-close to the lives of these students. The project "gave them a tool and
-empowered them to be able to both understand it and talk about it,"
-Barish explained. That tool succeeded in creating expression—far more
-successfully and powerfully than could have been created using only
-text. "If you had said to these students, `you have to do it in text,' they
-would've just thrown their hands up and gone and done something
-else," Barish described, in part, no doubt, because expressing
- themselves
-in text is not something these students can do well. Yet neither
-is text a form in which these ideas can be expressed well. The power of
-this message depended upon its connection to this form of expression.
+close to the lives of these students. The project "gave them a tool
+and empowered them to be able to both understand it and talk about
+it," Barish explained. That tool succeeded in creating
+expression—far more successfully and powerfully than could have
+been created using only text. "If you had said to these students, `you
+have to do it in text,' they would've just thrown their hands up and
+gone and done something else," Barish described, in part, no doubt,
+because expressing themselves in text is not something these students
+can do well. Yet neither is text a form in which these ideas can be
+expressed well. The power of this message depended upon its connection
+to this form of expression.