A.J.s Technology for Writing

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A.J.s Technology for Writing

• Internet
• Computer software Microsoft word, Inspiration,
  Readplease, Kidspiration, Solo, Co-Writer, Write
  Outloud, Dragon (voice to text), The Writing
  Machine, Story book Weaver
• THE WRITER

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The Writer
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The Writer

• Who Its For - Who will it Fit?
• Using the Writer How could you use it?
• Management How can we use it best?

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The Writer Who its for

• Students whose fine motor difficulties are
  supported more effectively with keyboarding
• Students who have difficulty copying from the
  board
• Students who have difficulty spelling
• Students who are not motivated to write
• Students who need assistance with generating
  ideas, word choice, and organization when writing

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Using the WriterEnrolling and opening a work
folderPress the On/Off key Folder Selection
screen

• FI Available F5 Available
• F2 Available F6 Available
• F3 Available F7 Available
• F4 Available F8 Available

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Remember

• Pressing Esc at any time will return you to the
  previous screen and main menus!
• The Writer saves everything automatically!

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Press F1Enter Folder Name Type your
subject area here Press EnterEnter
student name Type your first name here

• Press Enter
• Enter teacher name Type your last name here
  Press Enter

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Resource K Keyboarding N New File

• Press N to open a new file in your Work Folder
• Name your new file
• Type a topic from your subject area such as Math
  Journal

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Enabling Password Protection Open your work
folder and press Alt-P
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Creative Writing Prompts

• There are 41 writing prompts programmed in the
  Writer
• Press the Apps. key. Place the gt on writing
  prompts and press Enter. Three choices will be
  offered by pressing the downward arrow key,
  select Browse prompt list
• Continue to press down arrow key to view prompts
• Press Enter to view writing prompt (if you accept
  it is automatically saved as a file in the folder
  you are in)
• Press Escape to go back to Work Folder screen

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• Press N to open a new file in your Work Folder
• Name your new file Writer
• Type the following sentences

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Auto-Thesaurus

• Press the Option key and the Thesaurus key the
  Writer will scan for overused words and offer
  suggestions.
• Mine turned out like this

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Thesaurus

• Place the cursor under the word you would like to
  check for synonyms and press the Thesaurus key.
• By pressing the Thesaurus key once or even twice
  again, you will be a shown a second or even third
  set of word choices.

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Or
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Spell Check

• Spell check your dream story by pressing the
  spell check key.
• One of two windows will appear similar to the
  Thesaurus screens.
• You will either get a no suggestion screen,
• a list of suggested spellings, or a Spell check
  complete screen.

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Replacing the Word

• If you locate a word that you believe is the
  correct spelling for the misspelled word, press
  the Enter key and the word will immediately be
  inserted into your text

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Writer word prediction

• Move your cursor to the bottom of your Dream text
• Press Alt-W to open word prediction
• Begin to type anything you like
• The Writer will automatically offer word options
• Press the number that you would like to choose.
  If you do not see the word you like, continue
  typing the word and more suggestions will appear

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Deleting a folder

• In order to delete a folder you must be in that
  folder
• Open your work folder F1-F8 and press Alt-D

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Checklist Templates

• There are seven checklist templates available
• 1. Good Writing Checklist
• 2. Perfect Paragraph Checklist
• 3. Multi-Paragraph Checklist
• 4. Six Traits of Writing Checklist
• 5. Response to Literature Checklist
• 6. Persuasive Essay Checklist
• 7. Writing Prompts Checklist (automatically
  attached to the on-board writing prompts)
• 8. (No Checklist)

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More cool features

• Written files and Keyboarding reports can be sent
  via infrared to both computers and some printers
• Daily journal with five page writing capacity.
  Entry is automatically dated and student may only
  write under current day.
• All writing printed from the Writer comes with an
  automatic heading that contains the students
  name, the teachers name, the file name and the
  date, and with a student self - assessment
  checklist.

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Sample of Print out page

• Student Wendy
  File New Species
• Teacher Parsons
  Date Feb. 23, 2007
• You discovered a new animal specie. Write an
  article announcing your great discovery. Be sure
  to include
• a complete description of this new species.
• how the discovery was made.
• what makes this discovery so special.
• Writing Prompts
• My writing
• ___ is well organized with a beginning, middle
  and end.
• ___ uses exact and interesting language to
  develop the characters.
• ___ uses exact and interesting language to
  develop the setting.
• ___ uses exact and interesting language to
  develop the action.
• ___ does not stray from the main idea of the
  story.
• ___ answers important who, what, where, when and
  why questions.
• ___ has heart and expresses feeling.
• ___ demonstrates good spelling, capitalization,
  punctuation and sentence
• structure.