Writing about accessibility

Writing Web Documents about Films

This paper describes our experiences our experience in building and using a Web-based video library designed for educational use. The CAETI Internet Multimedia Library’s initial audience is K-12 schools; most of the content of our library comes from news and politics-related historical footage. The video library is a good tool not just for content but also for acquiring visual literacy. Politic...

It’s About the Science: Students Writing and Thinking About Data In a Scientific Writing Course

Metaconversations: Ongoing discussion about teaching research writing

This article is a follow up to an earlier publication that developed the rationale for using conversation as a metaphor to teach research writing. We presented this proposed teaching approach at several conferences, including WILU in May 2005 at Guelph, Canada. The discussions with participants in these presentations validated the tenets of the conversational metaphor for research writing. Here...

AI Adventures Worth Writing Home About

and Introduction This paper provides a backdrop to my invited talk at the conference. The talk itself wi l l focus on selected successes of artificial intelligence from the industrial perspective. The selected success stories wil l demonstrate that artificial intelligence has a strong and meaningful influence on our lives by impacting development of products and services we use daily. They wil ...

Chinese children's early knowledge about writing.

Much research on literacy development has focused on learners of alphabetic writing systems. Researchers have hypothesized that children learn about the formal characteristics of writing before they learn about the relations between units of writing and units of speech. We tested this hypothesis by examining young Chinese children's understanding of writing. Mandarin-speaking 2- to 5-year-olds ...