I have had many positive experiences with Alpha Smart 2000, 3000 and the NEO. I hope that some of you might add to this information.


Things I like about the NEO: 

• Eight different students can use one NEO
• There are 387 lessons for elementary, middle and high school
• Lessons may be edited or created 
  
• The lessons may be used for whole class work 
• Use lessons to collaborate with staff and send to a friend
• Copy and paste lessons and print them out for students to have as visual aid 
• Download the lessons to use as a reference.
• Built in KEYWORDS TYPING PROGRAM
• The students may use a personal password
• The NEO keyboard commands are built in for quick lookups
  
• CoWriter is a word prediction program that may be added  
  
• CoWriter has vocabulary topics that may be added to your NEO 
• Portability and durability
• Excellent technical support
• The manual is easy to understand
  
• Battery life is 700 hours 
• Only 3 double AA batteries

Things I do not like about the NEO: 

• You can only add eight lessons at a time to the device,
• Alpha Smart 3000 with Co Writer does not include lessons 
  
• The applet downloads are easy but they are time consuming
  
• I did not learn that much from the webinars 
• The USB cables are often misplaced. Buy three cables.

Other: Different companies have software word processing programs that are used with computers. Ask me about these programs if you are interested.