Teaching
word processing and writing skills
Suggested
activities by Jenny Wilkes
(posting
on NETEACH-L on Sept. 10, 2002, reprinted here with permission of the author)
Jenny says, "Here are a few
ideas that make use of a word processor in ways that can have some advantage
over paper based exercises:
- Use of cut
& paste for
sequencing (instructions, paragraphs)
- Use of cut
& paste
or copy
& paste
to put missing phrases (e.g that include conjunctions) into text
- Use of bold,
italics &/or underline
to identify adjectives, past tense verbs - whatever one is teaching
- Use of two
different colours perhaps
to identify 2 different tenses e.g present simple & present continuous
in text presented to students &/or in writing they produce"