In this way, members can share what they got out of the class and fill in gaps in each other's information. After each study session, one member can be responsible for uploading the study notes into e-mail and sending the information to each of the other members. As an added study bonus, each member can type in study questions about the material and each of the others can answer them. This basically means students will have many more opportunities to get 'hands-on' experience outside the classroom. Inevitably this will also mean that students will have to provide journals, case studies, on-site reports of activities, etc. as part of their coursework.
Many students take part in student groups, clubs, and other activities outside of class.
Having been there myself, I know that people tend to either forget to take minutes of meetings, or the written notes do not get properly distributed or saved. Even worse, the group comes up with a great programming idea and spends weeks putting it together from scratch, only to find out later that the same program had been done a year or two before, but nobody had bothered to keep a journal of what had been done. The Alphasmart will not eliminate these problems, but will make it easier to drop the meeting notes into e-mail for sharing or word processing for saving and printing. Better yet, the Athletic Department could have Alphasmarts available for students to use while waiting for practice to begin, or to use for team and individual tutorials. The answer would have to be word processing.