Baby Sign Language / Cute signing baby

an Open Letter for President Obama (ASL and Subtitled)

sign language: the [new] asl

Sign Language Oppression

Globalization of People's Education. No.1

WFD SPAIN 2007 Commission on Education

The OAD President's update

The Ministry of Education's response to the eight points policy

The Star Spangled Banner in American Sign Language - ASL

Visit http://ASLonDVD.com for songs beautifully performed in American Sign Language. Order a DVD copy of The Patriotic Spirit... Songs in ASL on DVD, and enjoy The Star Spangled Banner, America The Beautiful, and other great songs in digital quality worthy of your Home Theatre. The Patriotic Spirit DVD also includes Slow Motion Study Versions for each title.

The Kidsongs TV Show-- Sandra Carpe Interview

This is a season 1 question time interview with Sandra Carpe. Sandra is deaf and she was on the show to help the kids learn more about the deaf.

Deaf News (funny)

What deaf people really talk about...

- Team Antonsen

Interpreting Tidbits: Terrorism

I watched her video and I was not sure about her created signs for entry deaf commuity. I don't know her, maybe she found some signs from the books or their countries or herself?

Look at her video and link under video.

Sign Language Dictionaries have a difficult time keeping up with current events and modern day issues. Here are some Signs to help bridge that gap. For the full video, go to our website at gatecommunications.org.

Helen Keller

I found this old film inspired me about Helen Adams Keller, the deafblind American author, activist and lecturer almost 9 min.

There Once Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly!

www.aslsocial.info On the Last Saturday of the month at Borders Books on Rainbow and Lake Mead in Las Vegas, NV; We Sign Children's Stories at 11:00 am. This months story was this cute one by Pam Adams.

This is Presented and Interpreted by The American Sign Language Social

Comments Welcome!

Summer Nights from "Grease" performed in American Sign Language

Excellent production, great actors, very cool video.

ASL I Want to Hold Your Hand

American Sign Language talent show 2007.

Song: I Want to Hold Your Hand
By: The Beatles

Sign Language Son of a Preacher Man

Made this video for a friend - it's Son of a Preacher Man in British Sign Language (BSL) - more stuff like this on www.zombiecoterie.com - I know it's not perfect, but it's for a friend!

American Sign Language Tutoring

American Sign Language Tutoring

We are happy to announce our ability to offer American Sign Language tutoring via our HardcoreASL.com website. We are able to offer virtual ASL tutoring and in-person tutoring. The choice is all yours!

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More Learning ASL

More Learning ASL

By Dennis | May 16, 2007

Attempting this mostly on my own, I don’t have time for a class right now and only one native signer to help (who I don’t want to drive crazy), is definitely a challenge. I bought six books the other night. Various methods and types of learning in each of them. Some explain grammar and sentence structure, which is very helpful, and others concentrate on signs themselves. I think the combination will go a long way to getting me started successfully.

I’m noticing that the structure of ASL is much easier than English. I know that sounds totally opposite of what should be expected, but I tend to think in simple terms, ideas, rather than full sentences. This will help me grasp the proper way to sign, since I kind of do it anyway. The part that will not come naturally is adding the body language and facial expression required to properly express things. I generally speak evenly and with little expression.

One book doesn’t even really go into the signs so far, it shows you them in drawings, but doesn’t get into detail. Instead, it concentrates on word order, grammar, and body expression first. I think that by making you go through the signs without explaining them, but rather using them to explain something else, it will make me learn them better. It shows you the signs, and then talks about why they are in the particular order, and what you should be doing with the rest of your body while making them. I like this approach. So anyway, I’ve started, now I need to find some sort of rhythm to keep me going.

If I can find a local Deaf organization which will accept me I can get much more practical exposure. I still haven’t found anything that looks promising and NYC is too far away for something daily or close to it.

In the mean time, I will continue reading the books, and bothering Ben when I see him. Maybe that way I won’t look like too much of a fool when I approach people to get involved. Either way, I feel confident this is something I can do, maybe not easily, but definiely eventually. Wish me luck.

Dennis

If you want some comments then please go to The Talkie's blog

The Denver Post - YouTube U., The Virtual Professors

The Denver Post - YouTube U., The Virtual Professors

Demos from science experiments to shirt-folding bring expert status to amateur instructors.

By Michael Booth
Denver Post Staff Writer
05/14/2007

Video may have killed the radio star, but YouTube has transformed dozens of self-described geeks into celebrity how-to instructors.

The weird-science guy from Ohio.

That St. Paul guitarist who knows all the complex chords for Hmong rock songs.

Those, um, multitalented Brazilian women who can swing their tassles in opposite directions.

You can learn just about anything at the University of YouTube. Cooking classes, computer instruction, foreign-language lessons, homework help, it’s all there, by amateur instructors eager to demonstrate everything from sign language to shirt-folding.

Video sites now allow enthusiasts the world over to share their esoteric knowledge with a potential audience of millions. Talent and circumstance occasionally pluck these natural-born teachers from obscurity to an Internet prominence they never dreamed of.

“I’m getting 200 to 300 e-mail messages a day, just on my YouTube account,” said Greg Kopec, an Ohio computer-networking expert whose series “Do Try This at Home” has become a YouTube favorite.

YouTube editors chose Kopec’s third novelty-science video - balancing forks and a toothpick on a drinking glass, then setting the toothpick on fire - as a featured pick. Within days, more than 74,000 people had watched his 2-minute, 50-second trick.

The how-to videos can be a lively resource for fellow amateurs seeking a specific skill. Short Internet videos are perfect, for example, for demonstrating basic guitar chords to new students. A St. Paul man under the moniker “Stainmeister” gets rave reviews for his guitar demos, which he launched a year ago to promote his native Hmong music.

“If you want to find the chords to, say, music by U2, all you do is Google ‘U2 chord’ and voila!” said Valeng Cha, whose day job is director of the Center for Southeast Asian Research and Education. “But what if you’re Hmong, love Hmong music, and want to learn how to play your favorite Hmong tunes?”

More than 13,000 people have watched Cha’s first posting, chords to a song by the most popular Hmong rock band, The Sounders. He’s now posted 28 other how-to videos, and they’ve been watched more than 152,000 times. Last time he played at a karaoke bar in St. Paul, a stranger came up and asked, “Hey, are you Stainmeister, the guy with all those YouTube videos?”

“I am fairly shocked how YouTube has exposed my ‘hidden talents’ to the world,” Cha said.

Free web videos also give fans the chance to learn from professionals whose work they already admire. The lead guitarist for the acclaimed Austin band Mother Truckers, Josh Zee, has posted brief lessons in country and blues guitar riffs that serve as both savvy publicity and gifts to the audience. Rockabilly legend Brian Setzer can be found giving picking seminars on outtakes from Japanese television.

Standing in front of the WorldWide Classroom, of course, also subjects every wannabe teacher to masses of abuse. The video “How to Get Away From a Carjacker” was viewed more than 300,000 times, with more than a few hecklers observing, “They should rename this ‘How to Get Shot During a Carjacking.”‘

Another hazard of web popularity is the same drawback of “interconnectedness” seen by indie rock stars, fiction writers or other artists who promote themselves by speaking directly to the public. Being popular with “the little people” can be a lot of work.

Kopec spends up to an hour and a half boiling his science tricks down to a 4-minute video, then faces daily requests for more tricks. And those 200 to 300 e-mails keep pouring in daily, expecting replies.

He’d love to turn the videos into some kind of paid “Mr. Wizard” series, seeing as how his hobby is quickly becoming a chore.

“Teaching is my passion,” Kopec said. “But teaching doesn’t pay that well.”

Staff writer Michael Booth can be reached at 303-954-1767 or at mbooth@denverpost.com

Welcome to ASL Literature Vlog

Welcome to ASL Literature Vlog

ALIP = ASL & Literacy Instructor Program ALIP Students of George Brown College in Toronto will be contributing to this Vlog. continued

Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter - Wee Sign class is May 17

Wee Sign class is May 17

Herald Times Reporter

MANITOWOC — Holy Family Memorial is offering Wee Sign, a sign language class for children age 9 to 36 months and their parents.


The next session will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, at Lakeshore Pediatrics, 4303 Michigan Ave.

Participants will be taught the purpose of child sign language, frequently used signs and the sign language alphabet.

Families should bring a blanket for the floor and a quiet, non-battery-operated toy such as a set of blocks, a puzzle or stacking rings. Children should also bring a favorite book.

The class is taught by Paula Johnson, certified sign language instructor with Holy Family Memorial’s Pediatric Therapy Department.

The class also will be offered on Thursdays: July 19, Sept. 20 and Nov. 15.

The cost of the class is $20. For more information, or to register, call 920-320-2899.