Rocky Mountain PBS Showcases Datacasting Projects

Rocky Mountain PBS has been very active partnering with its community to deliver instruction and training through datacasting. Rocky Mountain PBS a statewide network with stations in Denver, Pueblo, Grand Junction and Durango, and therefore has the unique ability to provide broadcasts and datacasts to the whole state. No other television station in Colorado has that capability. Rocky Mountain PBS is presently working with the Museum of Nature and Science , the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, the Colorado Department of Adult Education, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and various hospitals and colleges to install datacasting equipment and provide datacasting services. Each project is described briefly below:

Museum of Nature and Science

Rocky Mountain PBS is providing datacasting from remote sites of interest. A museum expert delivers instruction and "show and tell" to area grade schools. Rocky Mountain PBS' first production involved a scientist located at the Denver Basin project showing the dinosaur bones found in Colorado and discussing dinosaurs and other aspects of archeology.

Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

Rocky Mountain PBS is installing datacast receive equipment in various workforce one-stop centers and providing capability in the Office of Workforce development for the director to send training and other information to workforce centers. Eventually they hope to provide datacasting to all 70 sites around the state.

Colorado Department of Adult Education and Family Literacy

Rocky Mountain PBS is installing datacast receive equipment in 12 Adult Education centers in the greater Denver metropolitan area, Boulder and Ft. Collins so that the department can delivery training and other materials to their centers.

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

There is a critical shortage of nurses in Colorado as in the rest of the country, and the Health Sciences Center has received funding to build a patient-simulator lab at its campus for the purpose of training nurse educators on how to use patient-simulators. These simulators provide students with more in-depth and faster training in patient care. Rocky Mountain PBS will install a microwave transmitter at the lab, and datacast receivers at various hospitals and colleges around Colorado who offer nurse education and have patient-simulators, for the purpose of distance training to faculty who cannot always travel to the Health Sciences Center. Health Science center educators will be able to datacast training on their patient simulators to other nursing programs in the state. There are about 20 hospital and college locations that will be receiving the datacasts.