Writing and drawing are two activities that can help promote literacy in young learners. When children draw pictures and write letters, they are also expressing their thoughts and ideas. Encouraging ...

Long, structured and sequential texts are valued by the academic world, sometimes at the expense of a more global vision. Imagination, visual thinking and subjectivity have little place in this ...

Comic books, graphic novels, sequential art narratives—call them what you want, but the words-and-pictures genre is here to stay. Slowly but surely, graphic novels are becoming more widely accepted as ...

Once upon a time, in the early days of iOS’ life, note-taking apps on the iPhone and iPad were, strictly speaking, for text-based notes. The original Notes app, pre-iOS 9 makeover, was designed for ...

I can remember back when graduating high school my mom insisted that I handwrite and sign thank you notes to everyone who sent gifts. I can understand now why she did that, but at the time I thought ...

Google has today released version 1.0 of its new “Handwriting Input” keyboard, which lets you manually draw the text you would like to type. The app works on both smartphones and tablets as you can ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is bringing its digital inking and handwriting features to ...