Instructor's Big Book of Computer Activities

Client:

The Instructor Publications, Inc.

Audience:

K-8 teachers

Goal:

Provide tips, tactics, and ideas for integrating computers throughout the elementary and middle school curricula

Role:

Writing, project management, design, and production through camera ready

Selected as book-of-the-month by two educational book clubs.

At first glance, computers and the creative arts may seem an odder couple than Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. After all, what can an electronic number-cruncher bring to fields in which emotion is the basis of excellence, fluidity and nuance the prerequisites of successful expression? The answer is, a lot. The computer's essence is plastic in the truest sense of the word. It is more malleable than fingerpaints, less ephemeral yet as changeable as a piano chord. It offers a unique conbination of impermanence and replicability, encouranging that basic of all artistic basics: messing around.