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Chaos reigns.Or does it?When uninitiated visitors walk into our Apple Lab (which is a part of our Writing Lab) at Hazelwood West High, their first impression often is "How do you work when there is so much noise going on?"But when the fifteen printers stop, visitors are even more amazed by the quiet diligence and concentration of the students who are working at the computers.Our Apple He Lab often accommodates twenty to twenty-five students and teachers, all or most of whom will be working on very different kinds of writing activities.For example, a typical class hour might include a home economics teacher composing a newsletter to parents on the Newsroom program, five to ten students typing various parts of research papers on Applewriter, a student or two making a cover sheet for a paper on Print Shop , three to five journalism students composing stories for the school newspaper, a student using the Sensible Speller to check a paper for misspelled words or to count the number of words in a contest paper, a student writing a paper for a political science class, a teacher assistant making a crossword puzzle on Crossword Magic for a vocabulary lesson, and the Writing Lab assistant updating Lab records on PFS : File .And while all these people are working, if no one is having problems, I may sit down at a computer myself to work on a grant proposal or to write an article. Getting StartedWe did not set out to have a computer lab.
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- 1987
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