SignWriting in Universities/Institutions

Mon Jun 8 19:59:18 UTC 2009

Thank you Lucy, Gerard and Valerie,

Oh of course to add to the list there is the University of Malta,
Institute of Linguistics :)

I'm afraid I have no clue about the 'wiki' - I'm not very good with
technology :/ I don't even know what a wiki is and at the moment I too
don't have enough time to look into it. Is it similar to facebook?

Maria

> Hoi,
> It is a great idea to have a list of having a list with organisations that
> use SignWriting. It is cool to know for what sign language they use
> SignWriting. The best way forward is for you to start this list and for
> people to update this list themselves. The software to do this; it could
> be
> a wiki...
>
> There are two reasons for you to have a wiki; one is that others can do
> this
> and thereby free you to do your job. The other reason is that it is your
> intention to have a Wiki anyway; it is why it is on Steve's list to finish
> the MediaWiki extension. Having your own wiki would make you more
> comfortable with doing things the wiki way.
>
> If you need some help setting up a wiki, let me know :)
> Thanks,
>      Gerard
>
> 2009/6/8 Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
>
>> SignWriting List
>> June 8, 2009
>>
>> Hello Lucy in Poland, and Maria in Malta!
>>
>> Lucy....THANK YOU for helping us get started with the listing "Who Uses
>> SignWriting in 2009"...
>>
>> Our SignWriting web sites need to be updated in all areas, and the "Who
>> Uses SignWriitng" area is the most important area...so I need to focus
>> on
>> several countries and one of them is Poland...thank you for your
>> documents
>> you sent me and I will post them...plus I would like to post the
>> information
>> you mention below in some way...
>>
>> I am very impressed with your SignWriting usage in Poland...at a Deaf
>> Institute (school), at a University, and used by individuals...and
>> several
>> theses that use or discuss SignWriting...quite wonderful to see it
>> spread
>> like that...
>>
>> So Maria in Malta, Lucy just gave you information from Poland...that is
>> a
>> great beginning...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> -------------
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Lucy wrote:
>>
>>  Who uses SignWriting in Poland?
>>>
>>> University of Warsaw, Department of Polish -> students (from different
>>> majors) of Polish Sign Language courses and students of Postgraduate
>>> Polish
>>> Sign Langauge Studies
>>>
>>> Instytut Gluchoniemych (Institute of the Deaf and Dumb - a Deaf
>>> education
>>> center with such a historical name) - > some junior high school
>>> students and
>>> her tutor, Dr Iwona Grzesiak
>>>
>>> A few individuals, like me and some of my colleagues, for research and
>>> educational purposes.
>>>
>>> There may be also people using SW I don't know about.
>>> I know there is one student at the Warsaw Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana
>>> Wyszynskiego who writes her MA thesis on SignWriting.
>>>
>>> Lucy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Sutton" <
>>> sutton at signwriting.org>
>>> To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>>> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 5:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignWriting in Universities/Institutions
>>>
>>>
>>>  SignWriting List
>>>> June 8, 2009
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:20 AM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a list of/ or know of any Universities/Institutions
>>>>> across the globe, where SignWriting has been adopted either in
>>>>> research
>>>>> related to sign linguistics (where signwriting is used for
>>>>> transcriptions
>>>>> of data; compiltations of dictinaries etc), or in research related to
>>>>> Education - where SignWriting has been adopted as a tool in the
>>>>> Education
>>>>> for the Deaf? Many thanks, Maria
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Maria and Everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Years ago, I made the kind of listing you mention...and placed the
>>>> listing on the web...but then overtime, the listing became out of
>>>> date, so
>>>> I need to create a new current listing for you...
>>>>
>>>> I can create a listing that shows the dates that it was used, but here
>>>>  is the REAL problem...I don't know who is using SignWriting around
>>>> the
>>>> world!
>>>>
>>>> There are literally hundreds of groups as far as I can guess, judging
>>>> by
>>>> my experiences...and most people do not join the SignWriting List,
>>>> nor do
>>>> they inform me personally, which is perfectly fine! No one is
>>>> required to
>>>> inform me or anyone else, since SignWriting is free to use  all over
>>>> the
>>>> world...
>>>>
>>>> So how do I know about any group using SignWriting? Some, like you, do
>>>> participate with our List and with me...but other times, I bump into a
>>>> SignWriting project that I did not know about, on the internet, or
>>>> someone
>>>> tells me later about their work with a group...it is an  amazing
>>>> feeling to
>>>> realize that it is spreading like that...thank  goodness.
>>>>
>>>> Once I met a teacher of the Deaf who said she used SignWriting a
>>>> little
>>>> in her classroom, and the teacher sort of put down their usage,  like
>>>> it
>>>> wasn't important...she then proceeds to show me  piles....literally
>>>> hundreds
>>>> of hand written pages of SignWriting  documents written by her
>>>> students...it
>>>> was amazing and wonderful...But  she would not give me permission to
>>>> let me
>>>> use her name or to make  copies of her students' writing...so I would
>>>> not be
>>>> allowed to list  her classroom on the internet...so getting permission
>>>> to
>>>> make such a  list is also a problem for me sometimes...
>>>>
>>>> So the problem is that I am not sure which current research groups are
>>>> using SignWriting, but over the week here I will try to create a
>>>> little
>>>> list for you...
>>>>
>>>> If there are groups here on the List that use SignWriting like Maria
>>>> describes above, please tell us!
>>>>
>>>> Val ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Valerie Sutton
>>>> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>>>>
>>>> 1. SignWriting
>>>> Read & Write Sign Languages
>>>> http://www.SignWriting.org
>>>>
>>>> 2. SignPuddle
>>>> Create SignWriting Documents Online
>>>> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
>>>>
>>>> 3. SignBank
>>>> SignWriting Desktop Databases
>>>> http://www.SignBank.org
>>>>
>>>> 4. SignWriting List
>>>> Technical Support: Ask questions to the List
>>>> http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/swlist
>>>>
>>>> 5. SignWriting Literature Project
>>>> Writing Literature in Sign Languages
>>>> http://www.SignWriting.org/literature
>>>>
>>>> Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting
>>>> Center For Sutton Movement Writing
>>>> an educational nonprofit organization
>>>> P.O. Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038, USA
>>>> tel 858-456-0098   fax 858-456-0020
>>>> Skype Name: valeriesutton
>>>> D-Link Videophone:  66.27.57.178
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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