xo activity idea

Bastien bastienguerry at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 3 17:15:48 EST 2008


Yifan <yifan.sun at students.olin.edu> writes:

> I had an idea for an activity, something like a write activity with a
> constantly updating spell checker that displayed spelling suggestions as you
> typed

When designing a spell-checker, we should keep in mind that the
spell-checker should always suggest correct spellings, and never
underline errors.  In this respect MS Word spell-checker (and a 
few others I tested) is just a disaster: it helps people remember 
errors.

-- 
 Bastien



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