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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jan 12, 2000 5:13 pm Subject: SignWriting in South Africa ;-) | |
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>involved in Sign Writing and experiment in it is rather simple: I >am an educationalist and anything that furthers the education of ANY >group of people deserves looking into. I do not know enough about >SW to be able to go deep into this but I think that the reason above >is enough? Well, well, if you are NOT convinced :) then I have >another reason that no-one can argue: I showed some samples of SW >(gained from the Internet) to the kids. The response was >overwhelming -- I cannot say NO to a response like that. Ralph >Waldo Emerson said, "The secret of education is respecting the >pupil" -- Something I like to aspire to. >Ingrid Foggitt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ January 12, 2000 Message to the SignWriting List Hello Ingrid, and welcome to the SignWriting List! Your introduction was excellent and very interesting, and I also want to welcome you and your classroom as participating members in our SignWriting Literacy Project...the first from South Africa! I am excited by what you told us above...the fact that you received a great response and interest in SignWriting from your Deaf students - that is the best news! I look forward to posting your letter from your school, and your first web report shortly. I will work on creating a new web page for your school. I hope that you will keep us informed from time to time on how it is going in your classroom. If you ever have photos you would like to share, and if the kids and their parents give us permission to post them, the photos always add human interest and the kids might even be able to seem themselves on the web - which is kind of neat! So welcome once again! Best - Val ;-) |
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