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Simmons, Jay; McLaughlin, Timothy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2003
Considers how when two-year college students take time to write at length, paying more attention to their own feelings and those of their readers through regular response and revision, they write better. Presents four assignments that all students would attempt, then share with classmates, and with partners at the other grade level via a Web site.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Instructional Improvement
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Cassidy, Jacquelyn A. – English Journal, 1996
Describes a series of e-mail writing assignments and other online writing activities for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students. Suggests that computers help improve ESL students' writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language)
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Karchmer, Rachel A. – Reading Online, 2001
Suggests that possibly one of the most profound changes in classroom writing has come with the ease and excitement of publishing electronic text on the Internet. Discusses publishing student work on the Internet, and Internet publishing of traditional writing assignments, collaborative writing projects, and multimedia presentations. (RS)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Internet
Coulson, Elaine – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Notes that not having anything to say is a major hurdle in the writing process at the middle school level. Describes two common classroom experiences, based on the software programs "GeoWorld" and "Food for Thought," that enable all students to acquire and share information together. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Middle Schools
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Maring, Gerald H.; Wiseman, Beau J.; Myers, Kurt S. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1997
Explains how professors of literacy development, classroom teachers, and inservice facilitators can help students and teachers create interactive World Wide Web sites so that they can write for genuine purposes and to real audiences. Uses the example of preservice teachers creating interactive Web sites. Offers a summary of recent literature and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Schwartz, Jeffrey – English Journal, 1990
Describes writing assignments in which students in Pennsylvania, Montana, and South Dakota exchanged writing on BreadNet, an electronic network. Notes that as students wrote within a meaningful and purposeful communication context, they learned to test their stereotypes, to expand their writing skills, and to perceive the computer as an instrument…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Information Networks, Secondary Education
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Ball, Patti; Waddell, Dave; Beatty, Greg; Houston, Linda; Samberg, Becky Cohen; Kovach, Charles; Fujii, Marcia – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Offers seven brief descriptions of class projects and assignments used successfully in writing classes of all sorts, from first-year composition classes to business communication to computerized writing labs. (SR)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Freshman Composition
Hinshaw, Craig – Arts & Activities, 2001
Describes an art lesson that focuses on developing second-grade students' basic computer drawing skills. Explains that the students created a picture using shapes and copied their artworks onto the computer using a stylus. States that the students also wrote a story to accompany their computer pictures. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies
Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses how the computer can be used to help students learn to revise their writing through peer review, rereading their writing, and reacting and reshaping their writing in response to their peer's comments. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Peer Influence, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education
Polin, Elane – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Describes a writing strategy that teaches students how to write a first person narrative and revise for more exact and fresh vocabulary words. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education, Vocabulary Development
Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses the work of Beatrix Potter as an artist and natural scientist. Presents three classroom projects which integrate technology, fine art, aesthetics, writing, and science. (MG)
Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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McGlinn, Marguerite M. – English Journal, 1995
Describes a writing assignment for which high school students were to use the Internet to gather information as the basis for composing a piece of satire. Outlines some of the logistics of allowing students to research on the computer as opposed to the library--the problems and benefits--and describes student papers and experiences. (TB)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation, Group Activities
Brown, Joan Marie – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1996
Describes a multimedia math activity for sixth-grade students who have access to a computer lab. Students work in groups and interview an adult who uses math in his or her job. Then, they write an explanatory narrative describing how that adult uses math. Finally, they create a KidPix video slideshow with voice overlays to share with the class.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Group Activities
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Carlson, William L. – Journal of Economic Education, 1999
Argues that knowledge of statistics is becoming increasingly important for economics students. Presents a lesson to improve the learning of statistics and communication skills using short cases that include an economics problem and real data. Describes how students work in teams with computers for analysis and preparation of written reports. (DSK)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Data Analysis
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Horning, Alice S. – College Composition and Communication, 1991
Describes a course that resulted from the interest and need of the academic-advising office to serve undecided students more efficiently, preferably in a group-advising format. Finds that the resulting atmosphere seems to help students make significant progress in writing and in understanding their indecision. (MG)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Planning, Collaborative Writing, Computer Uses in Education
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