<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>August 6, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><B>8 Ways To Learn SignWriting</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/catalog/member/mem005.html">http://www.signwriting.org/catalog/member/mem005.html</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002EFF" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/lessons"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>1. Free Lessons on the Web</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Free SignWriting Lessons on the web. Learn by yourself, on the web, with six different kinds of lessons....</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002EFF" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>2. Free Lessons on the SignWriting List</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Join anytime and start asking questions! Valerie Sutton and others will answer your questions and post the answers in a public forum on the SignWriting List, giving you feedback. You can also learn a lot from other people's questions on the List. List members are Deaf people, teachers of the Deaf, researchers on Sign Languages, and sign-students, from 40 countries. Although most messages are in English, you are welcome to post in any spoken or signed language and the messages will be translated for you...Don't be shy! We would love to hear from you on the List!</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/archive"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>3. Free Downloads of SignWriting Books</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The SignWriting Archive on the web is extensive, providing free documents such as the Lessons in SignWriting Textbook, an Introduction to SignWriting, SignWriting Basics, About SignWriting, and Literature written in SignWriting...all free. Browse through the Archives to see what documents will help you...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/downloads"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>4. Free Downloads of SignWriting Software</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Visit the SignWriting Software Downloads web page to download software that can teach you SignWriting through learning the how to type and produce dictionaries.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>5. Free SignWriting Dictionaries on the Web</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Visit SignPuddle and search 39 Sign Language dictionaries from around the world, or add signs yourself to the dictionaries, by using an ingenious little program right on the web, called SignMaker...Send email in SignWriting, translate spoken language gloss-words to written signs in SignWriting, create Sign-Texts, and place signs in other documents...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/catalog"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>6. Purchase SignWriting Books, DVDs & Software</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Visit our SignWriting Catalog on the web today! Order directly on the web or give us a call to purchase items: 858-456-0098 voice phone</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/member"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>7. Become a SignWriting Member</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Your $25 annual membership fee will give you a SignWriting printed Instruction Packet in the postal mail, plus one-hour private lesson in SignWriting with the system's inventor, Valerie Sutton, by videophone, voice phone, email, fax or web-conferencing.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/member/mem006.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>8. Private Lessons with Valerie Sutton</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For $25.00 per hour, get the individual, focused attention you need to learn SignWriting well. Valerie can teach you long-distance, by videophone, voice phone, email, fax or web conferencing. Start by becoming a SignWriting Member (see number 7 above). Then if you wish more private instruction, talk to Val about scheduling more lessons!</FONT></SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002EFF" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>Questions?<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Contact me anytime!!<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Val ;-)<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Valerie Sutton<BR></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002EFF">Sutton@SignWriting.org</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Center For Sutton Movement Writing<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> an educational nonprofit organization<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-002</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#276400" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">0</SPAN></FONT></P> </BODY></HTML>