{"id":410,"date":"2007-09-11T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/11\/typing-or-writing\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T02:47:11","slug":"typing-or-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/11\/typing-or-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Typing or Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1351\/576558297_dcf09b3593_m.jpg\" height=\"222\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 222px\" \/>Two years ago I switched from a regular laptop to a tablet.\u00a0 At that point I turned in my dry erase markers.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t written on a white board since.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of my written communication is done using\u00a0a keyboard instead of a pencil.\u00a0 As a result, I think I may have\u00a0reduced my\u00a0learned ability to write.\u00a0 I have noticed when I use a pencil, I must concentrate more on simple tasks such as forming letters.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t lost my ability to write, but it is much harder to do than it used to be.\u00a0 I was in a meeting this week where I had to write everything down.\u00a0 It was difficult to take simple notes and keep up with the speaker when I couldn&#8217;t reflexively write the letter &#8220;e&#8221; on the paper.\u00a0 On top of that, my hand writing is barely legible.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that my typing skills have never been better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I switched from a regular laptop to a tablet.\u00a0 At that point I turned in my dry erase markers.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t written on a white board since. Almost all of my written communication is done using\u00a0a keyboard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/11\/typing-or-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,2],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}