[sw-l] Videos or DVDs...which do you prefer?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 19, 2005

Hello Lucy -
Thanks for this interesting message and it seems you are doing a lot in
Poland! Thank you for introducing the idea of Sign Language literacy in
your presentations to teachers ;-)

And I hope you can attend the First European SignWriitng Conference in
Brussels this summer? It may be valuable for you....

Regarding the donations of SignWriting Literacy Project materials, I
only have five sets of printed materials to donate this year. At the
moment, everything is video, and I have no dvds, but I am going to
learn how to make them, and I do not believe there will be any problem
with you reading the formatting, if I learn how to make them
properly...Just as I learned how to make videos in 7 formats, I can do
that with dvds too...so that is not the issue...

Maybe we are a little pre-mature with sending you materials in 2005?
Perhaps the Polish schools would be more ready in 2006?...What do you
think?...

Val ;-)

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On Mar 18, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:

>> I am curious...How many classrooms are equipped with video equipment
>> and/or DVDs? For example, Kathleen and Sara in Belgium, or Shane in
>> Northern Ireland, or Ingvild in Norway, or Honza in the Czech
>> Republic, or Lucy in Poland...what format works best for your
>> classrooms?...video in PAL format, or DVDs?...do you have DVD
>> equipment?...computers?...video players?...
>
> I don't work at any school, only at a uni. But, my colleague Romuald
> Szurik and I are currently giving a series of lectures on SW (Romuald
> focuses on the practice, me - on the theory. In the end of March or in
> the beginning of April I will give a speech on the genesis and the
> development of SW around the world. The lectures are usually attended
> by interested students and doctoral students but now we want to invite
> parents and teachers of Deaf children.  I will be speaking about
> (among others) the SW Literacy Project, hoping to make the teachers
> interested in SW... :-).
> In Warsaw there are several schools for the Deaf but only one of them
> focuses on bilingualism (other schools are oral with signed Polish as
> supportive tool) - it is the oldest Polish school for the Deaf,
> Instytut Gluchoniemych (Institute of the Deaf and Dumb, a historical
> name), established in 1817. The Institute is an education center with
> kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and grammar school).
> I'm not well aware of what equipment is used in this Institute but
> generally analogue and digital videos as well as DVDs are commonly
> used in Poland. But, as Trevor wrote, the DVDs made in the USA can be
> unusable in other countries due to their specific encryption. But I
> don't know a lot about that.
>
> Lucyna