Article: Child-friendly word processing

JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Jerusalem Post
11-26-1995
IT wasn't long ago when pupils stood out in their class by illustrating their hand-written school compositions with photographs cut from magazines or a few hand-made drawings.

My nine-year-old daughter recently "wowed" her fourth-grade teacher and classmates by composing a story on a word-processing program and printing it out at home in readable 25-point type so it could be displayed on the wall.

But the production of school reports can be much more advanced than that: Schools with optical scanners can allow pupils to reprint photographs from books or other sources, while advanced word-processing systems can produce tables and graphs and ...

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