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Dartfish is proud to announce the opening of the largest Dartfish dedicated digital teaching facility in the country, established by Dr. Ben Johnson at Georgia State University in Atlanta, beginning spring term of 2006.  The Dartfish Classroom, equipped with twenty-five networked computer workstations, will each use the top-of-the line Dartfish TeamPro. Dartfish software is a primary component in his classroom lectures and is used by his students in completing biomechanics lab and project assignments. ?This has significantly improved my students? learning of complex biomechanical concepts,? states Johnson.

After using Dartfish as a consultant to NBColympics.com during the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games, Dr. Johnson utilized Dartfish in teaching biomechanics to both undergraduate and graduate university students in Exercise/Sport Science, Health /Physical Education, and Sports Medicine, at GSU in 2002. Then he established a smaller teaching classroom of 10 workstations in 2003 in the Biomechanics and Ergonomics Laboratory, also equipped with an 8-camera 3-D motion analysis technology system, used for research purposes.

According to Dr. Johnson, ?Dartfish makes the biomechanics of human motion come to life in the classroom.  Prior to Dartfish, I would stand in front of my students and go through an assortment of movement gyrations or I would bring a bag full of videotapes to plug into the VCR in an attempt to help my students visualize a motion concept. With Dartfish, all of my common demo files are stored on my classroom computer. The storyboard feature of Dartfish allows me to align the video files in the order in which I will use them in my lecture, which greatly enhances the flow and efficiency of my presentation. With the Dartfish Analyzer, and patented StroMotion and SimulCam features, I can truly make the biomechanics concepts come to life for my students in such a way that I was never able to do in the past. They can actually see the parabolic path of a ball in flight, when I use StroMotion! In the past they had to take my word for it or rely on my ability to draw a parabola on the board.?

Dr. Johnson attributes this enhanced student learning to the capability of the student-operated Dartfish system to capture and display human motion in a meaningful way, to allow for simple quantified measurements of linear and angular body motions captured in a video file, and to logically organize a movement skill into basic positions and phases where textual, audio and/or graphical information can be added to describe critical biomechanical components of the activity. He further cites the ?wow factor? and computer-based entertainment component that Dartfish brings to the classroom as an additional benefit. ?My students are more engaged in my biomechanics courses than ever before and I attribute that fact to the use of Dartfish in lectures and labs,? stated Johnson. ?There is no question that my students are performing at a higher level as a result of the use of Dartfish.?