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Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Describes a game whose goal is to make the largest three or four digit number possible from numbers appearing on successive rolls of a die. Discusses the written strategies developed for this game by third and seventh grade students. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Cox, Beth – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Describes how a class of 13 academically average high school students, inspired by an earlier article in this journal, collaboratively wrote a story. Notes that the students continued to revise their story even after it came back from the printers. (RS)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, High Schools, Teaching Methods, Word Processing
Pitel, Vonna J. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses the advantages of making the writing center part of the instructional media center in schools and provides some questions to consider in setting up a writing center. Offers three examples of popular writing assignments. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Language Arts, Program Descriptions
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
