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What is Linguistic intelligence?
Students who are "word smart" have well-developed verbal
skills and
sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words. The "word
smart" student learns best through language including speaking,
writing, reading, and listening. They use language to express what is
on their minds and to understand other people. They are able to
explain, convince, and express themselves verbally or in writing. They
enjoy writing and creating with words.
Students with strong verbal-linguistic intelligence enjoy, and have
success, working with Web development tools, which can be incorporated
into lesson by assigning writing projects with the final presentation a
web page for sharing a poem, myth, legend, news article, word
processing (OpenOffice writer, Gedit) - writing, rewriting, process
writing [brainstorming, listing, review terms, writing definitions,
listing ideas, writing a video script], PDF files, Discussion lists and
forums - discussing, debating, chats, reading and interpreting web
information, electronic reference tools - encyclopedia, dictionaries,
CD-ROM Interactive books on CD, e-books, and text-based software, voice
annotation in word processing, Using comments in word processing,
desktop publishing (Nvu, Fckeditor) - the text aspect, bookmaking,
desktop presentation (slide shows) - the text organization aspect,
story-creation software (poems, essays, letters), multimedia authoring
(EClass.Net*) - the text aspects, Audio recorders and digitizers -
recording oral histories and interviews, video recording - text aspect
[storytelling, news program, interview, scripting, choral reading,
retelling, speaking, debating, dramatizing]. *EClass.Net project is an
open source toolkit for designing, managing, building and delivering
learning via computer or the Internet.All of the applications provide
intuitive, easy to use interfaces, run on Windows, Mac and Linux, are
free to use, modify and redistribute, and are customizable for those
that need it.
Nvusoftware,
available for Windows and Linux, comes with easy to use instructions,
and menus common to almost all applications.
Nvu also has an
online wiki for finding out more about the program.
FCKeditor HTML
text editor brings
to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like
MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation
on a computer. Check out this page for
a demo
The follwing pages contain material from Technology and Multiple Intelligences
1 ... 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - Next Page Tips for picking softwareThere is no one best way to find FOSS projects that will best serve your needs. There are several rules of thumb you can use to help you make informed decisions.
* Do you already have something that will do the job well?
* Does the program do what you want?
* Do you care about the ideologies behind free software and open source software?
* Do you know other people that already use it?
* Is the current version over a year old?
* Are there user support mailing lists you can join?
