{"id":568,"date":"2009-09-16T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T03:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=568"},"modified":"2009-09-16T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T03:34:26","slug":"text-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/16\/text-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Text and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Boardmaker\" src=\"http:\/\/i239.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff308\/Munchkin360\/Autism%20Disability\/symbolsexample.jpg\" alt=\"Example of Boardmaker software\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is text? Is its classification still the same as it was when I was in school? Or my parents?<\/p>\n<p>Do we allow for the shortened, grammatically incorrect form of language to be applied to this same category? The kind that is seen in countless text messages or quickly written emails?<\/p>\n<p>Text comes in many forms, including the use of braille for those who have vision difficulties.<br \/>\nWhen I think of text and technology, I think of my students who cannot write. Those who use software that conveys an image or multiple images into a logical sentence or story.\u00a0 Boardmaker software, as shown above, is one example of how one can express their thoughts, and feelings without using the conventional alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Though I must ask: Is it still text?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is text? Is its classification still the same as it was when I was in school? Or my parents? Do we allow for the shortened, grammatically incorrect form of language to be applied to this same category? The kind that is seen in countless text messages or quickly written emails? Text comes in many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,4972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}