CRAIGIE PRIMARY SCHOOL
A presentation of a Limited Edition AlphaSmart Neo was made to Craigie Primary School by Herbert Brooks from Scottish Learning Products, Scone. Seen receiving the Neo on behalf of the school are Bethany Rattray and Michael Atherton. The name of the school was entered into a draw of schools visiting the AlphaSmart Stand at the Scottish Learning Festival in the SECC, Glasgow.
Only six of the Special Edition models have been produced with the Scottish Flag Logo and Craigie Primary was delighted to win one.
Press Release:
VOTING SYSTEM PUSHES CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Renaissance Learning's AlphaSmart division has successfully launched its fully
configured Responder System (CRS), which has begun to revolutionise
conference halls and lecture theatres.
The low-cost, 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' style wireless voting system allows
speakers to set quizzes and/or questions during lectures, ensuring that the whole
conference or lecture-hall is not only engaged in what is being presented, but
individuals also feel able to participate and answer questions in a non-threatening
environment. The speaker can fully interact with the audience by sending
questions directly to the audience's handsets or they can be sent to a projector
and screen. The handsets can also be pre-loaded with questions and used outside
the conference hall.
Wireless communication means that there are no cabling or line-of-sight issues in
normal usage of CRS. It will support 200-300 handsets (depending on specific
conditions) and at a range of up to 300 metres.
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NEO Review on CNNMoney.com:
THE TROUBLE WITH GEE-WHIZ GADGETS
Too many gizmos these days are loaded with features we don't need - or use. Business 2.0's Chris Taylor explains why that's all about to change.
I'm writing this column using the hottest gadget to have entered my house this year. It's not a flashy PDA cameraphone with a Bluetooth headset or a WiFi-enabled MP3 player with streaming video capability.
In fact, this isn't a new product at all. It's a three year-old word processor called the Neo - and everything about it points to the future of electronic devices.
Over the last three years, Neo has been embraced less by students than by an unexpectedly different audience: journalists and writers, who have written little hymns to the Neo in magazines, blogs, and even a Flickr group where they share pictures of their Neos.
Why?
Because it's supremely easy to use. It is the ultimate writing tool for an ADD age, as countless reviews on popular sites like Boing Boing have pointed out. You can't do anything other than write on it, in one of eight enormous files.
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ALPHASMART SPONSORS LONDON SCHOOLS' COMMUNITY AWARD
London secondary schools stand to win AlphaSmart ICT equipment and activity days through new community awards set up by national charity Toc H.
The Toc H Community Award will be presented to the school that has made the biggest impact on its local community through encouraging active involvement by its pupils.
Sponsors AlphaSmart will be contributing Neo notebooks, which provide affordable word-processing and have earned a high reputation within the education community for encouraging reluctant writers.
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More information about Community Awards
CO:WRITER NOW ON NEO
AlphaSmart and Don Johnston have put Co:Writer word prediction software on AlphaSmart's Neo laptop for schools.
The system supports student writing by giving feedback on grammar, word choices and sentence structure.
Over 500,000 learners have used Co:Writer technology for more than 15 years. Co:Writer is powered by industry-standard Linguistic Word Prediction intelligence that gives learners topic-specific vocabulary suggestions to narrow the gap between their thoughts and written words.
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More information about Co:Writer
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