Sign Puddle on Mobile Phones

[Bill Reese]

Valerie,
My apologies, I almost forgot to answer your question in your email.   
You asked if the Sidekick is a hand-held device.  Yes it is.  At one 
time it was about the only cell device that the deaf used.  Many 
continue to use them as they are excellent phones for communication - 
having a superb keyboard and access to instant messages and texting 
through a data-only plan.   The significant draw-back, though, is they 
are only available on T-Mobile.

At my monthly coffee socials, students from the local colleges will show 
up to fulfill contact hours needed for their sign language classes.  I'm 
often mentioning SignWriting.  They almost always have never heard of 
it, despite my mentioning it for years now.  Seems the message never 
gets back to the teachers or they ignore it.   I keep trying and would 
like to impress them with Signpuddle's dictionary lookup feature - 
making it applicable to their studies.   However, as Signpuddle doesn't 
fully work on the Sidekick, it's an exercise in futility.

I'd be curious if other devices have the same problem.  Are people with 
Blackberry phones able to use Signpuddle?

Bill


Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> February 28, 2009
>
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Bill Reese wrote:
>> I was trying to show someone Sign Puddle on my Sidekick, specifically 
>> inputting a word in the dictionary lookup to show the sign.  When the 
>> search concluded, it showed the box for the sign and the spelling for 
>> the sign, but no sign.   I was curious what the difference was 
>> between showing the spelling for the sign and the sign itself so that 
>> one would show but the other wouldn't.
>
> Bill -
> That is not a feature...it sounds like something didn't work well at 
> that moment and the sign should have shown up and didn't for some 
> reason...
>
> A Sidekick is a hand-held device, is that right? I have never seen 
> one, but I have heard of them...
>
> Somehow the sign did not load into the box...on a desktop computer I 
> would say that could happen if you are using Internet Explorer, or if 
> you have a poor internet connection and it didn't load for some reason...
>
> Can you try searching for some more signs to see if the problem 
> continues with all searches?
>
> As far as the SignSpelling Sequence data goes...that is when you want 
> to sort an entire dictionary, or a vocabulary list, and sort the list 
> by the symbols in SignWriting....what I call the Sign-Symbol-Sequence, 
> or the alphabetical order for the SignWriting Alphabet....When we put 
> in that SignSpelling Sequence data, the software knows how to sort 
> that one sign within a long list of signs...
>
> You can see sorted signs in SignPuddle, by clicking on the "Search by 
> Symbol" button and searching for all of the signs in the dictionary 
> that use a certain symbol...Or click on Symbol Frequency to get such a 
> listing too...when the list of signs appears from the search, those 
> signs in that list are sorted by the alphabetical order of the 
> SignWriting Alphabet ;-))
>
> Anyway, regarding the fact that your Sidekick did not display the sign 
> you searched for...let's ask Steve -
>
> Steve - can you inform us what you think happened?...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
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