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Koenig, Alan J.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1985
The Apple Foundation awarded a two-year joint project to Peabody College for Teachers and Tennessee School for the Blind (TBS) to study development of word processing skills by visually handicapped students. The article discusses the project's conceptual framework, activities at the project site, and a module developed to introduce students to the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Sensory Aids, Visual Impairments
Woolston, Donald C. – Engineering Education, 1984
Microcomputers are used in a technical writing course to enhance instructor and student productivity, improve the quality of student writing performance, and prepare young engineers for future on-the-job communication tasks. Describes the microcomputer facility, software, and activities included in the course. Also provides information on the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Course Content, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Bates, John; Leclerc, Gerry – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1985
The ways in which McGill University's information center meets the needs of end users by providing acquisition advice, training, consulting, technical assistance, and administrative services are described. Staffing, facilities, services, standards, policies, and long-term objectives are addressed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Centers, Management Information Systems, Microcomputers
Epstein, Jacqueline F. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1986
The word processor was used to improve writing skills of 10 hearing impaired students (grades seven through nine)and impart excitement to the students in prewriting and group writing activities. (CL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Hearing Impairments, Junior High Schools, Student Motivation
Cersosimo, R. J. – Career Training, 1986
Discusses how technology will be utilized in the future to improve instruction and increase the value of technical training, both to students and their potential employers. Administrative applications such as recruitment, billing, and job placement, and instructional applications such as word processing and computer-aided design are examined. (CT)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Science, Job Placement
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Sheie, Timothy P. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1983
An interdisciplinary project for secondary level mainstreamed hearing impaired students employed photography, word processing, journalism, and graphic arts to promote independent creativity. Academic skills were taught or remediated via this approach, which was motivating to the students. (CL)
Descriptors: Creativity, Hearing Impairments, Journalism, Mainstreaming
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Lupo, James V.; Ware, Mark E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
A workshop designed to teach participants how to use microcomputers for practice management, psychological testing, word processing, peripheral interface, and data analysis was found to meet the interests and needs of both academic and practicing psychologists. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Data Analysis, Microcomputers, Psychological Testing
Schwartz, Helen J. – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1983
Argues that having students use the outlining, prompting, and abstracting capabilities of word processing programs can help tighten their writing organization. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education, Organization
Blair, John C., Jr. – Online, 1984
Review of computer software offering text editing/processing capabilities highlights work habits, elements of computer style and composition, buffers, the CRT, line- and screen-oriented text editors, video attributes, "swapping,""cache" memory, "disk emulators," text editing versus text processing, and UNIX operating…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Display Systems, Man Machine Systems
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Williams, James G. – Library Hi Tech, 1984
Defines and describes the components and functions that constitute a microcomputer--bits, bytes, address register, cycle time, data path, and bus. Characteristics of 8-, 16-, and 32-bit machines are explained in detail, and microprocessor evolution, architecture, and implementation are discussed. Application characteristics or types for each bit…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Steele, Louise W. – ABCA Bulletin, 1984
Briefly describes a variety of office equipment, including copiers, ditto machines, offset printers, typewriters, typesetting equipment, computers, and dictation equipment. (AEA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Dictation, Higher Education
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Newman, Judith M. – Language Arts, 1984
Discusses the potential of word processors for allowing students to generate and manipulate language while writing, and its superiority over the widespread use of computer programed packages and drills for teaching writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Elementary Education
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Foma, Eleanor – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1983
This study determines the effects of spaced and massed practice on text-editing typing production using machines without a visual screen and with a visual screen. The author also makes recommendations for curriculum revisions of word processing courses in community colleges. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Office Machines
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Carey, Mark – English in Australia, 1983
Offers a personal perspective on the use of computers in English instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, English Instruction, Microcomputers
Watt, Molly – InCider, 1983
Suggests that parents and teachers be alert to new programs that help children express their ideas and store information. Highlights several programs found in such disk magazines as "Window" and "Microzine," a word processing program (Bank Street Writer), and a program to create original arcade games (Rocky's Boots). (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science Education, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
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