As words fly onto the computer screen, revolve, and dissolve, image, sound, and movement enter school classrooms in "new" and significant ways, ways that reconfigure the relationship of image and word. In this paper I discuss these "new" modal configurations and explore how they impact on students' text production and reading…

Explains the use of the Times Network System's (TTNS) Electronic Mailbox in the classroom, discussing advantages and disadvantages, and suggests conditions favorable to a successful program. (NH)