<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>March 27, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome Theresa!</div><div><br></div><div>Your message is amazing too…. Thank you for sharing with us … great to feel your enthusiasm ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe your students will enjoy our ASL Wikipedia? - Have you seen the articles written in ASL? Can your students read the articles?<br><br>Take a look…</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org"><img height="135" width="155" id="68ad4e4c-4a4b-402e-8f62-6e741f023b54" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8FE8D1EC-8E0F-4593-A10A-47F0795472A2"></a><br><br><br>ASL Wikipedia Project<br><a href="http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org">http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org</a><br><br><br>ASL articles are translations of articles in the English Wikipedia:<br><br>1. Charles-Michel de l'Epee<br>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charles-Michel_de_l%27Epee<br><br>2. Laurent Clerc<br>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc<br><br>3. Alice Cogswell<br>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Alice_Cogswell<br><br>4. City of Helen, Georgia<br>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Helen,_Georgia<br><br><div>5. William Stokoe<br></div><div>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/William_Stokoe<br></div><div><br></div><div>6. Carol Padden<br></div><div>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Carol_Padden<br></div><div><br></div><div>7. Israeli Sign Language<br></div><div>http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Israeli_Sign_Language</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)<br><br>Valerie Sutton<br>signwriting@mac.com<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><br><br><div><div>On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Theresa Durham <durhamtl@STAFFORDSCHOOLS.NET> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">This is pretty amazing!! I had no idea that it is all over the world! I first learn <br>about the sign writing through the Deaf artist and then through Master ASL. <br>I am a Deaf ASL Teacher at high school full time for a long time... <br><br>When I look/read the sign writing first time, I understand right away. I was <br>real surprised at how much I understood sign writing since ASL is part of me <br>for who I am. I thought that it would be too hard for me but it is not!!! I <br>was shocked and happy at the same time that I finally fit in that "sign writing" <br>language...<br><br>I showed it to my students and they seemed really fascinating and real <br>surprised that ASL is actually a language. It seems like "notarized" seal it for <br>real... I see their face "drop to the floor" Now they know that ASL is for <br>real and it is equal to any written language. Just unique.<br><br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>