~Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

"Learning through the spoken and written word. This intelligence was always valued in the traditional classroom and in traditional assessments of intelligence and achievement."

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Technologies

 

Web development tools - sharing a poem, myth, legend, news article PDF files Word processing (Word, Appleworks) - writing, rewriting, process writing Brainstorming, listing, review terms, writing definitions, listing ideas Writing a video script Voice annotation in word processing Using comments in word processing Desktop publishing (Publisher, Pagemaker) - the text aspect, bookmaking Desktop presentation (PowerPoint, Astound) - the text organization aspect Story-creation software (poems, essays, letters) Multimedia authoring (HyperStudio) - the text aspects Audio recorders and digitizers - recording oral histories and interviews Video recording - text aspect storytelling, news program, interview, scripting, choral reading, retelling, speaking, debating, dramatizing Email Discussion lists and forums - discussing, debating Chats Reading and interpreting web information Electronic reference tools - encyclopedia, dictionaries CD-ROM Interactive books on CD, e-books, and text-based software

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Check it out

Click links below to see samples of these activities at PHS.

• Classroom Blogs
   
• Journals
   
• Editing with MS Word