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BROWNING — Schools here will split nearly $500,000 from a distance-learning grant
to ask questions and learn along with their far-away peers in real time.
The Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program provided
$498,746 for BrowningHigh School, K.W. Bergen School, Vina Chattin School, Napi
School, Browning Middle School and BabbElementary School.
"It's a grant to connect us with other schools, universities and Blackfeet Community
College so we will be able to do videoconferencing," said Ron Tucker, institutional
technology facilitator for the schools, in the Glacier Reporter. "For example, if we have a
lack of a class, say German, but Belgrade has it, then we can connect with them and sit
with their class virtually, and they see our students."
The grant also will pay for each building to receive a mobile unit containing a 42-inch,
high-tech television, Tucker said.
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