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Ants is a Tutor-Tech stack that I wrote a couple of years ago for my students to work on reading comprehension. NASA had been sending our class regular email during the Mars mission, but had some downtime while new spacecraft was in route to Mars. Previously, NASA redirected students' attention to Antarctica. This time it was the rainforest. Every week or so we would get an email chocked full of interesting stuff, but the reading level was way beyond what my students were able to read independently yet (I work with bright elementary students who just have trouble with reading, writing and mathematics). Well, I kept the concepts and brought down the vocabulary and phonetic structure to their level. The result is ANTS, a hypermedia stack for 128K Apple IIs. It's fun, reader-directed, and the students competed and enjoyed it so much that I tacked on even more questions at the end. You'll need a 128K Apple II, the Tutor-Tech Student Disk or Tutor-Tech Demo Disk (Free from Techware as a zipped PC download (www.techware.com/techware/software/ tt.html) or call for the actual disk (1-888-TECHWARE)) to open the stack. The program works with just the keyboard, but will recognize a mouse, joystick, touch window, Muppet keyboard and just about anything else that you want. Just activate what you want to use (ie: move the mouse) when the program is first booting up (not this stack, but the actual Tutor-Tech Student program) and you're set to use it. I made two versions of this program. The second version kept track of the students' scores. I used Tutor-Tech's Grader program to view the scores and plot their distribution. Small, Powerful, and Cool -- just like the ants in the rain forests. ][ Infinitum! Jay Edwards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GS WorldView Editor Notes: These Docs are also available in AppleWorks WP format with some really cute ASCII Art in them, from within the ShrinkIt archive, ANTS.DOCS.SHK.