FRANCE Beautiful new web site for the Deaf

[Frank]

Dear Juliette,
   Wish I could come to France immediately to meet you.  I had the same idea
today, the one you mentioned about creating a Website.  Are you French or
English? American?  You mentioned ASL.  I'll go to ,www.signes.ch> when I
close.  How did you happen to come to live where you are?
   Sincerely yours, Frank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juliette Dalle" <july.tigre at free.fr>
To: <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [sw-l] FRANCE Beautiful new web site for the Deaf


> see down... ;-)
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> Le mercredi, 5 avr 2006, à 23:18 Europe/Paris, Valerie Sutton a écrit :
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> > SignWriting List
> > April 5, 2006
> >
> > Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod from French Switzerland wrote:
> >> you should also have a look at the site:www.pisourd.ch (site for deaf
> >> information on health...) and also www.signes.ch (the TV programm for
> >> the
> >> deaf)...
> >
> > Very nice sites too, Anne-Claude! Especially the www.pisourd.ch, which
> > is a little more visual. The reason I mentioned the French web site is
> > that is starts out with Sign Language from the very beginning and is
> > not requiring anyone to know how to read and write a spoken
> > language...because the signing begins immediately to explain how to
> > use the web site in Sign Language...charming and practical...attached
> > is a screen capture to show you what I mean...the man in the bubble is
> > explaining how to use the site...
> >
> > Explaining how to use the web in Sign Language was something our own
> > Deaf Action Committe for SignWriting did years ago...we actually have
> > some video footage that was never used where Butch, Cindy, Denny,
> > Kevin (all Deaf) and yes...can you believe? me...ha!...we are on
> > camera telling people in ASL (and in my ASL-with-a-hearing-accent),
> > how to use a web site...
> >
> > We said something like:
> >
> > Welcome to the SignWriting Web Site. See those buttons over there to
> > the right? Push on the first button to go to lessons. Push on the
> > second button to go to Library and so forth...the idea was that we
> > would open our web site with that video footage...
> >
> > That was back in 1995! I was thinking ahead of my time, because most
> > people did not have personal computers or web sites at that time, and
> > I was not skilled enough at web design, in 1995, to do what the French
> > web site is doing today...nor was technology ready for video-related
> > web sites...so that is why I was excited about this new French web
> > site and I wonder if I shouldn't create a SignWriting web site with
> > that old video footage in ASL...we will see...I can try an experiment
> > to show you what I mean...
> >
> > Here is the French web site
> >
> > www.Websourd.org
> >
> >
> > PS. We are working on captioning videos in SignWriting now, so someday
> > the video could be accompanied, technically, with a SignWriting
> > captioned version..smile...for the future...
>
> It is possible ! There was a little project (me and Marianne Stumpf of
> Brazil when she was to Toulouse, France) where we try to translate a
> child story video of WebSourd. It was stopped for many reasons however
> it isn't dead. This project can be opened one day with the new french
> signwritters. At this moment I start to form some public people mixted
> (deaf and hearing, started 3 weeks ago) and professional LSF teacher
> for hearing (soon). I hope find of them some motived persons for
> continuing the project of video in SW-LSF-French writing.
>
> Actually I continue to do some experiences with SW animation (as the
> video of "mime" and "happy to angry"). I will prepare an animation
> about facial expression. ^_^  About it, I wonder when I will see the 2
> video of SW animation I did on the site SW ?
>
> Take care
>
> Juliette
>
> PS : the site WebSourd was opened on january 2005 ! The entreprise
> WebSourd was created about 3-5 years ago. And it takes place to
> Toulouse where I live. Yeah !
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