NEO Family
The premier writing tools and the better laptops for schools just got better!
Writing ability is a key skill in the success of all students. NEO and NEO 2 laptops are the 21st century tools that help you facilitate student writing practice right in your classroom.
Now you can incorporate NEO and the all-new NEO 2 laptops in your classroom for across-the-curriculum improvement by your students.
You’ll be amazed at the excitement these “now even better laptops for schools” generate in your students as their writing skills improve, their keyboarding skills develop, and their thinking skills grow in all of their subjects.
NEOs Are Preferred by Writers, Journalists, and Writing Instructors
“NEO is so cool! I just used NEO on this last trip, roughing out 3 or 4 chapters of a new novel. I really liked the stripped-down concept to just allow a writer to bang out words without having to haul around a (much heavier) laptop.” – Sneed B. Collard III, Author of the award-winning books Beaks!, Animal Dads, Butterfly Count, and The Forest in the Clouds
“Through dust, heat, mud, wind, and all kinds of environmental conditions – where I wouldn’t have even dared to take even a tough iBook out of its case… NEO proved itself as an indispensable and very practical writer’s companion.” Brian Byrne, Noted Irish travel writer and journalist
“It’s the perfect notepad: lightweight, comfortable, and tough… And it’s so portable that I enjoy using it in cafes, on park benches, even on trains and buses.” Jeff Greenwald, author of the award-winning books Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World
NEO 2 and NEO Features
- Large LCD screen – displays up to 6 lines of text per screen to meet the display needs of all writers
- Full-size keyboard – enables proper keyboard training for students
of all ages
- Extraordinary battery life – allows students to write, quiz, and practise for up to 700 hours on a single set of AA batteries
- Lightweight and rugged – built to be kid-handled
- Affordable and expandable – low cost of ownership with SmartApplet expandability
- Adaptable keyboard and variable font sizes – for struggling students with special needs
- Built-in classroom response functionality NEO 2 only – uses the 2Know! Toolbar to track and graph student responses instantly
- Accelerated Reader quizzing capability NEO 2 only – allows students to take Accelerated Reader Quizzes at their desks, wirelessly
- Two-way communication NEO 2 only – encourages more and better interaction between teachers and students
- Wireless printing and sharing NEO 2 only – enables students to print documents right from their desks
- Built-in Writing Tools
- AlphaWord Plus
Your students will easily learn their way around NEO’s built-in AlphaWord Plus word processor. This intuitive program will have your students checking their spelling, cutting words during editing, copying and pasting words previously misplaced, populating the custom-user dictionary, and finding alternate words to avoid cliches – all without leaving their NEO or NEO 2 screens.
- Write-On! Lessons
From “blank page syndrome” to “I don’t know how to end this,” student complaints end when you direct them to Write-On! – NEOs’ built-in writing program. It helps students break through their mental blocks and expands their thought patterns by providing 387 writing lessons – each designed to assist students through specific aspects of their writing.
- Linked Files
Teachers can also input additional information to students directly onto their NEOs by using Linked Files, which helps them write more complete, accurate, and precise documents. Details on writing assignments, writing process outlines, essay background materials, or rubrics to check their own work or the work of their peers are just a few of the features this program includes.
- KeyWords
Students love to write when their fingers can keep up with their minds. Help them build strong keyboarding skills with KeyWords, NEO’s built-in keyboarding instruction tutor. Turn “hunt and peck” typists into “think and write” writers – fast!
- AlphaWord Plus
What technologies do NEOs have that make them better than standard laptops for classrooms?
- Conduct on-the-fly assessments with a built-in classroom response system
- Differentiate instruction using an integrated formative assessment feature that is either student – or teacher-paced, and platform independent.
- Provide students with independent writing support through built-in writing lessons that jump-start students’ imaginations and fuel their writing.
- Provide guided instruction by electronically linking resources such as outlines, instructions, or readings to individual student assignments.
- Teach students to self-assess their work by electronically attaching customised rubrics to help reinforce concepts, rules, and principles.
- Encourage student collaboration and peer editing with easy, one-button file transfer between laptops.
- Allow students to print wirelessly without the necessity of a WiFi network connection, which increases time on task.
- Help students increase keyboarding speed and accuracy with built-in language-based keyboarding instruction.
- Take advantage of easy classroom management that helps you send assignments to all your students at once, and receive them when completed.
- Eliminate worry about damage with rugged design that can take what students dish out – even dropping – without losing data or functionality.
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