The Connection between Writing and Technology :: Teaching Writing Education

The Connection between Writing and TechnologyThere be times when an idea pops into your head and immediately you need to write it cut or lose the thought forever. What is the first thing you crack? in all likelihood a pen or pencil and then a objet dart of paper, or even the nearest keyboard. These technologies are so common, we dont even construct them a second thought they are just there. With almost any household owning a computer we even tend to take them for granted. forthwith imagine these writing technologies didnt exist and that Henry Thoreaus father didnt perfect the pencil, what would you grab then? This is what I set out to do find a writing technology that isnt common today.At first, I thought slightly what our ancestors would have used and depending on how far back we go, this can array from a quill and ink to carving on stone. Looking round my house though, these things werent easy to find. So, I searched thru the yard looking for anything that might correspo nd paper. I kept coming back to the leaves hanging on the bonavist tree. I first pertinacious this had to be my paper. It was the closest thing to world flat and the leaves were large enough for my text. For my pen I tried some different tools. First, the obvious, I could use a stick. Then I decided to cut some of the needles off my pine tree and use them. With these I twisted them tight and then tied them with Cattail reeds from the pond. Just from the looks alone, I knew this had to be my pen. My ink was a challenge though. First, I tried to burn the upper side of the pen in order to produce ash. I figured this would be easy and would work in the same manner as a pencil. After much glowing, my porch smelled like a pine forest, but miniature ash was being produced. This led to another search of the yard and the discovery of my ink. I had found some wild grapes and knew this would be an easy fill in for ink.Once the grapes were crushed and the neighbors questions answered, I preceded with my new technology experiment. By burning the tip of my pen I had formed a perfect pip to write with. This was out of pure accident, but none the less a stroke of luck.