Five winning stories will be selected by a panel of judges, and the winning entrants will each receive an Amazon Kindle 2 as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.
Before using Dragon's Naturally Speaking, it would take me 30-40 minutes to grade a student's essay, and even then I still had to leave a lot of feedback out because of time restrictions. However, after I started using Dragon I found that I can dictate my comments directly into a student's digital essay, integrating with the word processor's "comments" feature. I have also set up shortcuts for frequently-used comments so I can speak a short statement and Dragon will place a larger, more detailed statement that I have prewritten into the paper. I have found that I can leave even more detailed feedback for my students using these methods and do it in only 20 minutes. This has greatly improved the level of writing instruction my students receive while saving me a great deal of much-needed time, which is always a challenge for composition instructors.