Report from Val's desk ;-)
Shane Ó hEorpa
shaneoheorpa at MAC.COM
Fri Feb 2 08:08:24 UTC 2007
Val,
as long as youre being a good girl! :-)
Will you give a paper at the Linguistics conference?
Shane
On 1 Feb 2007, at 15:40, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> February 1st, 2007
>
> Hello Jonathan and Everyone!
> Thank you for the message below Jonathan..I appreciate it, that you
> shared this with us. It is amazing to think that young Deaf people
> are writing rows and rows of symbols in Goldilocks workbooks around
> the world...including Honduras! Isn't the web a wonderful tool? We
> can post our work to each other, without getting on an airplane!
>
> I plan to be back to work full-time on Monday, February 5th. I look
> forward to reading all your old messages that I have not responded
> to, and to post the two last Handwriting lessons, which you all can
> finish at your leisure.
>
> Cherie sent me some videos of her signing in ASL, the stories
> already written and posted to the List, such as Little Miss Muffet
> etc....so it will also be interesting for us to look at the videos
> and then look at the SignWriting...an excellent way of clearing up
> some of the editing questions about grammar etc..THANK YOU, Cherie,
> for that gift...
>
> February will be a fascinating month for me. Stefan Woehrmann has
> already created the first draft of the English translation of his
> textbook, The SignWriting Handbook, which at the moment is only
> available in German. With permission from his publisher, we hope to
> create a printed English document, that will be packaged with the
> book, when people purchase it...so they will receive both the
> German book and the English translation at the same time. This, I
> hope, will help spread the book in the US and to others, who do not
> know German.
>
> February is also the month that I will write the new Reference
> Manuals for SignBank 8.5 and SignPuddle 1.5. I also hope to create
> a larger database in SignBank 8.5. Once the database is larger,
> SignBank 8.5 will be ready for sale, and also will be ready to
> display at the Linguistic Conference in La Jolla, California, at
> the end of March.
>
> In the month of March, here on the SignWriting List, I hope to
> teach you all how to use SignPuddle 1.5 and SignBank 8.5, for those
> who are interested...
>
> So that is the schedule!
>
> February will be a great month!
>
> Have a wonderful weekend everyone ;-))
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Jonathan wrote:
>
>> Hi Val,
>> I printed out the Goldilocks Level 1 for 3 of my Deaf
>> students. They are all young teenagers. They all thought well of
>> the coloring books and exercises. I have only been back to visit
>> Allan since I gave it to them. When I asked him about the
>> Goldilocks book, he started apologizing that he hadn't colored any
>> of the pictures yet. So I asked him if had done any of the
>> exercises. He got it out for me and it turns out that he had done
>> all of them!!!!!!!!! All within a week!!! :-)
>> He had it all nearly perfect except that he forgot to color in
>> a few arrow heads for the right hand and fill in a few hands that
>> where flat palm down horizontal hands. I have printed out the
>> next Level of Goldilocks for him to read I will give it to him soon.
>> I am looking forward to what my other 2 students have done in
>> their workbooks.
>> I have a suggestion in case you ever make another version of
>> it. I think that it would be nice to have a full page of the flat
>> horizontal hands (like the flat vertical hands) just before the
>> "baby" sign or the "walk" sign workbook pages.
>> Another suggestion about the website, I think that such gems
>> as the 4 Goldilocks should be put on their own with a short
>> explanation you gave Cherie about the different levels. There's
>> so many good things on your web site. Sometimes we don't take the
>> time too look into some of them until you point them out to us
>> here on the sw-l.
>>
>> Thanks again for all the beautiful work you and others have done.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>> SignWriting List
>>> January 9, 2007
>>>
>>> Here are the links to downloading the three books for kids:
>>>
>>> Workbook SW Level 1
>>> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0076-US-Goldilocks-
>>> Level1.pdf
>>>
>>> Storybook SW Level 2
>>> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0077-US-Goldilocks-
>>> Level2.pdf
>>>
>>> ASL Picture Dictionary for kids
>>> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs1/sw0078-US-Pict-Dict-1.pdf
>>>
>>> but I will try to print some for you today too...
>>>
>>> I look forward to getting more Level 1 workbooks with other story
>>> lines other than Goldilocks someday, so let's talk about taking
>>> your Mother Goose literature and creating workbooks for those
>>> stories too...in the future...for Level 1...it is not that hard
>>> to do...just need some focus time!
>>>
>>> and congrats once again for teaching SignWriting at the Georgia
>>> School for the Deaf!
>>>
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>>
>>>> SignWriting List
>>>> January 9, 2007
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 9, 2007, at 6:14 AM, CWren at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
>>>>> Val, As you know, Donna and I will begin teaching the kids this
>>>>> friday... would you recommend starting them with handwriting
>>>>> symbols, since that is primarily what they will be doing at
>>>>> first, or with the full symbols as done in the computer, since
>>>>> that is what they will be reading primarily... Does my
>>>>> question make sense? Should I do up a handwritten version of
>>>>> Hickory Dickory, for example, rather than use the computer
>>>>> printed one, since they will not be using the computer
>>>>> themselves right away? Which symbol set should they learn first?
>>>>
>>>> My Goodness! You need the materials I developed for teaching
>>>> children in different Levels...
>>>>
>>>> No...do not start with Hickory Dickory Dock, which is
>>>> beautifully written, but is too advanced for beginning writers
>>>> and especially children...it is Level 3 or 4...that can be
>>>> introduced after they have completed a Workbook in Level 1...
>>>>
>>>> I was so hoping that you and Donna would join the Literacy
>>>> Project and ask for the materials and then I would print and
>>>> send them to you...that way you would have the Levels 1, 2, 3
>>>> and 4 we developed for children...
>>>>
>>>> But let me explain...
>>>>
>>>> We developed SignWriting Levels for teaching children...which we
>>>> used in the Albuquerque School system for years...
>>>>
>>>> Goldilocks at SignWriting Level 1 is a workbook and coloring
>>>> book for young children...the children learn specific symbols
>>>> and write them in rows, and color pictures and then write the
>>>> signs for those pictures...then we graduate them to Level 2, 3
>>>> and 4...later, after they have completed writing the whole
>>>> Workbook Level 1...they learn to read simple writing, and then
>>>> graduate to more complex writing, like your marvelous stories,
>>>> Cherie, which are at Level 3 and 4...
>>>>
>>>> You can download all four levels of writing and reading
>>>> Goldilocks on the web...
>>>>
>>>> All of your written literature, including Hickory Dickory Dock,
>>>> can be developed in 4 Levels too...but that takes some
>>>> development time ;-)
>>>>
>>>> So today, Tuesday, I am going to print 10 workbooks for you, and
>>>> send them Express Mail to you...they may not make it by
>>>> Friday...but we can try!
>>>>
>>>> You can also download the PDF of Workbook 1 and print them out
>>>> for your kids yourself...Can you print in color at your school?
>>>> Here is the link for Workbook 1:
>>>>
>>>> Download & Print Workbook 1, at Level 1 for kids:
>>>> http://www.signwriting.org/archive/thumbnails/00025.html
>>>>
>>>> On this web page, you will see documents 76, 77 and 78...all
>>>> three are used with young children...but number 76 is the
>>>> Workbook Level 1...for Hand-Printing basic symbols...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Val ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jonathan & Yolaine Duncan
>> 8-) & ;-)
>>
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