ERIC Number: ED294345
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 98
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The Macintosh Lab Monitor, Numbers 1-4.
Wanderman, Richard; And Others
Macintosh Lab Monitor, n1-4 Fall 1986-Sum 1987
Four issues of the "Macintosh Lab Monitor" document the Computer-Aided Writing Project at the Forman School (Connecticut) which is a college preparatory school for bright dyslexic adolescents. The project uses Macintosh computers to teach outlining, writing, organizational and thinking skills. Sample articles have the following titles: "The Macintosh Computer and Dyslexia"; "Outline Processing with Acta"; "The Forman Macintosh Lab"; "Teaching Composition on the Macintosh"; "Glossary of Computer Terms"; "Interactivity in the Macintosh Lab"; "Conversational Writing"; "Spelling Checkers"; "HFS: A Visual Filing System for the Macintosh"; "Software Piracy in Secondary Schools"; "A Different Type of Computer Camp"; "Post-Testing Results and Year-End Conversations"; "Thinking and Writing"; "Computer Aided Composition: Looking Backward"; "The Forman Font"; and "Computer Aided Drawing." (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Dyslexia, Program Effectiveness, Secondary Education, Word Processing, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
The Forman School, Computer-Aided Writing Project, The Forman School, Litchfield, CT 06759 (free plus postage).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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