complete the network with 547 sites across New South Wales and the Northern Territory, including remote homesteads and properties, isolated schools and Indigenous settlements.
Using a video camera and an electronic whiteboard, teachers at the studio sites give lessons by satellite to students on the network who can watch and respond in real-time via a web camera attached to their computer. This provides for much more interaction between students and teachers. As well as providing two-way audio and video, students can email teachers and each other, interact with the whiteboard and answer pop-up questions. They can also hear their classmates and participate in group discussions
Schools of the Air continue to provide education to isolated people, and their role is now extending into adult education. As technology continues to develop, access to information is improving for people in the outback. All your information are belong to us!
More information?
School of the Air
Royal Flying Doctor Service
From the early 1900's, the education of isolated children across Australia was catered for by the Correspondence Schools in the capital cities of their respective states. Lessons took days and sometimes weeks to reach their destinations and by the time the completed lessons were dispatched to their teachers, marked and returned to the children, months could have elapsed. As these children rarely had an opportunity to visit their teachers at the Correspondence School, the children inevitably completed their entire schooling without ever meeting their teacher or schoolmates.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) began operation in 1928 and within a few years it had established a large radio network across the outback. The network depended largely on a pedal-powered radio invented by Alfred Traeger and he and the founder of the RFDS, Reverend John Flynn, discussed other services that could be made possible using the radio.
The Pedal Radio
1944
Miss Adelaide Miethke, a member of the Council of the Flying Doctor service of SA, suggests the idea of using two way radio to give educational talks to children in the Outback. Discussions between Mr RG Pitts (Director of FDS in Alice Springs) Mr L. Dodd (Assistant supervisor of Education in the NT and headmaster of Alice Springs Higher Primary School) and Miss Adelaide Miethke set in train the beginnings of the School of the Air - the first of its kind in the world.
Miss Adelaide Miethke OBE
1950
After a long wait for special communications equipment, a trial program begins. Teachers at Alice Springs Primary High School volunteer to take radio lessons. A landline is laid from the Flying Doctor base to the Hartley St School. Teachers take turns to present the specially prepared scripts to the outback children with the help of radio staff at the Flying Doctor base.
NOT Home Schooling
1951
On 8th June the School of the Air was officially opened at the Flying Doctor Base. Mr Kissell of Alice Springs Higher Primary school is the leader of the broadcasting team. At first lessons are a one way affair, but soon a question and answer time was added to the end of each broadcast. Sometimes a microphone was taken into one of the classrooms at the school and the Outback children could listen in to specially prepared lessons or dramatisations. Three half-hour sessions are broadcast each week.
HF Radio - introduced in 1951
1956
On the 23rd February 1956, School of the Air at Broken Hill was officially opened on behalf of the Premier, by the then Director-General of Education Dr Harold Wyndham. The school serviced isolated children in Southern Queensland, South Australia and over half of NSW and in the late 1980's had an enrolment of over two hundred.
School of the Air - Broken Hill , New South Wales
1964
School of the Air Queensland was established in 1964. Today, the school is located in the campus of Kalkadoon State High School and has students from Preschool to Year 10. Every student is provided with a mail delivered printed program with accompanying resources. This material is then supplemented by on-air lessons. Each preschool student receives one half-hour lesson per week. Years 1–7 students receive one half-hour on air lesson each day and secondary students receive at least one half-hour lesson per week for each subject in which they are enrolled.
Kids who don't believe in Yowies and still-living Dinosaurs
Slow, steady progress by a dedicated team continues . . .
2010
Just like HF radios replaced pedal radios, new technology is constantly being incorporated into the schools of the air. The Optus Interactive Distance eLearning Initiative had brought the SOA into the digital age. This initiative saw lessons being delivered via an interactive two-way broadband satellite network and covers some of the most remote areas of Australia, including all of the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.
This is where you leave an apple for the teacher. Just pop it in that Replicator over there.
The network comprises a satellite hub in Sydney and five teaching studios in Alice Springs, Darwin, Broken Hill, Dubbo and Port Macquarie. Satellite dishes and computers complete the network with 547 sites across New South Wales and the Northern Territory, including remote homesteads and properties, isolated schools and Indigenous settlements.
Using a video camera and an electronic whiteboard, teachers at the studio sites give lessons by satellite to students on the network who can watch and respond in real-time via a web camera attached to their computer. This provides for much more interaction between students and teachers. As well as providing two-way audio and video, students can email teachers and each other, interact with the whiteboard and answer pop-up questions. They can also hear their classmates and participate in group discussions
Schools of the Air continue to provide education to isolated people, and their role is now extending into adult education. As technology continues to develop, access to information is improving for people in the outback. All your information are belong to us!
More information?
School of the Air
Royal Flying Doctor Service
School of the Air - Proudly Made in Australia
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Akhenaten
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I was disappointed for a moment.
But then the visual popped into my head and it won't go away.
My eternal thanks.
I knew you'd be able to imagine it.
For only the 10th time, too.
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Hallo Alfie
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Doh!
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All good, Mate. A timely reminder that I should do something special.
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The gap in the plot
Thanks Akhenaten, that was facinating.
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Off to the comedy club tonight in Melbourne.
Going in by train and stopping and Y & Js for one b4 having a meal.
Don't know who's on, my sister has arranged the outing for 10 of us. Should be fun.
My wife has never met Chloe so I will take her up for an 'artisic evaluation' while I have a purve.
I haven't been on a night out in town for years - and although not the King, or Russell St ends it will be interesting to check out the whack jobs.
Hopefully I get out alive.....
Going in by train and stopping and Y & Js for one b4 having a meal.
Don't know who's on, my sister has arranged the outing for 10 of us. Should be fun.
My wife has never met Chloe so I will take her up for an 'artisic evaluation' while I have a purve.
I haven't been on a night out in town for years - and although not the King, or Russell St ends it will be interesting to check out the whack jobs.
Hopefully I get out alive.....
HawaiiBigSis
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Your School of the Air story is fascinating, Akhenaten!
Akhenaten
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Thanks girls.
Aren't people amazing? Not just Australians, either. Ignorance is dying everywhere.
We're just killing it with a bigger stick than some.
What should I do next? The Royal Flying Doctor Service might be a logical progression?
Akhenaten
Heretic Pharaoh
Off to the comedy club tonight in Melbourne.
Going in by train and stopping and Y & Js for one b4 having a meal.
Don't know who's on, my sister has arranged the outing for 10 of us. Should be fun.
My wife has never met Chloe so I will take her up for an 'artisic evaluation' while I have a purve.
I haven't been on a night out in town for years - and although not the King, or Russell St ends it will be interesting to check out the whack jobs.
Hopefully I get out alive.....
Is the Comedy Club in Collins Street? I recall a funny-looking place in Victoria Parade where they have some kind of comedy review going too, but I think that's Dracula's or some such.
We've always avoided King Street after dark, but Russell Street is a lot of fun in the brightly lit parts. There are some fabulous no-name eateries, and almost as many 'sights' to see as there are in Barkly Street, St K.
Sydney Road where it runs through Coburg/Beirut/Brunswick is prolly our favourite bit of the city for a fun night out.
Say Hi! to Chloe and the Missus for me. I'd post her picture (Chloe's
), but it would prolly break the naughty pictures rule. I'm not too sure how that applies to artworks. I'll PM Da Boss and ask for a ruling.Have a good one, Cobber.
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I can recall back in the 60's when I was 7 - I was going to school in Sydney and we had some kind of hook up with one of the schools of the air. I dont remember much about why we did it or anything except we had to learn a song. As a class we had to sing for the other boys and girls listening on their radios. I have a vague memory other schools were involved, but cant say for sure
The Kookabura song
The Kookabura song
Kookaburra Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Leave some gums for me
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Leave some gums for me
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!
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Akhenaten
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Other way around, Cobber. Acca Dacca are still the same; it's the establishment that's folded.
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Other way around, Cobber. Acca Dacca are still the same; it's the establishment that's folded.
LOL - but thats no fun
It is actually amazing just how popular the band is here in the States. Not just a popular Australian band, but one of the most popular full stop over the last 20 years or so
Akhenaten
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I must admit, I was surprised when I heard about the Grammy.
I don't normally take much notice of industry award wank-o-ramas, but beating Metallica and Linkin Park for the award is no mean feat, and speaks pretty well to how popular they must be.
I wish Bon Scott could have been part of it, the silly sausage.
I don't normally take much notice of industry award wank-o-ramas, but beating Metallica and Linkin Park for the award is no mean feat, and speaks pretty well to how popular they must be.
I wish Bon Scott could have been part of it, the silly sausage.
Akhenaten
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I have no idea why I started this thread in the neo-nazi and holocaust deniers sub-forum.
I quit.
I quit.