Cursive Penmanship: Learn the art, improve your handwriting
What you'll learn
- Hear examples of how good handwriting can benefit you throughout your life
- Learn best practices for holding your writing utensil
- Use cursive paper to properly align each letter
- Watch as I write letters and words in cursive and walk you through them
- Practice tracing letters and writing them on your own
- BONUS: Earn a TURN THE WHEEL Penmanship Certificate!
Requirements
- Have access to writing utensils and a printer
Description
WELCOME!
Thank you for enrolling in this course! You will learn the endangered art of cursive handwriting, but more importantly, your handwriting will improve in general as your control of the pen becomes more disciplined. This course is for anyone who wants to improve their handwriting!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
As the National Penmanship Champion in 6th grade, I won $500 and a really cool pen. But more importantly, good handwriting has benefited me throughout my career as an educator and instructional designer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this course, you will:
Hear examples of how good handwriting can benefit you throughout your life
Learn best practices for holding your writing utensil
Use cursive paper to properly align each letter
Watch as I write letters and words in cursive and walk you through them
Practice tracing letters and writing them on your own
TIME TO COMPLETE
This course can take between 1 hour and 5 hours to complete, depending on how much time you dedicate to practicing with the worksheets.
Who this course is for:
- People of all backgrounds may take this course to improve their handwriting
Instructor
Hi! I love creating online courses and instructional materials on topics I love. So far, I've written a statistics textbook (Street-Smart Stats: A Friendly Introduction to Statistical Research Methods) and created an introductory chess course, a penmanship course, and an algebra course that focuses on topics that are essential in understanding calculus.
To actually pay the bills, I run an instructional design consulting firm, TURN THE WHEEL, that helps organizations create digital learning experiences for their clients, customers, and workforce. These courses have much larger budgets than the ones I make by myself. For one thing, we do professional video shoots rather than filming on my iPhone, as I've done for my own personal courses.
I love both creating my own courses--my side hobby--and working with big organizations. I love having the creative control to design curricula on topics I'm passionate about, and I love working with people to design courses that meet their needs (and learning a lot from the subject-matter experts with whom I collaborate).
Another side project is creating a mobile learning platform that anyone can use to both create and take courses directly from their phone. I'm hoping this will empower people all over the world who don't have computers to create learning materials that will benefit their local communities and beyond.
I'm really passionate about online learning, and am especially excited to see how VR and AR revolutionize the way we learn.
Thanks for reading!