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Inking on Web Pages - Discussion
Elliot Kirk A good non-education example (I worked in ed for 20+ years, ran an annual international workshop/conference on digital ink use in education for much of that time, and implemented three digital ink based 1-1 programs at schools in the US and Jordan, so I have strong opinions there--but this isn't that realm.) was a web article I was reading last night for a discussion group tomorrow. I ended up printing the article from the immersive reader view to get a better layout and plenty of white space just so that I could annotate it with comments and questions to bring to the discussion. I could have printed it to OneNote, but I don't really need to keep it after tomorrow and the extra steps involved to do that and then later delete it were more complicated than sending it to my printer. It would have been far better onscreen with my Surface and the multiple ink and pen options than with paper and a single highlighter and pencil. Assuming I could duplicate the screen and show different parts of the article side-by-side, paper really would have no advantage at all. Plus, being able to use external reference sites or programs (either side by side or just by app switching) on the device would be a big improvement. Especially if I could cut and paste either content or URLs onto the annotated web page from those resources.