[Edu-sig] Interactive learning: Twenty years later

[Bill Bradley]

Seabrook, Richard wrote:
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> From:	Jason Cunliffe [mailto:jason.cunliffe@verizon.net]
> Sent:	Sat 6/28/2003 3:14 PM
> To:	Arthur; edu-sig@python.org
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> Subject:	Re: [Edu-sig] Interactive learning: Twenty years later
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>>Another is the rise of the mouse as a computer device.
>>People had the peculiar idea that one could deal with the world of
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> learning
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>>purely by pointing.
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> hmm.. I don't think the idea of mice was that could 'do everything by
> pointing'..
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> Of course not -- I'm sure you remember the initial development
> back in the 60s -- NASA/Ames? -- that created the mouse for
> one hand and the chord-player for the other.  We were supposed
> to learn one-handed typing with a set of 5 or 6 double-detent
> keys so one hand would always be on the keyboard -- never happened!
> Somebody re-invents the chord player about every 10 years or so --
> you can find a half-dozen for sale over the Internet for those with
> two-hand difficulties.  The mouse never was intended to be paired
> with the standard keyboard.
> Dick S.

	I wouldn't say that.  My IBM Thinkpad's Trackpoint is a very 
combination that allows me to use a mouse (well pointer) and keyboard 
without having to leave the home row or move my thumbs more than a 
quarter inch from the spacebar to click.  I wish I could find a standard 
desktop keyboard with one (Lexmark used to make them but they are NLA as 
far as I know)

	Bill