Comments on: I hate writing but love to blog….why? http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Chambers http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/#comment-1367 Jonathan Chambers Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:22:22 +0000 http://thethinkingstick.com/?p=387#comment-1367 Sarah, Are you able to sequence letters better if you switch your monitor display to white-on-black (negative color display)? This link is primarily about assistive devices/features for students with "low vision," although I'm wondering if some of these ideas might help you decrease the effect of your dyslexia? <a href="http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/Populations/LowVision/printmodule.php" rel="nofollow"> If you want to check an example of support software that you can overlay right over the top of Windows, so that it provides you with constant spelling and speech support (and more) no matter what you're doing, then here's one: <a href="http://www.dyslexic.com/itemMatrix.asp?GroupCode=ReadWriteGold8&eq=&MatrixType=1" rel="nofollow">Dyslexic.com Read & Write Gold for PC</a> BUT it's rather expensive! What kind of computer do you have? Sarah, your persistence is already paying off! Sarah,

Are you able to sequence letters better if you switch your monitor display to white-on-black (negative color display)?

This link is primarily about assistive devices/features for students with “low vision,” although I’m wondering if some of these ideas might help you decrease the effect of your dyslexia?

If you want to check an example of support software that you can overlay right over the top of Windows, so that it provides you with constant spelling and speech support (and more) no matter what you’re doing, then here’s one:
Dyslexic.com Read & Write Gold for PC
BUT it’s rather expensive! What kind of computer do you have?

Sarah, your persistence is already paying off!

]]> By: Shaunigan http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/#comment-1366 Shaunigan Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:33:21 +0000 http://thethinkingstick.com/?p=387#comment-1366 Good writing is really about good editing. Too much time in school is spent on conventions--grammar, spelling--and not on helping people find their voice. Blogging is not writing in the sense that much of blogging comes from a very authentic, unedited perspective. We say what we feel. We mean what we say. We just do not always overprocess it. We have chosen our audience by virtue of the topics and themes we choose. Long before blogging, I lived in Bangkok. I wrote something called Scenes from the Big Weird. It was travel writing. Often I just sat down with Eudora, no spell check, and just started typing. Sometimes the letters came out in the right direction. Sometimes my fingers got their own dyslexia. My musings found a life on their own. I was published in Newspapers and sent to friend of friends. I felt flattered, but I wrote for me. Blogging is for myself. Some people just happen to come by. Blogging offers realtime, real world feedback. How many people actually comment on misspellings? Who cares if I end a sentence with a preposition? Perhaps monitors in somepeople's houses have red circles on them. People comment on the usefulness, the humour, the passion, the ideas. Call it what you will, Blogging is writing with an attitude. Yours. And yours alone. Sure someone might flame you, but you can delete their posts. Now I could proof read this. I could let it sit an daim to craft my thoughts better, but I like the rawness of this. Happy blogging. Good writing is really about good editing. Too much time in school is spent on conventions–grammar, spelling–and not on helping people find their voice. Blogging is not writing in the sense that much of blogging comes from a very authentic, unedited perspective. We say what we feel. We mean what we say. We just do not always overprocess it. We have chosen our audience by virtue of the topics and themes we choose. Long before blogging, I lived in Bangkok. I wrote something called Scenes from the Big Weird. It was travel writing. Often I just sat down with Eudora, no spell check, and just started typing. Sometimes the letters came out in the right direction. Sometimes my fingers got their own dyslexia. My musings found a life on their own. I was published in Newspapers and sent to friend of friends. I felt flattered, but I wrote for me. Blogging is for myself. Some people just happen to come by.

Blogging offers realtime, real world feedback. How many people actually comment on misspellings? Who cares if I end a sentence with a preposition? Perhaps monitors in somepeople’s houses have red circles on them. People comment on the usefulness, the humour, the passion, the ideas.

Call it what you will, Blogging is writing with an attitude. Yours. And yours alone. Sure someone might flame you, but you can delete their posts. Now I could proof read this. I could let it sit an daim to craft my thoughts better, but I like the rawness of this.

Happy blogging.

]]> By: sarah http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/#comment-1365 sarah Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:48:50 +0000 http://thethinkingstick.com/?p=387#comment-1365 Dear Jeff, I am going to try the info that you suggested. Thanks for comments on our blog! You can see other blogs what the class mates did at www.portablec.com then go to blogs and you’ll see all of the 3rd 4th and 5th grade blogs. We are group C my blog are under S.Do. I’m going to try the new art web site. And did you know our teacher got a grant in tech? Sarah Dear Jeff,
I am going to try the info that you suggested. Thanks for comments on our blog!
You can see other blogs what the class mates did at http://www.portablec.com then go to blogs and you’ll see all of the 3rd 4th and 5th grade blogs. We are group C my blog are under S.Do. I’m going to try the new art web site. And did you know our teacher got a grant in tech?
Sarah

]]> By: sarah http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/#comment-1364 sarah Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:52:11 +0000 http://thethinkingstick.com/?p=387#comment-1364 Dear Jeff, I am 11 and I have dyslexia I totally know how you feel. I can’t spell a thing. I just sometimes never want to write again. My friends write a page in 20 minutes when it takes me ~3 hours. I think the blog should have spell cheek. I’m writing this now and I have 17 words spelled wrong and 29 spelled right that’s pretty good for me. Do you have any other tricks that help you write that would be helpful? Last year I got glasses to help me read. It helped, I can now read chapter books! Sarah Dear Jeff,
I am 11 and I have dyslexia I totally know how you feel. I can’t spell a thing. I just sometimes never want to write again. My friends write a page in 20 minutes when it takes me ~3 hours. I think the blog should have spell cheek. I’m writing this now and I have 17 words spelled wrong and 29 spelled right that’s pretty good for me. Do you have any other tricks that help you write that would be helpful? Last year I got glasses to help me read. It helped, I can now read chapter books!
Sarah

]]> By: Chris Craft http://www.thethinkingstick.com/i-hate-writing-but-love-to-blogwhy/#comment-1363 Chris Craft Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:22:34 +0000 http://thethinkingstick.com/?p=387#comment-1363 This one too really hit home for me. Since I was a kid I have been typing reports and papers. This was back in the day when no one typed them. I began typing simply because my handwriting was (and still partly is) atrocious. Agreeing with you, I can type much faster than I can write. I think you hit on the larger issue, though, is that blogging is much less structured (mostly) than a typical piece of writing. Blogging is much more stream-of-consciousness than writing. As I am writing this, it is a direct connection from idea to publication. I think that is the blogging revolution. I would wonder how different your post would have been, or my comment for that matter, had we outlined it before writing it. This one too really hit home for me. Since I was a kid I have been typing reports and papers. This was back in the day when no one typed them. I began typing simply because my handwriting was (and still partly is) atrocious. Agreeing with you, I can type much faster than I can write.

I think you hit on the larger issue, though, is that blogging is much less structured (mostly) than a typical piece of writing. Blogging is much more stream-of-consciousness than writing. As I am writing this, it is a direct connection from idea to publication. I think that is the blogging revolution. I would wonder how different your post would have been, or my comment for that matter, had we outlined it before writing it.

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