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
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Perfect Solutions
Makers of portable keyboards
Perfect Solutions
2685 Treanor Terrace
Wellington, FL 33414
800-726-7086
perfect@gate.net
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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 in a [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Jul 5th, 2004 37 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 day, [...]
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 stacks and there [...]
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 increase the exposure [...]
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 an educational consultant [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 1999 No Comments »
© 1999 Will Small
wwsjr777@theworld.com
“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 saved [...]