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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Oct 25, 1998 8:20 pm Subject: Re: SW Pen Pal Club | |
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October 25, 1998 My dear friends - Please excuse my tardiness in answering your very nice messages. I needed to rest a little, so this morning I opened my email box and found all kinds of nice messages waiting for me, including scanned homework pages from eager students! I really got a giggle out of the homework - one writer had written rows and rows of symbols down the page in columns, and had then scanned in the whole notebook page. The scanned file was then sent to me through email as an attached file. It was unbelievably clear. The picture showed the spiral rings of the notebook, the pencil marks and the efforts to make it look better. I felt like I was back teaching school - what fun! Beautiful work and many thanks for writing, and for sending me the pages. In regards to the SW Pen Pal Club, of course I am pleased to see the interest and I am glad people are already writing to each other. There are three things I never had time to share with you: First, to join....you are not required to place your street address on the internet. You can write to me and I can "connect you" with someone else privately. Second....if you do not know SignWriting, you can learn through the experience. You can take the lessons online and then try to write something. Or you can buy a SignWriting book and learn from the book. Or write in English to your pen pal and ask your pen pal to write a few signs and then explain them to you. And third...I was actually thinking of two different kinds of Pen Pal Clubs - one between the adult members of the SignWriting List, and a second Pen Pal Club between classrooms in the SignWriting Literacy Project. In the Literacy Project, children learning SignWriting could write to each other, and learn how to read and write signs through writing letters to other children, with the help of their teachers. So if you are a teacher, and your classroom would like to connect with another classroom, please write to me privately and we can try to arrange it :-) All my best wishes - Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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