Describes a multimedia CD-ROM yearbook project which combines words, sounds, and images to interpret meaning. (MG)

Describes electronic clustering, an evaluation strategy that graphically reveals students' higher level thinking skills. (MG)

Describes the California Literature Project Multimedia Institute (MMI) as an interesting model of literature-based multimedia training for teachers. States that the goal of the MMI is to increase learning in the language arts classrooms through the creative and responsible use of technology. (MG)

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)

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)

Describes the STAR (Special Technology for Academics and Recreation) labs in two Hartford, Connecticut schools, whose computers are in constant, enthusiastic use to improve the writing of students with a wide range of special needs. (SR)

Describes the program Learning Circles on the AT&T Learning Network in which groups of six to eight classes from around the world cooperatively on a common theme designed to extend classroom learning and provide a purpose, audience, and motivation for research and writing. (MG)

Focuses on three writing programs involving laptop computers for reluctant writers within the Seattle Public Schools. Notes that each program uses their laptops in very different ways to impact the teaching and practice of writing in schools. (MG)

Describes the writing lab at Samuels School, a bilingual school in Denver, CO, where students use computers to improve their writing ability. (MG)

Describes a four-session workshop called "Lights, Camera, Action" in which students are videotaped as they read letters they wrote from the point of view of a character in a book. Notes a positive effect on student motivation. (MG)

Explains how one teacher consultant helped students and teachers in an inner-city elementary school learn to use computers in their literature-based, word-processing supported writing program. (MG)

Suggests how to reorient the typical English 1A writing course, with the help of computer technology, so that more time and effort are focused on the students' writing. Discusses critiquing, peer response, the teacher's role, and drawbacks involved. (MG)

Describes how elementary and secondary students use computers to create prequels to videos shown in their English classes. Discusses how the activity promotes critical thinking, predictive viewing, reading, and writing skills. (MG)