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Ronald Zapien Date: Wed Jul 15, 1998 11:05 pm Subject: Re: ASL folk tales | |
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Valerie Sutton wrote: > > >Subject: ASL folk tales > > > >Valerie.... Hi there Emailing from much closer this time .... Sunny AZ I > >was just sitting here thinking and planning for the kindergarten class I have > >this summer and was wishing I had some place to see ASL folk tales that I > >could use with my students.... SW site might be a great place for that.... > >Just an idea I thought I'd pass on.. > > > >Thanks BJ > ________________________ > > Hello BJ! > Nice to hear from you again. Your suggestion comes at the perfect time... > > As you all know, last week we had a "focus week" on developing our computer > program. > > >From July 15th (today) to August 15th ...we are having a "focus month" on > completing and printing children's literature written in ASL in SignWriting. > > Then, at the end of August, I hope to mail the literature to the schools > participating in the SignWriting Literacy Project. For example, at Robarts > School, 40 children may be reading the literature in the fall. I am very > excited about the prospects of getting feedback from the teachers and > parents. > > Back on June 16th, I asked our Deaf staff members Darline Clark, Dave > Gunsauls and Kevin Clark to come into a TV studio to sign the stories on > video. We got a good video, and it is exciting to see the stories come > alive through ASL. This is what we videotaped: > > Goldilocks & The Three Bears > Cinderella > Snow White > Sleeping Beauty > Humpty Dumpty > and a poem entitled "One Harbor" > > Of course all of this literature will be written in SignWriting in book > form, but I am happy to have the supporting video, because I am planning to > create lessons where I show a picture from the video and then show how to > read the sign in SignWriting. Plus the videos will be useful in other ways. > If a teacher doesn't understand a written sign, they can review the video > to find the sign. Plus...much later ...we can create an interactive video > or an interactive cd-rom that shows one sentence signed in the ASL story, > and then shows how it is written in the ASL books. > > Of course, we have older versions of some of these stories written and > posted on our web site already, but those are samples for the web. The > stories for the schools will be a little different, because they will > coordinate with the video. > > In regards to true ASL folklore, stemming from the Deaf Community...that we > do not have yet...but that day will come! And yes...I hope to place new > literature on our web site in the future. > > If you are interested in participating in the SignWriting Literacy Project, > BJ...there might be that possibility. Right now we have funding for the > schools that are already accepted into the project. But, we are in search > of funding to support new schools. So I can place your school on a list for > future participants - > > Thanks for writing - > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Valerie Sutton :-) > > > > https://www.SignWriting.org > > 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 Hi Valerie: I'm just an individual interested in being a guinea pig. As an adult learning ASL, I am often challenged by the fact that my instructor sometimes has difficulty explaining why we do one thing one time and another a different time. I am trying internalize the language, but at times, particularly because it doesn't have an accepted written form, I can't flood my brain with pure ASL, so if you need a guinea pig, I'm at your service. Cheryl Zapien |
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