Linda - Turns out my undergrad is in Computer Science (I joke that it has expired) but my company still does lots of technical training. I love your ideas for 'making it real'. Here's a fun way to teach MS Word, or Publisher or something creation oriented - have students type their favorite movie on the screen (for example), then move to the next workstation (kind of like musical chairs) and type something else, then on and on until they are back to their own machine. It's very fun and you can use it to emphasize different functions (for example, add clipart, wordart, etc. Lou