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Valerie Sutton wrote:
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type="cite">SignWriting List
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January 5, 2007
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Jonathan from Honduras wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">My wife wants to participate along with me.
We will both do the lessons though she may not participate actively in
the discussion because she doesn't know very much English. A few of my
other students are thinking of joining, can I get back to you on that
on Monday? They won't be commenting either but I will post their work
here and I will let them know what everybody had to say about their
handwriting.
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Yes, of course your wife and students are welcome...
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Do they already know how to read basic SignWriting documents? It is not
a requirement, but it will help!
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You can read SignWriting Children's stories in our Library.... Even if
it is in another sign language, like ASL, it still will give you a
little experience with reading SignWriting symbols before starting the
course...if there is a symbol you do not know, you can look it up to
learn more about that symbol...or ask us on the SW List to explain
it...
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SignWriting Library
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signwriting.org/library">http://www.signwriting.org/library</a>
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I will assume, in this Handwriting course, that participants already
know the SignWriting symbols themselves...
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This course will teach how to shorten the writing of symbols you
already know...
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So if your students are beginners in SignWriting, they may find this
course a little overwhelming...
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My students did the first lesson with us. As you mention, I think it
is a bit more than what they might be really ready for. They had a
hard time dealing with the fact that one symbol was the computer symbol
and the other the handwritten one. I have attached some samples of
these. But they did enjoy themselves doing the lesson anyways even
though they didn't do everything the same way as you expect the rest of
your students to do it.<br>
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On the other hand, they are most welcome and maybe through this course,
they will choose to learn SignWriting in more depth, by using
SignPuddle to create their own signs...writing by computer can help
teach SignWriting and will help lay a foundation for handwriting
later...
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To create you own signs in SignPuddle, go to this web page and choose a
country....then click on the SignMaker icon on the left of the screen
and start creating your own signs...
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SignPuddle Online
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</a>
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Experiment with one of the empty SignPuddles...like the one for Nigeria
(for now)...there are no signs in that SignPuddle at all...so use
Nigeria right now to teach yourself how to add signs to the dictionary
and I will clean that up for you later ...we can make it a Honduras
dictionary later ;-)
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I was planning on adding some Honduran signs to the Nigerian dictionary
this week end but it looks like I might not have time. Hopefully some
other week end. Unfortunately I'm not connected to the Internet for
any length of time. It would be so nice to search the current puddles
and write SignWriting emails. But with my portable Thunderbird, I
should be able to make some signs at home then add them to the puddle
latter.<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS"><big><font color="#6633ff">Jonathan
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Val ;-)
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