I can remember in grade school going to the computer lab to work on typing skills. Ever since then, classes have always required writing to be typed in Word documents. Schools have been deeply affected by technology growth and so has children's educations. Along with Word, Excel and Powerpoint have also advanced for people to use in school and in work. My literacy of these programs is still pretty elementary, but I know enough to get by. I suppose I am just old fashioned and prefer to write out problems and homework assignments. I would prefer an actual book rather than a Kindle.
I could definitely relate to the idea Baron commented about how spellcheck would make people forget how to spell. I do well with spelling, but I am not as adamant about knowing how to write out different words because I know spellcheck is there. While spellcheck may make me a little lazy in that area, I tend to use the thesaurus a lot in Word. I really feel this expands my vocabulary. Sometimes texts and social medias like facebook seem to decrease my literacy to an extent. I am more knowledgable about technology with these but I get so used to writing informally. These make me need to rely more so on spellcheck because errors like "tho" cannot replace "though" in a paper.
The internet is really amazing and helps me to learn so much about various topics through Google searches. I think these types of benefits can outweigh the negative effects. I feel as though technology helps to feed my literacy but also detracts in some ways. I suppose it's the angle with which you look at all this.
Non-alphabetic writing I do is limited. Mostly I just take pictures and videos. Sometimes these get posted to facebook. I love music which I can feel a relationship to, so I would say the songs I download to my ipod would fit into my composing. I also like to play classical music on the piano. How I interpret the piece on the keys is composing, as well.
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