Posted in Portable Keyboards on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
AlphaSmart Neo gets Text2Speech The AlphaSmart Neo is a simple, battery-operated keyboard for writing. This new special needs version of the keyboard will speak text aloud, useful for augmentative communication but also for students and adults who need to hear their text read back to them to better edit it.
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
QuickPad Technology Corporation 465 Fairchild Drive Suite #103 Mountain View, CA 94043 800-373-8181 Makers of portable keyboards
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Perfect Solutions Makers of portable keyboards Perfect Solutions 2685 Treanor Terrace Wellington, FL 33414 800-726-7086 perfect@gate.net
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
AlphaSmart Makers of portable keyboards. Customer Service and Sales 888-274-0680 (toll-free) 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM CST, Monday through Friday, excluding Holidays. info@alphasmart.com Technical Support 888-274-2720, 6:30am – 6:30pm CST support@alphasmart.com
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 5th, 2004 8 Comments »
© 1997 Richard Wanderman Now that I’ve been using an AlphaSmart for a few years and have met hundreds of other users both in and out of the education world, I’m amazed at how limited people’s imaginations are about using this most revolutionary tool. Yes, students being able to do electronic composition instead of writing [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Jul 5th, 2004 39 Comments »
© 1997 Richard Wanderman The AlphaSmart keyboard is a small, lightweight electronic writing tool that can give people many of the benefits of a portable computer without the complexity or expense. I like the AlphaSmart keyboard. I also like my Macintosh computers, including a PowerBook. For many of the writing tasks that I do every [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 2001 5 Comments »
© 2001 Gary Sharp Director of the North Bend Public Library North Bend, Oregon Most public libraries today offer computer access for word processing and Internet searching. This computer access usually takes the form of one or more desktop computers in a fixed place in the library. The computers can’t be taken out into the [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 2000 2 Comments »
© 2000 Barbara S. Heinisch heinisch@scsu.ctstateu.edu Barbara Heinisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University. During the Spring 2000 semester the Connecticut AlphaSmarts in the Schools Project took place at Southern Connecticut State University and several school in the state. The purpose of this activity was to [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 1999 5 Comments »
© 1999 Gary Sharp Director of the North Bend Public Library North Bend, Oregon North Bend Public Library recently embarked on a year-long experiment, making five AlphaSmart 2000′s available for public use. The idea for this experiment came from an old friend of mine from Oregon who now lives in Connecticut, Richard Wanderman. Richard is [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 1999 No Comments »
© 1999 Will Small “Thanks heavens!” is what I said when I learned of the existence of lightweight, inexpensive, and uncomplicated word processing technology. The AlphaSmart 2000 is essentially a full size keyboard. You simply turn it on by touching a key, you do your writing, then you turn it off when done. Text is [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 1999 No Comments »
© 1999 Daniel J. Berkowitz, M.A. I like to write, and one of the things I most like about writing is doing research. Poring over books, journals and reference materials, is just plain fun. What I don’t like about writing is dealing with the documentation of research. Nothing ruins the joy of doing research more [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 1998 3 Comments »
© 1998 Julia Bolus jul@ropenet.com Julia Bolus is a creative writing teacher, published poet, and artist. She makes small edition, hand-made artist books. On Sundays, my partner and I go to our favorite Italian diner for breakfast. This morning, we slide into our regular booth by the window and check out our new AlphaSmart. It [...]