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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Mar 30, 2000 5:12 pm Subject: SignWriting Report, March 30, 2000 | |
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March 30, 2000 Dear SignWriting List Members: It has been a long time since I have written to the List. A lot has been happening. Here is a list of some of the recent events: 1. Teacher and researcher, Cecilia Flood and her Albuquerque teaching team from the Albuquerque Public Schools, presented a successful demonstration at the CASA (Community and School Awareness for the Deaf and Hard of hearing) conference, March 24th in Albuquerque. Their presentation: "SignWriting: A way to Read and Write Signs: A link to Bi-Literacy Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Elementary School Students" included Deaf students showing the audience how to use the SignWriter Computer Program. Deaf student Fernando even wrote the script for the presentation in SignWriting. The DAC hired a professional video crew to tape the entire proceedings. Because the tapes are on special media, I have not been able to view them yet, but later today I have an appointment with an editing studio to view all the video masters and make a plan for a new documentary entitled "SignWriting In Deaf Education". The documentary will be a series of videos in time, the first one being the Albuquerque presentation. Cecilia told us all that in time she will write a report to the SW List sharing with us what happened at the presentation, but it has been so terribly busy since, that I am sure that will take a little time... I think all the presenters deserve a little rest!! 2. We have been working out arrangements for another presentation in another school, and it has been time-consuming, but very interesting and very hopeful. 3. A deaf teacher of deaf children in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Nancy Cole, attended the Albuquerque presentation. Now Nancy Cole and her classroom will participate in the SignWriting Literacy Project! Nancy is fulfilling all the paperwork now, so you will be reading her reports soon. Las Cruces is a city in the southern area of New Mexico. It is not that close to Albuquerque, so this school is truly in a new area, and I am quite excited to donate to a new classroom. 4. I am printing the advanced materials for Dawn McReynolds and other teachers...the printing job ties up my computer so it is hard for me to write as much, while I am printing such volumes. 5. Increased requests for general information on SignWriting has become close to overwhelming. I wonder if placing all the brochures on the web as downloadable .PDF files would help? Do people know how to read .PDF files? And would they be able to print out in color? What do you guys think? 6. I have tons of technical questions to answer from Norway, on top of the questions already posted to the SW List. I have not forgotten any of them. The Albuquerque presentation and all the other tasks listed above have delayed my responses but they will come in time. 7. Joe Martin and I have been working on his comparison article between the Stokoe system and SignWriting. I have been the "web layout artist" on the job, making all of Joe's corrections for him. He just re-wrote one section, and once I have that posted and approved by Joe, we should be able to announce the article on the web. Joe did an excellent job, and I appreciate the comparison, since it taught me a lot too about the Stokoe system too. It is a long article. Would anyone want it as a .PDF file later? 8. I am also working on the Flemish version of the SignWriter Computer Program. A team in Flanders has gone to the great work of translating all the computer commands that appear on the screen into Dutch (Flemish), and now I have the job of adding those commands into the internal part of the software, so people can switch to Flanders and see Dutch words on the screen. Plus I am waiting for their fingerspelling handshapes so I can create their Flemish Fingerspelling Keyboard. Once I have that information, we will have a Flemish version! So for the moment I will close by thanking you all for your photos, your attached files of which there are lots, and of course all your wonderful email messages! Many blessings - Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l SignWriting List Help web page address coming soon ;-) |
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