<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>December 29, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>THANK YOU, Dali and Steve, for this beautiful posting of writing attached - I am stunned at the visual beauty of it - I look forward to responding in more detail tomorrow - Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Dali balti wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello everyone!</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">As you have been told by dear Valérie, my students in the University had their first SignWriting Exam, and I was very happy with their results.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">the exam was as follows with a little change within the 6th page.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;">There is a text made up of three pages (1, 2 and 3)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Students had to read it and understand it by themselves, though I signed it once as it was their first contact with this kind of exams, and specailly as they had to read a language that was never written before.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Page 4, there are five questions, and students had to answer these questions related to the text, using signwriting.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times,
serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Page 5 is made up of two exercices, the first is a schedule with some handshapes drawn by Steve which I used from his book, and students had to guess how to write them into SW (they had to care about three important points: a/ the handshape, b/ the orientation "black, white or half-black half-white) and c/ if the fingers were cut or not.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">and the second was a mixture of 8 handshapes and their corresponding 8 SW Signs, and they had to match between them, actually this exam was a gift to them, hhhhh</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york',
times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In the last page, number 6, I put 24 pictures for 24 signs, and students had to choose five pictures among the 24 ones and to write them into SW.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Results! Once I scan some of my students copies, I will post them in our list!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have two signwriting groups:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In the first group I have 20 students, and only 4 of them had 8 of twenty, and the others had 11, 12, 13, and 17 out of twenty.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In the second group, I have 19 students, only one girl had a bad mark as she never attended the class, as for the others, five of them had 20 out 20, they were amazing, I was very happy with their level in SignWriting, as
for the others they had 12; 14, 16, 18 and 19.....</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Here I attached the exam!!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Conclusion: Out of this exam, I felt the need to make a SignWriting Workbook for my students, I already made the first three lessons, and once I finish it, I will post it, and I think it will be helpful to everyone of us to use it. I am also translating a SW
book into Arabic, but using Tunisian and French Signlanguage!!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thank you all, and special thank to Steve and Val, as I offer this exam to dear brother Abu Sheira in Saudi Arabia!!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Blessings!!!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></div><img name="test txt01.JPG" id="f17897c6-f85b-41bb-b93c-a6dd9b70de67" height="1444" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9B435676-51F5-41DF-A49E-2B8DCEF49BF3"><img name="test txt02.JPG" id="2370bb03-18a7-4493-a496-775e843ca0ca" height="1444" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B14A3531-CFD0-441B-828B-B95F94A6A823"><img name="test txt03.JPG" id="5b0ac41b-3923-4571-a9c6-70d20d72296c" height="1444" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:BE118F27-75B1-4AC4-9C60-FDD621D6D4F9"><img name="Compréhension texte examen.JPG" id="576e7c25-a712-45c7-a0d4-ba6d0fe150aa" height="1444" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8389BA15-459E-45B7-AE3A-D3C447947FD4"><img name="test config SW.JPG" id="117e8299-36a9-4a6e-8edb-5c06053bc32d" height="1435" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:87EB0B6A-0544-4882-8644-E583821173A0"><img name="exercice SW making.JPG" id="075b23c0-fef7-4f0c-a0a4-8dff148190fb" height="1444" width="1037" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:AD0F55ED-6DCD-4A6B-9E59-FAA6696EF2B3"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>