Wednesday July 16th

Today we looked at the writing process online through blackboard collaborate. I have done meetings online before so was aware of how this process would go. I don't mind online meetings and I can certainly see the advantage of having one but still think that face-to-face is much better.

In terms of the writing process.....wow. When we looked at the reading process I was amazed as to how much actually goes into it. I am blown away by how much more in depth the writing process is in comparison. Looking at all of the processes and skills that are required to work together in order for an individual to write makes it so much more clear as to why it can be a problem.

After looking at the process itself we then looked at forms of assistive technology that exists. I find it interesting to look at the low tech forms of assistive technology as many people do not usually think of them as being "assistive technology". In a previous blog post, I shared some images of low tech as well as some higher tech assistive technologies. 

I was also very interested in the fact that posture can have such a great effect on the writing process. This was not something that I really thought about. When it comes to typing, I do know that posture affects your ability to do so but never connected that back to writing by hand. 

We finished the day by talking about a few apps that we will experiment with tomorrow. 

I liked the idea of cowriter and its ability to predict words that will be used. I would like to investigate this app further on my own to gain a better understanding of its capabilities.