FRANCE Beautiful new web site for the Deaf

[Juliette Dalle]

Dear Frank

hihi

I am French. And I don't create anything with Website. but I create 
some SW animation experience. (As I am artist, I like to do something 
news with art material and technology as movie etc..).

take care

Juliette ^_^

Le jeudi, 6 avr 2006, à 03:49 Europe/Paris, Frank a écrit :

> 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
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>> 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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