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1. This link is toward Jennifer R.’s Task 1- What’s in your bag?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540jenniferr\/2021\/01\/15\/task-1-whats-in-your-bag\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennifer chose her music bag to share her contents and it contained many musical tools, instruments including a microphone and cables.<\/p>\n

I think Jennifer\u2019s experience is different than mine as it is a bag of one of her passions and hobbies.\u00a0 I really like that way that Jennifer shared that her narrative of her bag actually conflicts with the one that she projects to the world.\u00a0 Music is a different community in her life.\u00a0 I resonate with her experience in this as I feel that sometimes other things in my life also outweigh my priorities.\u00a0 Certainly, things that are more of a hobby or activity which I would like to pursue and practice more of (eg. playing the piano).\u00a0 Jennifer had a microphone in her bag and in my purse that I chose to share, I had a mask.\u00a0 These text technologies are in a way opposite in how we choose to communicate.\u00a0 Jennifer\u2019s microphone amplifies voice and enhance the volume in dialogue\/communication while on the other hand, the mask in my purse, muffles the voice and can make it much harder to communicate because we can\u2019t see someone\u2019s mouth moving.\u00a0 Being able to read someone\u2019s lips when they speak is very helpful in interpreting and understanding what someone is saying (not necessarily the content but the actual words themselves).<\/p>\n

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2. This link is toward Brendan Stanford\u2019s Task 4 Manual Scripts Assignment:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/etec540-bstanford\/manual-scripts?authuser=0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I selected Brendan\u2019s Task to link to because he chose the option to write a manual script and not the potato stamping, which I chose for Task 4.\u00a0 I wanted to hear about his experience and compare it with mine.\u00a0 I agree with Brendan that writing is a form of mindfulness.\u00a0 It is deliberate and there is intentionality behind it.<\/p>\n

    Our hands and minds are used to move objects. Typing on a computer is very tactile and both hands are being used whereas when handwriting, only one hand is being used to write. \u00a0With the left and right hand typing memorized keys for our fingers, our brain is challenged to mindfully write our context meanwhile tell our fingers which keys to type. When handwriting, I think muscle memory is still used, as it takes our muscles to form the letters with the tools such as, pens, that we use to write.<\/p>\n

    With the students in my class, I have observed their handwriting and each is unique (as with anyone\u2019s handwriting). \u00a0The variation of student penmanship had me wondering about what handwriting might mean for someone\u2019s personality.\u00a0 I find it very interesting that I can usually guess which students work is whose especially when they forget to write their name on their work.\u00a0 Their handwriting suits their personality in a way. \u00a0I did a brief search and came upon this article where a graphologist, someone who analyzes handwriting to determine personality, was interviewed and described what to look for in someone\u2019s handwriting when determining personality.\u00a0 There are many things to observe in someone\u2019s handwriting that determine their personality such as, size of letters, pressure of the pen, connection of letters and even how you dot your i\u2019s!<\/p>\n

    Here is the article:\u00a0https:\/\/www.insider.com\/what-your-handwriting-says-about-you-2014-7#dotted-is-<\/a><\/p>\n

    In thinking about the future of writing and it\u2019s evolvement, I was reminded of a Ted Talk that I once viewed about how our hands can be used for creative expression with computers.\u00a0 Extracting the points from this Ted Talk is that there is physical feedback where someone manipulates objects. This could be an example of what Bolter (2001) discusses as remediation<\/em> where we might be shifting from one medium to another in technology.\u00a0 As writing has evolved from handwriting, letter press and printing technology.\u00a0 This video offers an insight into how we might use our hands to express our ideas with objects on the computer interface.<\/p>\n

    If muscle memory in our hands is used when handwriting and typing then what other muscles or loss of memory might occur if we were to move toward this (the hands on technology) type of new technology?<\/em><\/p>\n

    Here is the Ted Talk link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/james_patten_the_best_computer_interface_maybe_your_hands<\/a><\/p>\n

    References<\/p>\n

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    • Bolter, Jay David. (2001).\u00a0Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print<\/em>[2nd<\/sup>\u00a0edition]. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      3. This link is toward Jennifer Li’s Task 5 Twine Assignment:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

      Task 5: Twine<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n