How Prescott Behaves

A state program called Positive Behavior Supports is working at this downtown school.

A Film by Paula Baumann and Gary Olsen

his film describes the progress being made at Prescott Early Childhood Center on Positive Behavior Supports, a comprehensive program that has been tested now in eight Iowa schools. Now you can see first hand how it works, how it has made Prescott into a save haven for learning.

The film was the idea of Prescott school counselor, Paul Bauman, collaborating with Gary Olsen, media specialist for the school district. It took a little over a month to complete once filming started. It's just 29 minutes long, and is designed for educators, para-professionals, and especially parents to raise everyone's awareness of what is expected and just how the program works student by student, teacher by teacher, parent by parent.

Video Control Panel
For connections on anything but a high-speed network, like a phone modem. This is for DSL or higher-speed networks. Larger video, better audio.
This is a streaming media file for cable modems and high-speed networks (like Mediacom). This is ideal for the school district network. Click on this one if you are in one of our school buildings. This movie is the best quality but represents the largest file size. It is very suitable for presentations to large groups if your computer has a large monitor or is connected to a projector. You can easily enlarge the movie screen size in RealPlayer. For best results for display purposes, you may want to download the non-streaming file version at right.

This is a non-streaming file if you just wish to download the largest movie file for your collection. Merely right click on the button above and select "Save Link Target As..." This copies the movie to a spot you designate on your hard drive or network server. Once you have this file, you can make your own CD copy, and it is perfectly suitable for large group presentations. But you need RealPlayer software (free and available on this page) to play it.

If you need free software to play multimedia on this website look at the bottom right column for the link to free software.

 
Instructions For Those Outside of Our School Network (The General Public)

We are now providing a choice of RealPlayer applications for you to download and install on your computer to enable you to view the video and audio files. One is RealPlayer8 and the other is RealOne Player, which is an excellent player with many new features. It's easy to install, so just follow the on-screen steps. You will be required to register with Real.com, but these are free software applications (there are versions you can pay for if you choose, but they are not necessary for basic viewing and listening).

Which Player is Best for Me?

Of the two types of free players available, RealPlayer 8 is the traditional player that is free and will work beautifully to access Web based multimedia files from our site. There is also a new player available, which is also free, called RealONE. Either player will probably work for your operating system. If your system is older (Windows 95, NT), however, you may want to use the RealPlayer 8 software. If you are running a newer, faster system like Windows 98, ME, XP, or 2000, go for the RealOne player.

Macintosh Owners:

You can get a RealPlayer for Macintosh, Visit Real.com to download their free player options. Remember, look for the FREE players. They are sometimes difficult to find on their Web site.

Oh, and one more thing... sometimes when you click on a sound or video file in our Web site with the RealPlayer installed, you get a little commercial window that pops up on your desktop. It's annoying, but a small price to pay for the privilege of having the free RealPlayer on your system. Just click it off, and it will disappear.

Instructions For Machines on our School Network (Teachers and Staff)
We are recommending (and IT is supporting) RealPlayer8. This is for ALL computers on our network (in all school and administration buildings throughout the District). This includes all Windows 2000 machines. Click here to get the free player from our network server. If you do not have administrative priveleges, please call your building media specialist to help you.

 

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