Handwriting course Stefans homework

[Kimberley Shaw]

I agree with point #4 - 2 lines doesn't feel like a flat handshape to me either!
Kim from Boston

On 1/16/07, Jonathan <duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> > Hi Valerie -- sw-listmembers -- participants of the SW Handwriting course
> --
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> >
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> > attached you find page 8  - homework of this Handwriting course
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Valerie -- here are my comments while I tried to follow your advice :
> >
> >
> >
> > 1)       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?
> >
> > 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 --
> >
> > 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.
> >
> I was wondering if you would care to share these worksheets with us?
> > 2)       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
> >
> > 3)       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 --
> >
> Yea this would be very useful!!!
> > 4)       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??
> >
> Same here.  It just doesn't fell like a flat hand anymore.  It's like
> two parallel lines.
> > 5)       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.)
> >
> > 6)       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?
> >
> It would be nice to have a grid or lines to practice in to get the
> proportions right.
> > 7)       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 - ;-)
> >
> > 8)       Can you add numbers to the pages or can you teach me how to add
> > numbers to a downloaded PDF ?
> >
> > 9)       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!
> >
> > 10)   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  -
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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. --
> >
> >
> >
> > I am looking forward to study the comments and feedback and to learn more
> > about Handwriting next week.
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a super  weekend
> >
> >
> >
> > Stefan ;-)
> >
> >
> We read the following
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> Hi
> Read
> Now
> Today
> Beautiful
> Goodbye
> Stefan
> Learn
> _________ (this one is just beyond our reading skills)
> Yes
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> Jonathan & Yolaine Duncan
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