Over The Rainbow in ASL; creating SW documents

Tue Jul 29 16:51:06 UTC 2008

SignWriting List
July 29, 2008

Hello Kimberly, and Charles and everyone!

Thanks for this explanation below, Charles...and here is a video that  
shows you step by step what Charles explains below:

http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/help/SignPuddle15VideoUS/SignPuddle15_Video31.html

If you view this video, you can see how to start a SignText document  
in the Literature Puddle, and how to start adding signs to the  
document etc...

And here are other SignPuddle Help manuals and videos:

SignPuddle Help
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/help/

Plus ask questions here to the List...

Once you create a document, as Charles says, it gets easier!

Val ;-)

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On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Hello Kimberly et al,
>
> This is Charles, documenting a little of my experience, and looking  
> for feedback.
>
> You sort of have to know how to save signs singularly.  I had the  
> same glitch.
>
> Take a look at my sentences under the ASL Encyclopedia,  
> particularly, DeafHistory3 or DeafHistory4.  Those were more sign  
> focused, the earlier two are a lot of fingerspelling.
>
> As you use a lot of classifiers, you may want to look at what I did  
> with "Teach Deaf Children" in DeafHistory4.  The left hand from  
> teach was kept as a classifier while the right continued to sign  
> Deaf and Children.
>
> 1) First create one sign, make sure it's one sign, not a combination.
>
> 2) Then save it by saving it to the left, middle, or right lane,  
> that will start the SignText by saving the first sign.
>
> 3) Continue on to later signs, I really found myself thinking much  
> more accurately after the first several files.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> Kimberley Shaw <skifoot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Valerie and all:
> I will go and give SignText another try; sooner rather than later, I  
> hope!
> I think I gave it a go when it was just-announced, but for some reason
> didn't succeed in getting from here to there. If I'm lucky, maybe the
> computer was just having a wonky day then.
> Stay tuned,
> Kim
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> > SignWriting List
> > July 28, 2008
> > Hello Kim, Charles and everyone -
> > Great to hear from you, Kim...sounds like you are having a  
> wonderful time!
> > And I enjoyed looking at your handwritten pdf document...thanks  
> for sending
> > it to us...
> > As you know, I was the one who designed the keyboards in  
> SignWriter DOS, and
> > of course, the keyboard techniques mean a lot to me. However, I  
> also enjoy
> > the quick way that I can create full and beautiful documents in  
> SignPuddle
> > 1.5 (thank you, Steve), and I truly believe that using SignText,  
> to create
> > large documents, is very successful as well...
> > Both dragging-dropping and typing...are two techniques that are  
> wonderful -
> > and all of these techniques are useful for a certain percentage of  
> the
> > population...Not everyone prefers the keyboarding...and not  
> everyone prefers
> > the dragging and dropping...it depends on the person and their
> > equipment...and what they have experience with...
> > So let me ask you, Kim...Have you ever tried to create a document in
> > SignText in SignPuddle 1.5? You may find it fun and useful...I do
> > anyway....so I like BOTH methods, and enjoy creating documents  
> with either
> > method...Try writing your handwritten pdf in the ASL Literature  
> puddle...Go
> > to:
> > ASL Literature Puddle
> > http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=5
> > and click on the SignText button to start a brand new document...
> >
> > Charles recently started writing a series of History articles in  
> the ASL
> > Encyclopedia in SignPuddle, using SignText. Have you seen it? Very  
> good job,
> > Charles...I hope we can read more about the history of deafness  
> later in the
> > encyclopedia...
> > Go to:
> > ASL Encyclopedia in SignPuddle
> > http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=21
> > Val ;-)
> > --------------
> >
> > On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:
> >
> > Hello SignWriters:
> > I am back from my stage-signing (in ASL) debut at the 2008 GALA
> > festival in Miami, and would love to start putting up transcriptions
> > of our songs on the web! And I heartily agree with Charles -- if  
> there
> > were a way to SignWrite with the keyboard, I would be very glad to
> > start using it. It is still far easier for me to grab pencil and  
> pen,
> > than to be mouseclick-by-mouseclick building each sign online!
> > And so, I now have a PDF of a pencilled transcript of the song,  
> "Over
> > the Rainbow", which I would like to show to the rest of you before I
> > create a nice, neat, WWW-ready copy. Will it reach all of you  
> listserv
> > folks OK as an attachment?
> > Let me know how it reads, and if there are major changes that need  
> to
> > be made, signs that don't make sense, etc.
> > I very much enjoyed performing this version onstage; it was  
> created by
> > Ayisha Knight-Shaw, Deaf poet / artist / storyteller / photographer.
> > Best,
> > Kim from Boston
> >
> >
> >
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