SignWriting in Universities/Institutions

Mon Jun 8 21:33:57 UTC 2009

Hoi,
It is more like Wikipedia. One of the important things is that it allows
everyone to write. When you consider the many e-mails that come out way, you
often know about things that you want to remember or want to go back to.
These e-mails are often hard to find. In a Wiki like Wikipedia you can build
in references to subjects and these subjects can be something like "list of
organisations that use SignWriting". Like on Wikipedia everybody can join in
the writing.

The one benefit I see is that it allows many more people to contribute. It
would not all be for Valerie to do.
Thanks,
       Gerard

2009/6/8 MARIA AZZOPARDI <maria.azzopardi at um.edu.mt>

> 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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