Content about Oklahoma

October 10, 2002

(One of six sidebars to Oct. 2002 feature article "Teaching with technology.")

Rural school districts often share a particular challenge – to provide students a wider variety of subjects with minimal staff resources.

Howe Public Schools in rural southeast Oklahoma took on this challenge – virtually – by installing a Tandberg Educator videoconferencing system.

June 1, 2002

"Fiberoptics" and "light" were the themes designer Roseanne Bell used in the Williams Communications Technology Center in Tulsa.

"Fiberoptics" and "light" were the themes designer Roseanne Bell used in the Williams Communications Technology Center in Tulsa.

June 1, 2002

"Fiberoptics" and "light" were the themes designer Roseanne Bell used in the Williams Communications Technology Center in Tulsa.

"Fiberoptics" and "light" were the themes designer Roseanne Bell used in the Williams Communications Technology Center in Tulsa. The hallway (above) is decorated with stretched fabric illuminated by a changing palette of colored light. Visitors can view the Network Operations Center (top left) from the vantage point of a fiberglass bridge (bottom right) that stretches from one end of the center to the other.