[Sw-l] HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Andr é ;-)

Mon Mar 23 07:52:15 UTC 2015

Good morning André, 

it has been so much fun to meet you and Valerie in the „Open Office“
...chatroom. And well – talking about different aspects of SignWriting,
having exchange about episodes of the history and development of SignWriting
is really a good source to clarify questions and to focus on actual
projects.... 

One interesting idea has been that thanks to the generosity of Valerie and
her ability to share and to discuss her ingenious invention with the world
so many  people in different countries got and took the chance to get
credits in the academic world ...and to earn money while working with her
invention. Do not know whether this idea is clear enough within our
SW-family. I think this aspect deserves to be mentiones at least twelve
times a year ... smile. 

Browsing through old files I found this art of piece that shows again one
option to encourage students and newcomers to improve their skills while
working as a scribe --- creating ne entries in any given dictionary.

This kind of colourfull picture shows lots of different SignWriting-symbols
and the students are asked to identify and to look for them in the
SignWriter program (at that times this has been the SW44 DOS Programm)...
Now you can do this job with several other programms as well ;-)) 

They get familiar with the categories and with the place where to find the
given symbols in the “SignWriting – cupboard” 

Have a great day 

Stefan

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Gesendet: Montag, 23. März 2015 03:10
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Betreff: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, André ;-)

Thank you for this little jem!  Indeed, the Volleyball animation can be used
to introduce many SignWriting symbols.

I was curious to learn more about the Albanian experience when I logged in
Skype, so I like watching your interaction today.
>From this day, I learned 2 things:
a) The funny animations have a strong pedagogic effect.  Children want to
add SignWriting to them.  Children have a purpose.  It motivates to learn
the software.
b) LipWriting has a side effect.  By reading LipWriting in Albanian you
could speak Albanian from a deaf perspective!  You animate cross linguistic
experiences.
It may be nice to share this with the list or the symposium...

SignWriting is very exciting, it is a priviledge to participate in the birth
of a written language (I feel like woking with the Phenician whom invented
the alphabet!).

Also, I realize that this year I should learn more about delegs (with your
symposium presentation) so when asked in Québec, I can present this software
that supports LSQ.

So I was a great day.

André Lemyre

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:58:36 +0100
From: stefanwoehrmann at GOOGLEMAIL.COM
Subject: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, André ;-)
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU

Hello André ;-), 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ... and good luck with all your ongoing projects. It is so
much fun to see your enthusiasm about SignWriting ... well and believe me –
I can understand what is on your mind ... big smile 

As  a little birthday present I would love to share the Volleyball –
animation. As you can see it is an interesting combination of expressive and
receptive writing within one document.  

Many years ago my three sons and me myself loved to play around with all the
symbols of the good old SignWriter DOS programm and designed many, many
pictogramms. While doing so we got so familiar with this process of looking
for symbols and arranging them in the sign-window that we really achieved a
high level of competence working with the SignWriter DOS programm. 

With this knowledge it became easy to create more and more entries as the
scribe. 

Hope you have had a nice day. 

All best 

Stefan 

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