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The use of computers in the writing classroom changes the actual activities used in class, adapting some present activities and creating new paradigm activities, and also changes the arrangement of the classroom, forcing a radical rethinking of spatial design. The computer classroom is not a passive room, one where information goes out from the teacher to passive receptors; it is an active room where the information flows from writer to computer to readers in the room or on the network. Computers in the classroom change the location of authority, directing focus away from the teacher and the chalkboard and onto the screen, onto the text generated on the computer. In this setting, the teacher acts as facilitator, helping the information flow. Finally, computers in the classroom change the way teachers teach, encouraging veteran teachers to reconsider old ways of teaching composition while they cope with the new technology. (Two appendixes containing illustrations of computer classroom designs and a capsulated comparison between the traditional and computer classrooms are attached.) (KEH)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert