Thing 19

I really wanted to look at One Sentence, but it's BLOCKED. There were a few others I tried that were also BLOCKED. I hate when things are BLOCKED. Especially when they are useful and are not all something that should be BLOCKED.

[Stepping off of soapbox.]

So I ended up, completely by accident, exploring fuzzmail. With fuzzmail you basically type and email in the box and fuzzmail records your typing and your recipient gets to see the whole thing. It's kind of weird because you get to see all the typos and all the mistakes. They say that it makes email better because it records the emotion and makes email more personal (they use the example of love letters, personal as opposed to business, etc.). I was thinking about it for Creative Writing (which is also why I wanted to look at One Sentence). We could talk about adding emotion to writing and use fuzzmail as an example of one way to do that.

When the email plays, it looks like a video and you can do really interesting things with it. You could use it as a way to present information--if it would record longer, it cut one of my emails off. fuzzmail may be on to something--this could make writing a completely different experience. It would be great to expand the time frame and turn it into a word processor that shows your revisions in real time when you press play. This could be a valuable learning experience for some students.