Retooling Classrooms With Panaboards Shatters Charter School System Timeline

By Panasonic Corporation of North America

Something went drastically wrong with the timeline. The conversion from passive 19th Century chalkboard to interactive 21st Century Panaboard wasn't expected to be functionally implemented until the beginning of the 2011 school year, eight months down the road.

Instead it began happening in just days as once wary teachers almost instantaneously embraced their new state-of-the-art technological tools.

Within weeks the big old chalkboards, scheduled to remain in service until at least the next year, were being pulled out of classrooms and the positive effects of animated, multimedia learning were already being felt by students, teachers and administrators.

Despite relying exclusively on Panasonic printers, copiers and Panafax machines to handle its back office document-processing workflow, Ann Arbor, Michiganbased education-service provider Global Education Excellence (GEE) did not automatically turn to Panasonic when it decided to add interactive electronic whiteboards to every classroom in the ten K-12 and Grade 6-12 public school academies it manages in and around Detroit, MI, and Toledo, Ohio.