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[Neatorama] Is Cursive Handwriting Necessary? - Neatorama: Even though we can now sign documents electronically,the need to sign a legal document in cursive will likely never go away.Cursive is also nice for letters and notes,to others,of a personal nature,if you know the recipient can read your handwriting.In school,we were taught that cursive flows easier and quicker;but alas,I look at my notepad and I see that I always print my notes.As for historical documents,have you ever tried to read documentation from prior to the 19th century?Just as spelling,grammar,and syntax has changed over the previous centuries of written language,so they will change over the next 150-200 years,making the written (and typed) word difficult to read and understand.

[Selective & Arbitrary] lauredhel | Font hate: My handwriting (when I use it) tends to vary between semi-neat block capitals (for anything other people have to be able to read) and a combination of about three different font styles (the printing I learned in years 1 - 3, the "running writing" learned in years 4 - 6, the Palm script I learned to scribble for the Palm Pilot, and at least two calligraphic fonts which sneak occasional letters in here and there as required) which I use in my writing notebooks, university lecture notes (where it's mixed in with a personal shorthand as well, making it even less legible to outsiders) and anywhere else where I'm writing primarily for myself.

[The Rapid eLearning Blog] How to Create a Visual Design for Your E-Learning Scenario » The ...: Then I copy that sticky note to subsequent slides, adding tidbits as I go. As the learner progresses through, the sticky note never moves, although my content underneath it changes, giving the feeling that the sticky note is literally on their display.

[Educational Origami] Pens or Pencils | Educational Origami: The keyboard strangly offers the opportunity to use more visual features, Fonts, bold, drop caps, Shaping, Size, editing etc For the years to come I would agree that being unable to write by hand would render us illiterate in too many situations. Students I wonder may argue otherwise;

[Larvatus Prodeo] Not-so-evil internets: making kids better writers at Larvatus Prodeo: I am not sure, but the teaching of handwriting (most subjects, in fact) seems to have improved substantially since I was in school. I helped with reading in my elder son’s kindy class a few years ago and was impressed with how quickly the kids were able to produce writing that was not only legible, but attractive.

[F+W Specialty's Blog] The Scrapbooker’s Handwriting Workshop (May 09): The purpose of the Scrapbooker’s Handwriting Workshop is to teach readers to make the most of their own handwriting. They will learn 20 different handwritten fonts that they can use on their pages and the bonus gallery of 50 layouts provides plenty of inspiration for altering the fonts and using their own handwriting in their scrapbooks.

[Family History UK Community Forums - Family Trees] Family History UK Community Forums FHUK - Cert. that is hand written: In regard to your certificate which you are having trouble reading, I spent some time learning Calligraphy, which has helped reading various documents especially the old ones. One suggestion is to use your local library and see if they have any books on Calligraphy which you could look at.

[MetaFilter] Futura vs. Verdana it ain't | MetaFilter: Between never having really grasped the Palmer method (my fifth grade papers still show a mix of both block and cursive in spite of the fact I was supposed to be writing in cursive and ink exclusively at that point for at least two years) and the fact I was trained to letter in both drafting and architectural styles has rendered my day to day scribble into a gelatinous mess that spills across all lines and into margins like a movie monster from the fifties.

[tripwire magazine» tripwire magazine] 70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases ...: Hand writing is something we all know very well and have been working hard to learn in school, it may bring up emotions, memories, images that a plain verdana or times roman can't compete with. While hand written fonts may be .... 70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases Webmaster Crap » Blog Archive » 70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases ”¦ Says: September 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm. Read more: 70+ Seriously ...

[MyInkBlog Feed] Design a Realistic Chalkboard in Photoshop: Write a couple of large words on the board. These will serve as some old writings on the board that weren't quite erased fully.

[MetaFilter] Makes writing letters a breeze. | MetaFilter: I work in the kind of office where we get regular letters and faxes hand-written in what I call "Disturbed Sans Serif", that really recognisable handwriting of the usually elderly, often semi-literate and generally angry-at-the-world correspondent. Sometimes it's block capitals, more often it's careful primary school pre-cursive, very rarely it's copperplate.

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