Friday, August 19, 2016

19 August - Katherine School of the Air and Maintenance Day

19 August 2016 – 183 517
Katherine School of the Air and Maintenance Day
Some more investigation of the car battery this morning showed that it still does not seem to be holding its charge, despite all the driving yesterday.  I made a call to Autobarn in Nambour where I had the battery installed and they were very helpful (Aaron) and told us where in Katherine we would be able to have the warranty attended to. Drew phoned them and headed there this morning and had the battery replaced under warranty.  Next, to test whether the Waeco works fine and it was just the battery??.  This morning we went to a ‘Behind the Scenes’ tour at Katherine School of the Air – The Biggest Classroom in the World. https://www.ksa.nt.edu.au/ It covers almost one million square kilometres, covering the northern half of the N.T. plus some overseas N.T. residents and some students in W.A. but near the border of N.T..  The technology used for this is best described as “skype on steroids” as one teacher put it, it allows all the kids in the class and the teacher to see and hear each other and talk directly to each other and uses green wall technology to allow backgrounds and foregrounds to be inserted.   We then got to watch a recording of a lesson, which was quite interesting.  The afternoon was spent on maintenance; groceries, car washing, planning for the next few days, updating blog etc.  Yesterday there was a little cloud and some humidity, today there was cloud all day and the humidity is definitely starting to climb – maybe the build-up is commencing early.

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