Handwriting recognition

[leiafee]

I switch the handwriting recognition on when recording suggestions and answers from the class during a whole group exercise/discussion.

It makes them more legible and allows me to move them around, rearrange them on the board etc, much more easily and quickly than leaving them as annotations.

(needs a bit of practice beforehand to check the board recognises your writing well enough to do this without gigging hysteria setting if it keeps misrecognising things!)

[Margaret Allen]

To move this suggestion onto another activity/suggestion. I love the idea of having a "notepad" as a container which means I can add all those words and then if need be move them in one action to another page.

Choose an image or just a square and give it the property of being a container and then as you create your words add them to this object.

Fantastic to help children move concepts/ideas from one page to another. +wave+

This would also work well if you are building up a way of addressing a problem so that you end up with a cumulative set of instructions which have been taken from several pages.[clap]

[simongreen]

Here's a tip for handwriting recognition:

Don't hog the Recognition tool! Students love using the Recognition tool - it particularly encourages younger learners to write clearly.

How do you use the Recognition tool/handwriting recognition?