Animations to teach signwriting

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 6, 2014

Hello André!
Thank you for this message and for the attached PowerPoint - It is good to know that PowerPoint can accept animated GIFs. It looks great!

I agree that animated SignWriting is valuable as an educational tool…I think others agree too -

Would you, or anyone else, be interested in working on a new project…an Animated SignWriting Dictionary on the web?

Take a look at this web page:

http://www.movementwriting.org/animation/sgn-US/

It is a simple page that shows the sign written in SignWriting, and to the right of the sign, is the animated version of it…

We could have an entire site devoted to this Animated SignWriting Dictionary and Animated SignWriting Literature idea…

It could be a relaxed project for fun with no deadlines or any pressure at all (I do not like deadlines or pressure ;-) 

Just whenever the whim hits, do a few animations, and save them in a file. Then we can post them in a new site...

The project could be done for any sign language, and essentially be like a SignPuddle Online but for animated signs -

And that brings up the next question….Steve and Jonathan…could SignPuddle and SignWriter Studio store animated GIFs?

Val ;-)

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On Jan 6, 2014, at 9:50 AM, André L <andre-andre at hotmail.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
> Animations might be an intuitive way to teach signwriting to deaf children.
> It uses their knowledge of sign language.
> The movements make the writing more intuitive, closer to their experience.
> There are less symbols to read at once.
> It is easy to display on a screen, a computer or on paper.
> A teacher can write on a slide with the mouse during the class.
> It is possible to create a power point show (does not require power point to be displayed).
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> Here is an example of one animated word.  It could be a sentence, a small movie...
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> André Lemyre
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