SignWriting in Universities/Institutions

Tue Jun 9 08:33:15 UTC 2009

Hi Gerard,

Well, if you could find some time to set one up, then I would input all I
have to say about SignWriting in Malta.

I agree that it's a very good idea, but am so tight with deadlines this
month, that I can't set it up myself.

Thanks
Maria

> 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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