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The versatile tablet PC made its way into the hands and backpacks of seventh-graders at Ocoee Middle School in Orange County, Fla., this fall in a first-ever pilot program designed to test the effectiveness of the tablet PC combined with a Web-based curriculum, one-to-one computing and full-time Internet access.
The yearlong project is a joint effort between Hewlett-Packard, which provided the tablet PCs; Microsoft, which contributed its Class Server 3.0; and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which provided electronic textbook resources. This program is remarkable because, according to...