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Stine, Linda – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Notes that proponents of writing across the curriculum may find a partner in the proliferation of computers on campuses. Points out that discussions about how to teach effectively with computers provide a new incentive and focal point, reinforcing the principles of sound writing pedagogy. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Postsecondary Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Offers three writing activities in the areas of language arts, life science, and visual arts. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Describes a learning strategy which asks students to write questions that can be answered from the information posted on a graph that they created. (MG)
Descriptors: Graphs, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction
Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Discusses the use of portfolios to keep a record of student progress in mathematics. Deals with what portfolios might include, advantages of portfolios, student attitudes, teachers and portfolios, and assessment of portfolios. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Mathematics, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Offers writing activities related to the reading of E. B. White's "Charlotte's Web," including showing the movie, using HyperCard, showing a video about a webspinning spider as a prewriting activity, and using computer graphics and video cameras to create related visual projects. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Imhof, Heidi – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses the four critical characteristics of a teaching style which offers hands-on science experiences in the outdoors that lead to writing activities. Provides examples from the Alaska Writing Program which is modeled after the Bay Area Writing Project. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Science Activities, Sciences
Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Discusses how students can express their feelings and problems through writing, painting, and drawing; also discusses how this process can increase the awareness and sensitivity of their classmates. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Painting (Visual Arts), Secondary Education
Horney, Mark; And Others – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Illustrates how electronic outlining is an easy way to empower students through the use of technology. Discusses how electronic outliners provide students with a dynamic medium for recording and organizing their ideas prior to writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Outlining (Discourse), Thinking Skills
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Shares a writing activity in which students create riddles to define a particular number. (MG)
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Mathematics
Broglie, Mary; Hare, Tom – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1992
Describes a collaborative research project in a tenth grade world history class which used a computer software product ("Aspects") in the school writing center to allow students to write collaboratively. (SR)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning
Adams, Richard C. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Describes ways to increase students' writing and communication skills in high school chemistry and physics classes: term papers in chemistry, shorter papers on fascinating physics questions, and oral presentation of the results. (SR)
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Science Activities, Science Instruction, Secondary Education
Coats, Kaye; And Others – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Gives several ideas from four elementary and secondary teachers on improving students' writing via the use of computers. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education
Franklin, Sharon, Ed.; Madian, Jon, Ed. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1986
Produced using a Macintosh Plus and LaserWriter Printer, these journals present articles relating to word processing in the classroom. Articles and their authors for the November/December 1986 issue include: "Computer Assisted Instruction: Western Europe" (Owen and Irene Thomas); "FrEd Writing" (B. Fleury); "Writing Up a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing