Software that allows production and revision of text-based information but also allows adding many kinds of graphic elements to text products.
What is word processing?
100
Programs that are designed to organize and manipulate numerical data.
What are spreadsheets?
100
Designed to display information, including text, images, audio, and video, in a slideshow format.
What is presentation software?
100
Word Processor materials look more polished and professional than hand written or typed material.
What is enhanced document appearance?
100
Presentation software makes people focus on the slides instead of the information presented.
What is impact of presentation software on information presented?
200
An example of a word processing tool that creates documents consisting of pages with text and graphics.
What is Microsoft Word?
200
Row-column position
What is a cell?
200
With this strategy students can document existing stories or write their own so they can be read interactively by others.
What is interactive storybooks?
200
Adaptive keyboard and voice recognition capabilities that make writing more accessible for students with physical challenges.
What are supports for students writing and language learning?
200
PowerPoint makes educators reshape what they present in a way that is inconsistent with developing higher level skills.
What is impact of presentation software on teaching style?
300
A word processor that lets students click on letters, words, or short phrases to send into the word processor, so that they can write sentences without using a keyboard.
What is clicker writer?
300
Calculation commands
What are formulas?
300
The most powerful strategy for integrating presentation software is for students to create individual or small group presentations to document and display results of research they have done and /or to practice making persuasive presentations.
What is student presentation of project work?
300
Spreadsheets make learning more fun.
What is motivation to work with mathematics?
300
Versatile software that must address a students tendency to fear mathematics.
What is an issue associated with spreadsheets?
400
Gives elementary students an early introduction to using Microsoft Office by providing a kid friendly interface for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
What is Scholastic Keys?
400
The earliest application software available for microcomputers.
What is spreadsheet software?
400
Clicker buttons in presentation software.
What are hot spots?
400
Square grid of numbers in which numbers in each row, each column, and each forward and backward diagonal add up to the same number.
What is a magic square?
400
Some educators feel that if word processing is used it could effect a students handwriting.
What is the effects of word processing on handwriting?
500
This word processor feature allows a variety of fonts, type styles,font colors, margins, line spacing, tabs, and indentations in the same document.
What is change styles and appearance?
500
This spreadsheet feature allows numbers, formulas, or other information in cells to be copied and pasted to any other cell.
What is copy cells?
500
This feature shows all frames at once for review and/or changing frame sequence.
What is display as storyboards?
500
When teachers or students create a presentation with this software, it helps them think through what they will say and in what order they should present the information.
What is organized thinking of a topic?
500
Auto correction feature that can replace typed words with ones the software selects as more correct, leading to typos that interfere with intended meaning.