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By: tessawatson.com » ‘Txt’ V’s Keyboard: North Berwick High

tessawatson.com » ‘Txt’ V’s Keyboard: North Berwick High — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:26:05 +0000

[...] is a Maths Teacher and Glow mentor at the School. Over the weekend Robert had been questioning how Pupil writing would compare when using a ‘text‘ device to that of a keyboard. The use of ‘text’ communication is ever increasing. This ‘End-Of-Term’ experiment [...]

By: jonesieboy

jonesieboy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:47:43 +0000

That would be awesome Tess

By: Tess Watson

Tess Watson — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:25:26 +0000

As the Support Officer for East Lothian, I could pick up the device from Ewan and take it out to you at NB if that would help?

By: jonesieboy

jonesieboy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:43:29 +0000

Don’t think I’m going to be able to pick up the input device from Ewan before the end of term, so I’ll just have to do the experiment with real mobile phones. More realistic anyway

By: jonesieboy

jonesieboy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:38:15 +0000

It doesn’t surprise me that you can text quickly Alan – I’ve had the pleasure of seeing your nimble fingers playing the guitar. As an independent observer I can confirm that you are not 14, and almost certainly not female!

My texting is very poor. I use predictive texting, but get completely tangled up when the thing I am trying to text isn’t picked up by the system. Without predictive texting, I am even slower. I’ve never worked out how you quickly select 2 letters from the same key, and never cared enough to find out!

I can touch type though. Not really relevant, but I feel the need to make myself sound a bit less lame

I’ll let everyone know how the trial goes – provided I can sort out the loan from Ewan. Better email now…

By: Alan Coady

Alan Coady — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:08:48 +0000

I’m sure I can text faster (and neater) than I can write – and without looking, a feat I wouldn’t try if I had to try to write in a straight line. According to my birth certificate, I am neither 14 nor female. I don’t even particularly like texting.

I tried Cre8txt at the Scottish Learning Festival. The predictive element of it is not the same as the T9 system on most mobile phones. I wasn’t overly impressed by it – but they didn’t really give me a decent shot. I’d be interested to hear how it goes in class.

By: Tess Watson

Tess Watson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:55:17 +0000

I will be very interested to hear how you get on with this next week Jonsie.

Merry Christmas,

Tess

By: John Johnston

John Johnston — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:20:24 +0000

I think i read about a korean boy who can text in class in his pocket. My daughter seems to be able to text, talk and walk all at the same time. I am always hoping for a full-sized roll-up keyboard like the one ab blogs last week that plugs into your phone;-)
In my experience primary children are as slow as me at texting which stopped me doing much mobloging in class. I must try again this year as they get faster all the time.

By: jonesieboy

jonesieboy — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:22:57 +0000

Yes please – that sounds like an ideal last-week-of-term activity

By: Ewan McIntosh

Ewan McIntosh — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:59:11 +0000

Do you want a loan of a Cre8txt next week to have a competition and see?
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/connected/2007/09/18/cr8txt-texting-essays-not-writing-them/