<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>December 14, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Anny!</div><div>THANK YOU very much for this report about your SignWriting meeting in French-Switzerland in November, and also the work you are doing as a SignWriting association...I really enjoyed visiting your web pages. I love the photos with your Sign Names written directly beside the photos. It is quire impressive to see the serious work you are doing...and I hope the Bible translation project starts to use SignWriting...since it is already being used to write Bible passages in several other sign languages, such as ASL, Catalan Sign Language and Maltese Sign Language...</div><div><br></div><div>I have had several invitations lately to meet people on Facebook and I confess I have not gotten used to Facebook yet, but I look forward to doing that over Christmas...thank you for the invitation to meet on Facebook!</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to fix a SignPuddle button that needs to be translated better into French, but I need your help to write to me privately to tell me exactly what I need to do...I apologize for my confusion but now is a good time for us to accomplish that little task...</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the lovely Christmas card - I will post it on the web -</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Val you're asking about the workshop in november.... actually, we created a "signwriting association"... and are used to organising a week-end in the mountains once a year in a small chalet.... there are some picture of us all working on the sign notation... on: <a href="http://www.signecriture.org/PACCOTS_2008.html">http://www.signecriture.org/PACCOTS_2008.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>it's always nice to get together and practice. I did a short presentation on the use of SignPuddle, and the participants tried to practice, add new signs (on my private puddle because there are absolutely no internet connexion in this small chalet...)</div><div><br></div><div>beside that, I've started working with a group that has the projet to translate Bible into french sign language (it's a big project including swiss, fench, belgian, and som french african countries..... working together on this passage of Bible....</div><div>I presented SignWiriting, showed them what and how it can be used..... SW might become part of their project.... time will tell!</div><div><br></div><div>another news... of of the participant in the SW workshop I taught in october created a group "SignEcriture" on facebook.....</div><div>I just sent you an invitation....</div><div>lots of deaf people are on facebook here... and she thought it would be a good way to inform them about SW....</div><div><br></div><div>no other big plans for now... still want to developp material, games, using SW....</div><div><br></div><div>I'll send you some examples when they are ready!</div><div><br></div><div>Have a nice Christmas everyone.....!</div><div><br></div><div>Anny</div><div><span></span><span><NOEL 2008.png></span></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>