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Showing posts with label ASL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASL. Show all posts
December 15, 2011
Lab III: Joanne responds to Chrystene's writings
Joanne read my condensed version of The Big Living (<- link), the narrative of my experiences around the 'seizure events' which I posted to the blog after our last collaborators' meeting in October, and came up with something that this whole story seems to be yearning towards: namely, the concept of multiple realities which, in the end, become one inseparable cosmic whole. It was amazing to watch this and see that my 'script-bones' are coming to this same conclusion, and we have even independently come up with many of the same images to describe things.
Big Living/Big Dying is an ASL poem about three worlds. There is so much in here I would like to draw from! It's giving me tons of ideas already... thanks, Joanne!!
Big Living - Big Dying
by Joanne Weber
by Joanne Weber
October 30, 2011
ASL and Signing aids online
These websites feature links to hundreds of short Quicktime movies, searchable alphabetically, that illustrate a number of singular signs used in ASL. Great bookmarks for some quick look-ups for those of us who are just learning about this amazing language.
This old ASL Browser website has been around awhile...
Joanne also directed me to this Signing Savvy website, which seems to be an improvement on the ASL Browser in many ways.
Note that ASL is a language with its own grammar and syntax; using these signs in place of English words within the grammatical structure of English is not the same as speaking American Sign Language, but is actually what is known in the Deaf community as 'signing English' which is not really too popular! ;)
Still, I have found it useful to gain insight into how signs are formed using various hand-shapes. For example, check out the "R" hand-shape: first two fingers crossed. Now see the sign for "flower" and compare with the sign for "rose." The sign for "rose" is the sign for "flower," signed with an "R" hand-shape.
Joanne, if you have any other/better links with videos, please feel free to share!
If the embedded links above don't work, copy/paste these into your navigation bar:
ASL Browser: http://aslbrowser.commtechlab.msu.edu/browser.htm
Signing Savvy: http://www.signingsavvy.com
Adventure!!
This old ASL Browser website has been around awhile...
Joanne also directed me to this Signing Savvy website, which seems to be an improvement on the ASL Browser in many ways.
Note that ASL is a language with its own grammar and syntax; using these signs in place of English words within the grammatical structure of English is not the same as speaking American Sign Language, but is actually what is known in the Deaf community as 'signing English' which is not really too popular! ;)
Still, I have found it useful to gain insight into how signs are formed using various hand-shapes. For example, check out the "R" hand-shape: first two fingers crossed. Now see the sign for "flower" and compare with the sign for "rose." The sign for "rose" is the sign for "flower," signed with an "R" hand-shape.
Joanne, if you have any other/better links with videos, please feel free to share!
If the embedded links above don't work, copy/paste these into your navigation bar:
ASL Browser: http://aslbrowser.commtechlab.msu.edu/browser.htm
Signing Savvy: http://www.signingsavvy.com
Adventure!!
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