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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Valerie – sw-listmembers – participants of the SW
Handwriting course – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>attached you find page 8 - homework of this Handwriting course<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Valerie – here are my comments while I tried to follow your
advice : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>I asked myself –
thinking of my students and of me when I had been a 6 year old boy – does
it make sense to write carefully and slowly in the beginning instead of just focus
on speed? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>At my age – speed is not my first
interest in Handwriting – but rather the option to be able to take notes
in a reasonable time if no computer is asside – or if I wish to make a
first draft of video-transcription – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>So I guess I will retry to write everything
with more accuracy – even as if writing a calligraphic piece of art –
For my first grade students I even developed worksheets that allowed them just
to write upon given lines and letters in order to practise the keystroke again
and again in a guided manner ... I think of same materials for SW Handwriting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>In order to understand the
Handwriting procedure I had to turn several time to your posted lessons –
showing lifelike drawings of handshapes – SW printing and SW Handwriting
aside. Thanks for that – it is a great support <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Within this context – I bet
that a rather stupid repetition of every handshape in all 96 variations would
be a rather helpful task to become familiar with how to write ... I would
prefer to have access to a table of clearly written handsymbols of the six
basic hand shapes we used to talk about – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Flat hand with no lines
(parallel to the floor seems not that easy to read for me – hm – somehow
I feel uncomfortable with this solution – how about others?? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>5)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>What about arrow –
writing. I am looking forward to learn about your ideas how to distinguish
between right hand/ lefthand – both hands arrows (Within this excercise I
watched myself to neglect the fill for the right hand movement and even wrote
the arrowhead – which is used in printing for “hands as unit”
– for right hand movement – Especially circle movements ( like in
sign are of particular interest to me.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>6)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>When I started to create
TT-Fonts for publishing I tried to understand your idea bind “symbol –
construction” At that time I measured every sign and compared the
lenghts of the lines and the proportions of different symbols. In the end I understood
several principles that are really interesting regarding lenght and width of
the differen symbols. Who knows how much time you spend on this question or
whether you felt guided by DOS – pixel – graphic –
possibilities? Anyway while trying to do my homework I understood that there
are different proportions compared to printing- for example often I write the
circle for the head too small ... so I guess it will take time to develop a
kind of feeling for proportions in handwriting? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>7)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>It turned out that copying
printing to Handwriting repeatedly has been a neccessary until I felt able to
do the Handwriting without additional support. I guess that Deaf people –
fluent in their SignLanguage – will have not as much trouble to imagine a
visual representation of all the different possibilities of handshape and handorientation.
So back to practice of writing again and again 96 hand –tables - ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>8)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Can you add numbers to the
pages or can you teach me how to add numbers to a downloaded PDF ? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>9)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>What do you recommend for
scanning? The scanner offers different options – 100 dpi enough for our
purposes? Are you interested in the original page or just in what we wrote on
paper. The last option would allow us to scan a smaller area – less pixel
– minor bites! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>10)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Just imaging – sitting in
your house – doing this Handwriting it would be helpful to get your
feedback while you are going around and looking at my procedure – smaller
or big enough, too slow or quick enough, and to learn from others about their
ideas, problems and questions. So thank you soooo much for your time and
attention to do all this email-feedback and your website – design –
which is a standard of its own - congrats - <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I got photos from some participants and as I said before it is fun to
put faces to the names and lateron sign names. So everybody of this Handwriting
course is invited who is interested to get his own Handwriting and Printing
signname as a unique TT – Font to send a photo to me. – <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I am looking forward to study the comments and feedback and to learn
more about Handwriting next week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Have a super weekend <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Stefan ;-) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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