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Technology-Transformed Dictionary Compilation: Drudgery into Desired Desktop Lexicographer Enchantment

Describes how grade 3-8 inner-city students created multimedia, multicultural dictionaries. Highlights student reflections on the project using Kid Pix software, and their ideas for future uses for the dictionaries. Argues that technology-driven lexicography can serve as a catalyst for engaging students. (PEN)

• Author/Creator: Reissman, Rose
• Date Published: Nov
• Journal/Secondary Title: Learning and Leading with Technology
• Number: 3
• Volume: 26
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Dictionaries
• Subject: Educational-Technology
• Subject: Elementary Education
• Subject: Inner City
• Subject: Junior High Schools
• Subject: Multimedia Materials
• Subject: Student Projects
• Subject: Urban Education

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