online resources for Russian handwriting

[Janneke van de Stadt]

This year, in my first-semester course, I have focused a lot on  
calligraphy and it has really paid off!  Students take greater care (I  
don't let them print) and their writing is not only more legible, it  
often actually looks good.

I got myself a handy-dandy writing tablet from Rite-Aid, the kind they  
use in elementary school to teach kids how to write and which have two  
bold lines (for the base and the the top of the upper-case letter) and  
a dotted line in between them for the top of the lower-case letter.   
Like this:

_______________________

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_______________________


Using the vocabulary we learned in class, I made up a whole slew of  
calligraphy writing sheets and handed one double-sided one out every  
day.  My students really liked it and now understand that it is my  
expectation, not just a request, that they write neatly and according  
to certain guidelines.

My sincere thanks to John  Givens for the link to the Brown web page-- 
I love it!  If you have not checked it out, I highly recommend it.

Janneke




On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Irina Servais wrote:

> I teach Russian at the Foreign Service and Russian handwriting is  
> always a stumbling block for my students. Please add my name to the  
> list.
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Irina Tarnovskaya-Servais
>
> --- On Tue, 9/22/09, ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET>  
> wrote:
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> From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] online resources for Russian handwriting
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 9:05 PM
>
>
> I have several sheets of Russian handwriting prepared for students  
> many decades ago by a first wave emigre who
> graduated from a military academy in 1914.  He learned his  
> handwriting in the 19th Century, wrote with an actual
> ink pen, and was interested in calligraphy.
> I have these sheets as .jpg files, and would be willing to send them  
> to interested people, or, if there are too many
> requests, have them posted at some appropriate web site.
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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