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An invaluable guide to the basics of text processing and keyboarding, taking students through the correct positioning of fingers with exercises covering all the different keys, so that both speed and accuracy can be achieved. Ergonomics and health and safety are also covered to ensure students stay safe in the workplace. ... Read more

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Although most educators know they can use computers to successfully deliver reading instruction, many are grappling with how to incorporate computers into their classrooms in ways that best enhance students' literacy learning. This book will help you reflect on and gain insights into the complex nature of the teaching-learning process when computers are used to support students' literacy growth.

Author Maureen Carroll shares her study of how one teacher and her elementary-grade students integrated computer-based literacy instruction into their curriculum. The chapters highlight the three major themes that emerged from the study-collaboration, exploration, and play-to help you understand the diverse ways in which computers both foster and hinder students' literacy development. You'll ultimately discover that technology's function should not be to replace the instruction that is already in place but to enhance it.

Reflection Points and classroom vignettes will provoke thought and discussion about computer-based literacy instruction. Lessons, such as Internet Scavenger Hunt and Family Fun Night, also are offered to help you begin integrating computer use in your classroom.Use this book to imagine new instructional possibilities, undertake new classroom activities, and question your own teaching-learning process as you use computers to support your students' literacy growth. ... Read more

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No Literacy Instruction
Carroll transcribes plenty of dialogue from her 6 month study in a 2-3 classroom. The students are given so much time to explore andlearn to navigate on the computer that they never accomplish anything. The teacher and author believe this social time and learning to navigate are the most important aspects of technology education. There is nothing wrong with this perspective, yet for a book on using a computer for literacy activities it is suprisingly void of useful activities. ... Read more

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This excellent text helps students write correctly at the typewriter and word processor. Divided into three parts, each with keyboarding exercises: English usage (45 drills), proofreading (25 drills), and composition (17 drills). ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Computers & Education, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper concerns the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in music classrooms, with the focus on the secondary school music curriculum in the United Kingdom. In particular, it reports on a study of learners in a UK school using software designed to support practical music skills. The paper begins by briefly raising and summarising some key issues for the use of ICT in the UK music curriculum arising from current research and practice in music education. In this context the study is described, which was carried out in a British secondary school with 36 pupils in year 8 (aged ~13). This study investigated whether a commercial CD-ROM entitled Teach Me Piano Deluxe, which was designed to teach music practical skills was able to support pupils' acquisition of music keyboard skills. The results showed that there was a significant improvement in reading music (staff) notation and rhythm skills. The study suggests that this is one of the ways in which ICT may be useful for learning practical music skills in the music classrooms. Such potential improvement in practical skills may, in turn, enable pupils to approach music-based activities such as: composing, performing or listening in the classrooms, with greater confidence, a deeper level of understanding, and appreciation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Children's Digest, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 355 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Keyboarding with Computer Cal.(learning and practising typing skills)(Brief Article)
Publication: Children's Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc.
Volume: 54Issue: 4Page: 16(2)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Skillbuilding combines the unique pretest/practice/posttestdiagnostics with the power and flexibility of the microcomputer, allowing you to individualize your instruction—even in a group. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Buyer beware
I ordered the book with ISDN 0028019369 as it was indicated this is the book and disk. After receiving two copies (the first being unacceptable), I found the disk mentioned is a data disk and still does not contain the software. According to the copyright page ISBN 0028019350 = text only, ISBN 0028019369 = text w/ disks, ISBN 0028019377 = software -- no mention of text. This book may best be checked out in-person to determine which book you want and then order verifying the ISBN.

Excellent, but . . .
I just received my Skillbuilding book and the drills are excellent, just what I need.But the book refers to "the "Skillbuilding software"which I think would be even more helpful.Where is it and how do we get it?

Book Is Top Notch!
Anything by Dr. Klemin is top notch!Excellent for Keyboarding/Typing clases at all levels. ... Read more

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Can you imagine learning to touch type without a keyboard?? Yes, you can even practice typing in bed, at the dinner table, waiting in the car at the traffic lights or any other time when your hands are not busy doing other things.The diagrams in this multi-sensory teaching book will have you perplexed as to the appendages on the fingers, but when you see how they teach the letters and movement you will know that you are onto a very good thing indeed. A must for every Grandma and Grandpa to have in their library! ... Read more

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Almena has written A compete guide to learning Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Almena's aim is to help people achieve instant success. This course is a powerful tool that can improve the ability of people of any age to effectively use computers. The course includes WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, E-MAIL, and INTERNET. The author is an educator who has reduced to its simplest form information of a highly technical nature. "Beginners can now take a "tiger-leap" into technological self-sufficiency." ... Read more