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Vicki Crisafulli, Business Teacher, Lee's Summit High School, Lee's Summit, MO

Ms. Crisafulli teaches Desktop and Web Page Publishing, Advanced Web Design, Computer Applications, Keyboarding I, and Personal Finance. Her two helpful classroom tips will work for any class you teach. Be sure to see her Teacher Created Web Site at http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/vcrisafulli/index.htm.

Display student work—Students love to see their work and the work of other students displayed. They also like to show it off to their parents. Provide a format for the projects to be displayed. Some of our projects are posted on the Web and some are printed and put on the wall or bulletin board, depending on the media source used.

Post score guides with Web projects—Posting the score guides with Web projects serves the following two purposes. (1) Students can refer to the guide even if they "lost" the original printed copy handed out the first day of the project. (2) Parents can see requirements and then understand the grade received by their student.

Mary Lou Vaniels, Business Teacher, Cave Spring Middle School, Roanoke, VA

Ms. Vaniels uses the following tips to help her students maintain their focus in her keyboarding class. She submitted these tips to us after reading March's issue on keyboarding. See below how you can have one of your tips posted in an upcoming issue!

To break the monotony of learning the keyboard, after the alphabetic keys are learned we do relays keying words in alphabetical order. I give them the category and they key in alphabetical order as many responses as they can. We do this in Word and use the auto numbering tool to letter our responses. Some of the categories are Boy's names, Girl's names, items found in a grocery store, brand names, and cities. To work on letter reinforcement, I give them the names of dinosaurs to key. To work on accuracy, we key our sentences from right to left.

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