Playing around with the 53 Paper App and their stylus- the Pencil
and wondered why I would ever want to type again.
The act of writing and drawing digitally, rubber tip on glass is somewhat sensational, even to an artist who appreciates the tactile surface of paper, canvas, and ink.
I can draw anything, make charts and convert all my visual thinking to a slide show, no more power point presentations, no more audiences reading line after line of typed communication.
I could hand write my reports, the personal touch, acknowledging the individual, expressing my excitement in strokes with irregular rhythm. But then I would have to learn to hand write again, relearn the art of writing, clear enough to communicate.
Makes you think - what if technology proceeded to take us to the next level where we hand wrote all our digital communications. We would need to introduce a new subject at school - the art of calligraphy.
Is this format that has been mapped out for me the word document, the lines of text within a program the way forward?. Or could we see in the future a room full of students writing with styli. Perhaps it;s closer than thought.
Something to think about as after using an Ipad for long enough, the regular plastic keyboard isn't doing it for me anymore.
It just isn't a well crafted process.
Course I could have handwritten this blog but i thought I would meet you in the middle, after all, teachers can have an aversion to handwriting ironically enough after marking infinite numbers of essays.
Selah.
