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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Jun 1, 1998 8:12 pm Subject: Champion Schools | |
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Dear SW List Members: I am really enjoying working with Ronice Quadros from Brazil. Tomorrow we will have a special DAC meeting in her honor, which will also include another special guest...a Deaf man from Saudi Arabia...and we will be videotaping the meeting. It is a rare opportunity that deserves to be captured on video :-) I am planning to send out materials to the SignWriting Literacy Project participants shortly. I am sorry for the delay, but I hope to send them at the end of this week. The materials will include videos and booklets. The purpose of this message is to post an older message, written in early May, that never got posted. The message is an important one, because it discusses the use of SignWriting in a school recently. Here it is: >----------POST TO LIST---------- A message dated 98-05-07 15:43:12 EDT: From: Beejatwork Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 13:55:18 EDT To: SignWriting List Subject: news Hi Valerie Just wanted to share some news with you! I just returned to visit Champion schools where I did my student teaching I was done there just over a month ago.... I'm sure I told you about the SW unit we did at the HS they presented SW to the Middle school students who really enjoyed it! In the Deaf studies class I taught at the HS I presented your videos and booklets along with a few small activites to jet them thinking about the reasons for writing languages and to practice using SW. They each wrote a short article in SW and then developed a presentation to share with the middle school students. Posters of the basic handshapes and movements and then a great game WOW!! I went back today and they have made a bulletin board of SignWriting which includes among other things a count down to the end of school! Neat! I know this does not begin to touch on the masive implications that could evolve out of SW but awareness is the only way to spread anything.... Thanks for all the materials! Beejatwork _________________________________ Valerie Sutton :-) https://www.SignWriting.org Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA (619)456-0098 voice (619)456-0010 tty (619)456-0020 fax |
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