Japanese via Virtual School

Music via Virtual School

Following the success of REACT at the Schools of the Air, the NT Governement decided to expand its use into mainstream urban and regional schools under its @Schools project.

It can be difficult to attract teachers to live and work in remote and regional locations and even harder to retain them.  As a result, students living in these locations are often limited to the subjects that they have access to.  Not all schools have teachers in advanced or specialist subjects such as the sciences, maths, music and languages.  However, many students would like or need to study these subjects.

With the deployment of REACT into major schools such as Darwin High School, teachers can now deliver lessons to their in-house students whilst at the same time 'virtually' deliver the same lesson to any number of students living in any number of remote locations.

REACT provides all the tools a teacher needs to be able to engage students in the real-time classroom.  High quality integrated audio and video enable the teacher and the students to all be able to see each other and talk to each other just as in a regular classroom.  There is no limit to the number of audios and videos that can run simultaneously and no restriction on the video sizing.  This permits lively debates and discussions and allows the teacher to enlarge any student's video to full-screen as required, without loss of quality.  In addition, audio is lip-synched which is advantageous particularly when teaching languages.

Currently, music, languages and philosophy are being taught in this way to students in many and varied locations throughout the NT.