HYPERCARD's availability and accessibility place a new power in the hands of educators everywhere that is, teachers can design hypertext applications for their own classrooms, thereby adapting technology to fit their particular priorities and philosophies. Still, while the new technology shines with democratic promise, rendering possible the dream that teachers can take an unprecedented role in shaping how computers are used in their classrooms, comparatively little has been done for teaching English with HYPERCARD. There are exceptions, to be sure--perhaps most notable are Glynda Hull's recent efforts to create multimedia databases for use by underprepared college writers (Hull, Greenleaf, & Wayman, 1989; Hull, 1989--but for the most part, student writers (and their teachers) are still using the Macintosh lab for word processing alone.

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