NoteSys Experience

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Experience

Since 1996, NoteSys has completed dozens of teacher and student laptop roll-outs and trained faculty at numerous schools. (See our references for a more complete list.) Following are brief summaries of three "Laptop Pioneer" implementations, schools who continue to be our valued education partners.

Fairfield Country Day School began with laptops for the teachers in the summer of 1996, and started a mandatory program for grades six through nine in October of that year. Every student in these grades obtained a laptop. Most owned them outright while others paid monthly loan payments or received the computers from the school’s financial aid program. The 1997 & 1998 student roll-out included three different models. All models continue to be supported by NoteSys with weekly on-site service visits.

Kent School, beginning in June of 1996, provided a laptop for every teacher, and offered a voluntary program for its high school students. In the first year, the school had equipped almost 60% of its students with laptops. These initial laptops included two different models which were purchased directly by the students. The student roll-out for ‘97 offered four different models. Currently they have over 90% of their students equipped with laptops. The campus is wired for a Local Area Network, and all dorm rooms and many public areas have outlets available for students to “plug-in.” Kent has a comprehensive student-run repair center on campus, and NoteSys assists weekly with onsite visits for warranty repairs.

Kent Center School, a public K-8 school, started in October 1996 with laptops for the 7th and 8th grade teachers. The school purchased machines for the 7th grade in February, 1997, and equipped the new 7th grade with laptops in October 1997. The school owns the machines and retains them when students move to high school. NoteSys visits the school weekly to ensure that the technology remains a seamless tool in the education process.

How did it start?

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In 1995, staff from Microsoft visited several schools in Australia that had been using laptops for a few years. Upon their return, they invited several Seattle schools to accompany them back to Australia to view laptop learning in action. Both Microsoft and the Seattle schools were so impressed, they invited the Australians to visit Seattle and help orchestrate the very first Learning with Laptops Summit.

Two Connecticut schools, Fairfield Country Day School and Kent School, were among the 100 schools that attended this conference. They became the first two Connecticut schools of 30 schools nationwide to participate in this new endeavor.

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At the invitation of NoteSys, Greenwich Country Day, King & Low-Heywood Thomas, and a few other schools attended the second annual laptop learning conference. Every Connecticut school that came to this conference returned home to start a laptop program. NoteSys is currently assisting over one hundred schools implementing or continuing laptop learning programs.

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The Anytime, Anywhere Learning Summit, as the program is now called, continues to be an annual event. It was held February, 1998, in Seattle, Washington. and January, 1999 in Dallas, Texas. In February, 2000, NoteSys was a sponsor of the Summit held in Seattle. Each year hundreds of schools and over 600 people come together to share their experiences with Laptop Learning. Watch for the announcement of the next summit.

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