provides a forum for the states to explore ideas and state-specific strategies, build and expand a collective knowledge base, and initiate cross-state collaborative activities that benefit each state with economies of scale and cost-efficiency. A primary focus for the New England Compact is the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Current Compact projects include activ...

As graduate students in computer science at Ohio University, you will be expected to write reports for classes, conference papers, journal papers, theses or dissertations. It is expected that such documents will be well written and carefully prepared. Writing well is a difficult task, even for those of us with many years of experience. It can be even more difficult to prepare professional looki...

This paper introduces the RASH Framework, i.e., a set of specifications and tools for writing academic articles in RASH, a simplified version of HTML. RASH focuses strictly on writing the content of the paper leaving all the issues about its validation, visualisation, conversion, and data extraction to the tools developed within the framework.

In the recent years, due to the emergence of new models of production based on collaboration, collaborative writing tools started to be increasingly used by various communities. Due to great variety of groupware software, there is the need of criteria for discriminating the working modes supported by these tools. In this paper we propose a new model for the classification of collaborative writi...

This paper introduces the RASH Framework, i.e., a set of specifications and tools for writing academic articles in RASH, a simplified version of HTML. RASH focuses strictly on writing the content of the paper leaving all the issues about its validation, visualisation, conversion, and data extraction to the tools developed within the framework.

This study aims at investigating the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) on L2 writing achievement if applied via blogging as a Web 2.0 tool, as well as examining which pattern of interaction is more conducive to learning in such an environment. The results of the study indicate that using weblogs to provide mediation contributes to the enhancement of the overall writing performance, vocabulary a...