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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Nov 3, 2001 2:50 pm Subject: Re: Signwriting Presentation at St. Petersburg College | |
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SignWriting List November 3, 2001 Dear SW List, and Bill! Thank you for this report, and for the presentation, Bill. You are really contributing a great deal to SignWriting...The gift of a CD for every participant certainly was generous of you! It is great to know that some of the Deaf participants expressed some interest too ;-) Your CD of the SW web site is very very useful, and will continue to be so - The other day I made a copy of your CD and included it in the package for the French Canadian SignWriting project...it works fine except when I make a copy it doesn't start automatically when you insert the copy into your computer...you have to find the index.html file...I suspect that is because I do not have the software you used to create the CD...or perhaps the issues of Mac and PC...who knows! No matter what, the CD will be a blessing for them... So your gift lives on... Val ;-) ------------- Bill Reese wrote: >I would like to report on the successful presentation of SignWriting at >St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida. > >I had been invited to make this presentation during their disAbility >Awareness event this past Monday, Oct. 29, 2001. > >During this half-hour introduction presentation, I was able to do the >following: > >1. Show them the beginning of the SignWriting website, >2. Hand out the brochures of the children's writings on the WTC tragedy >3. Accompany that handout with CD's of the SignWriting website >4. Give an bare overview of SignWriting: it's origins, it's current >scope, it's hopes. >5. Write a few examples of SignWriting and engage the audience into >guessing what signs they represented. >6. Provide a question and answer period. > >Thanks Val for the 10 brochures. I made 10 more and they were just >enough. I also handed out 20 CD's. > >The hall was modestly attended but it was a perfect audience. There was >engagement, a real curiosity, some limit knowledge beforehand, a good >question and answer session. I was thanked by a few of the audience and >there was some enthusiasm from a couple of the deaf students. > >Bill Reese |
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