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Motion Tablet PCs Receive High Marks at Celebration High SchoolMobility Helps Set Teaching Best Practices into Action |
AUSTIN, Texas, October 5, 2005 – Celebration High School (CHS) has begun a new era in teaching with Motion Computing® tablet PCs. This fall marks the school’s first year as a totally wireless, ultra-mobile teaching environment. All 110 teachers and administrators at the Celebration, Fla., high school are now using Motion tablet PCs.
The Motion tablets serve as the hub of CHS’s wireless teaching world that includes a campus-wide wireless network, wireless projectors, and interactive white boards. Gone are the days of grading and lesson plan books for CHS teachers. Academic, disciplinary, and personal information about each student is securely stored wirelessly via the tablet on the school’s network. In addition to using the tablet to create and project lessons, teachers grade assignments submitted electronically and can analyze that data and share it with administrators instantaneously. CHS has more than 700 wireless laptops available for student use.
“One well-known best practice in teaching is that students learn best when teachers interact with them, as opposed to lecturing to them,” said Scott Muri, CHS’s assistant principal. “Students pay more attention when the teacher circulates throughout the classroom. With the tablet, interactive white boards, and wireless projectors, the teachers at Celebration High are able to move about the classroom freely.”
“There is such great potential for tablets in the classroom,” said Ralph Spagnola, senior vice president of sales for Motion Computing. “It’s really exciting to see tablets taking hold as a powerful teaching tool, helping teachers get out and about in the classroom and engage students.
Over the past three years, CHS tracked the evolution and reliability of tablet PCs, waiting for the right time and the right technology to fall within the state’s IT budget for the school. With Executive Source Quality Computer Systems (ESQ), a Motion Computing channel partner, CHS selected Motion M1400 tablets for their durability, flexibility, and ease-of-use. Teachers were trained by ESQ on basic tablet functions in April 2005 and were up-and-running without any major issues in time for the start of the 2005-2006 school year. According to Muri, the teacher’s response to the tablets has been overwhelmingly positive.
Here’s what a few of the teachers at CHS had to say:
“In addition to drawing on presentations and lessons with the tablet’s pen, I enjoy being able to type notes using the Bluetooth keyboard. I usually set my tablet up with an LCD projector and then take the keyboard out into the classroom and sit with the students. They seem to enjoy it and feel like they are a part of running the class.”
--Amy Hughes
“I’ve really enjoyed the tablet PC because it’s interactive and mobile. It’s made a big difference in the way my kids learn. They’re more engaged and attentive because of this new and different technology.”
--Joel Fox
About Motion Computing
Motion Computing produces slate tablet PCs for mobile professionals in vertical industries including healthcare, field sales and service, government and education. Motion is a mobile computing and wireless communications leader, combining world-class innovation and industry experience so individuals can use computing technology in new ways and places. Marketed through an experienced international reseller network and directly through its Web site, each Motion product is built to customer specifications. The company’s enhanced line of tablet PCs and accessories are designed to increase productivity for on-the-go users while providing security, power and versatility. For more information, visit www.motioncomputing.com
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