I will be teaching a three week receptive fingerspelling class this summer June 2 - 23, Tuesday and Thursday nights at Tulsa Community College. Iam sure you can imagine that three weeks is not enough time to change your life.
But I hope to introduce you to enough different ways to consider and proactice your recepive skills to get you excited about changing your own life.
The text book I willbe using is called: Master ASL! Fingerspelling, Numbers & Glossing 2006 Jason E Zinza.....(ISBN# 1-81133-21-4. We will also review four other systems presented on video or dvd.
If you are nearby, come on and sign up. It'll be fun.
Oh yeah, and most of it is taught in ASL. So it can also be good general practice.
Hope to see you.
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Friday
Thursday
Joys of Technology
Many people have asked me ways to improve their ability to read ASL. I remember asking my then teacher the same thing (don't ask how many years ago.) She teased me with the response "marry a deaf man." Of course that would make me an expert at reading him, one would hope, but not necessarily help with a wider variety of signing styles.
Now there are so many options at our browser-tips.
Just do a search of You-tube. I use the key words "deaf vlog" and a slew of things show up.
Of course, not all of them will be perfect signing samples - and not all of them give you a transcript of the content to compare to. But spend some time with your mentors and catch up with what is important to the deaf vloggers.
Not only will your reading skill improve, you just may learn something.
Now there are so many options at our browser-tips.
Just do a search of You-tube. I use the key words "deaf vlog" and a slew of things show up.
Of course, not all of them will be perfect signing samples - and not all of them give you a transcript of the content to compare to. But spend some time with your mentors and catch up with what is important to the deaf vloggers.
Not only will your reading skill improve, you just may learn something.
Wednesday
Back from vacation
It was both too long and too short. Too long because I get tired of eating out (!) and sleeping in strange beds - and some are stranger than others. My favorites have to be those that list to one side or are taller at one end than the other. but I digress.
The too short part is how long it takes to let go of the daily grind and just relax. When I relax I actually remember to dream a bit. And when I dream a bit, I come up with new ideas of what we can do as a business to benefit the profession.
So keep an eye open in a few months - we have hope the new website will be easy to use and have features for people to take advnatage of wherever they and their browsers go. Additionally, next week I am presenting an overview of Demand Control Schema and Ethics of Care at the Oklahoma Association of the Deaf Gala Celebration, June 5 in Oklahoma City. Hope to see you there.
In the meantime, here is a fun little video I enjoy for the humor of it. Hope you do too...
"The Mom Song" with ASL interpretation
The too short part is how long it takes to let go of the daily grind and just relax. When I relax I actually remember to dream a bit. And when I dream a bit, I come up with new ideas of what we can do as a business to benefit the profession.
So keep an eye open in a few months - we have hope the new website will be easy to use and have features for people to take advnatage of wherever they and their browsers go. Additionally, next week I am presenting an overview of Demand Control Schema and Ethics of Care at the Oklahoma Association of the Deaf Gala Celebration, June 5 in Oklahoma City. Hope to see you there.
In the meantime, here is a fun little video I enjoy for the humor of it. Hope you do too...
"The Mom Song" with ASL interpretation
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