Word Processing
Background
"The term word processing was invented by IBM in the late 1960s. By 1971 it was recognized by the New York Times as a "buzz word." A 1971 Times article referred to "the brave new world of Word Processing or W/P." See more from Wikipedia
Mr Johnson's Rules of Writing
- Content comes first
- Get all you content, spell check, revisions, and writing done first
- Your content is most important
- Make it look good AFTER you have finished ALL you content.
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- ie fonts, colors, alignment, font sizes, graphics, etc.
Ideas for Using WP With Your Curriculum
- Great list from Wacona Elementary School, Waycross, GA
- Another list of ideas from the University of New Brunswick
- Tools & Templates from Education World
- Apple Learning Interchange : WP ideas from Apple
- Microsoft Education : Ideas, templates, helps, and more for educators
- Google Docs : Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs
Web 'stuff' to get you going
Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Not just a thesaurus, it's also an addicting toy. You simply must
experience this to appreciate how cool it is. The 'local' version will
integrate withing MS Word.
SwitchZoo
http://www.switchzoo.com/
There are a lot of very creative out there. These folks take their
creativity and allow others to expand and write about it.
National Geographic Talk Back
http://nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/backtalk/
A fun writing starter activity online.
Comics in the Classroom:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=188
An introduction to the genre of comic books and their appeal for
today's students.
NACAE: National Association of Comics Art Educators
http://www.teachingcomics.org/
Wacky Web Tales: online Mad Libs
http://eduplace.com/tales/
Power Proofreading:
http://eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
'Teaching' Word Processing
- Elementary Word Processing Curriculum : A 'how to teach WP skills' curriclum from Minnetonka, MN Independent School District
- Computer Labs: Why Have Them at the Elementary School Level? a somewhat older, but good guide, to effectively using computer labs for work processing and other skills.
- Word Processing for Children : This is a series of 80 downloadable Word documents that include exercises and worksheets to teach word processing to elementary school children.
Software: Common Word Processors
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Works
- Open Office/neo office
- WordPerfect
- notepad
- AppleWorks (no longer in production)
- Pages (apple only)
Online Writing Tools
- Google docs ( http://docs.google.com )
- Hypertextopia ( http://www.hypertextopia.com/ )
- Writeboard ( http://www.writeboard.com/ )
- Zoho ( http://www.zoho.com/ )
- AjaxWrite13 (http://us.ajax13.com/en/index.jsp)
