SignWriting in Sign Language classes

[Adam Frost]

Here is a little of what I have right now.

www.frostvillage.com/asl/lessons/000001.html
www.frostvillage.com/asl/lessons/000002.html
www.frostvillage.com/asl/lessons/000003.html
www.frostvillage.com/asl/lessons/000004.html

Adam

On 10/2/07, Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am in the process of create a curriculum that incorporates SW. Right now
> I am working on the very beginning level, so I have the SW with just the
> handshapes as an animated gif. Then as the lessons go further, I will add
> the other symbols and make the handshapes less static. This way I can teach
> them a totally foreign writing system gradually while teaching them ASL
> without causing more confusion or substantually increasing the learning
> load.
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Charles Butler" <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com>
>
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:23:38
> To:"SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting in Sign Language classes
>
>
> Having lesson plans on Lessons in Sign Writing incorporated into Sign
> Language classes would be very good. One learns by doing what is being
> taught in class.
>
> If one goes through verbs (walk, run, dance, eat, shout, applause) and has
> them written as well as signed, then some of the writing is imparted by
> immersion, but one will always need a lesson plan so that as one starts with
> the basics (handshapes, directions, movement), it is step-by-step what one
> is using in class.
>
>
>
> Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote: SignWriting List
> October 2, 2007
>
> Dear SW List members!
> Recently I have had several questions from teachers wondering how to
> teach SignWriting in their school...They have asked for "course
> outlines". I actually do not have a course outline for teaching
> SignWriting as a separate subject...I just follow the Lessons in
> SignWriting textbook format...
>
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/
>
> But that is the OLD way of teaching...
>
> I would like to suggest a NEW approach as well as the old way...
>
> Maybe it is time to start using SignWriting as a part of Sign
> Language classes, without necessarily having a separate course in
> SignWriting?...
>
> Of course there is nothing wrong with a separate course in
> SignWriting! But separating it as a separate subject can confuse the
> students too...
>
> When we learn French or Spanish in school, we learn to speak French
> or Spanish in class, and we also learn to read it and possibly write
> it in class too...all in the SAME class...
>
> So when you are teaching Sign Language courses, provide the students
> with the signs they are learning in class, written in SignWriting on
> paper, which they can take home with them, to study with...
>
> So although SignWriting can be taught as a separate subject, I am
> suggesting that it might be best to just use it during classes where
> students are using Sign Language...we write complete books in Sign
> Language now, in SignWriting...so what is really needed is more
> reading material in the Sign Languages of the world...
>
> This week and I am putting a book together using SignBank DocumentMaker:
>
> SignBank
> http://www.SignBank.org
>
> ...it is the ASL Bible, Chapters 1-7...a very large document!
>
> I hope different religions will also start writing translations of
> their religious texts into SignWriting too...
>
> After the book I am working on right now, I will do the layout for
> Cat in the Hat and Sleeping Beauty...so we are slowly getting
> literature to read...
>
> Many thanks to all of the writiers!
>
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
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