Thanks to all who are giving me advice on how to get started. I am leaving
on July 4th to take 18 youths to St. Louis for a national Lutheran youth
convention, and plan to use a lot of the travel time reading all about SW
(at least the information I already have) and to learn the ABCs and SW
movements. Then (hopefully) I should be better oriented.
The reason I want to do this is because of how well my mentally disabled,
profoundly deaf student does with this. She can actually read better than I
can, when the printed information is in SW. She knows less than 30 printed
English words.
I would really like to get the computer program that types the words in SW
for this student (and to save me time). I really feel this will be a break
through for my students.
Thanks for all the info. given thus far.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Cole"
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: Getting Started
> What I did, I printed out the SW information from the SW website. Then, I
> set up a meeting with my principal. I didn't understand everything
either,
> but I figured the kids and I would learn together. I did the Web report
> first then sent everything. After you do the Web report and determine how
> much materials you need, the Valarie will send it to you. I suggest
watching
> the video that she sends to you first. After I was teaching my students a
> signwriting lesson my administrator was observing. It was his idea for
the
> administration to get more materials. I am still learning, my it's more
fun
> when you learn with your students. I'm sure other people from the
> signwriting list will have better input than I do. This is just what I
did.
> Understand, I had doubts about SW too, but I saw how it affected my
students
> and that changed my thoughts completely. I also went to the SW workshop
in
> Albuq, too. So, that's my 2 cents again :) ha
>
> Smile
> Nancy
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