November 2007
4 posts
1 tag
WatchHaunted Dorm by Anne Marie Baer, one of her innovative ASL lyrics works intended to protray Deaf experience of oppression in rather more literature sense. This work is still in process, there are so much being experimented in this work leaving to two main areas that still need fine tuning: ASL telling story technique and cinematic effects. I shared this with some of my friends and got different...
WatchFinally a trick ‘n treat, here is newly released ASL literature work “Haunted Dorm” (see above, or click “Haunted Dorm” It was created two years ago, inspired by experience of oppression encountered in an ASL research project, I decided to turn it into a literary work piece that could serve a genre of entertainment work in ASL as well as for providing a deep thought...
October 2007
6 posts
WatchThis is Uzi Buzgalo’s other Devia artwork recently completed. Please see the artwork on my next posting, See everything in one place, picture of artwork and video in ASLThis is a remarkable example of how a Deaf individual self empowers by accomplishing something on his own and enjoys the ownership. This is in reference to my previous vlog discussion about Deaf empowerment issues,...
WatchThis is a follow-up discussion of previous vlog about Difference between being self empowered and empowered by others. I question whether empowerment by others on reliance of a philosophy, social theoretical framework will allow one to having a full ownership of achievement. Self empowerment does, and having an ownership is necessary for greater self automation that is the ability to have the...
WatchDeaf discourse: What it means to be self empowered or empowered by other? Three video clips discuss on how social experience processes can have impact on one becoming emancipated to not being quite so. There is a difference in being empowered by other and being self empowered.
To cite:
Baer, Anne Marie. (2007, October 15). The
stark difference between being self empowered and being...
August 2007
3 posts
WatchThis is to get an idea how a signing baby develops language during his first month to about 8 - 10 months before developing a first sign word. I cannot subtitle a 12 minute long video clip. For non signers and new ones, you can scale to video clips to observe our deaf Noam at 4;5 and 7;0 starts using hands to develop “pre” sign vocabulary, known as protoword. Also you can watch how...
WatchI just found “ASL Now” card among old stuff in my box recently. Here is an explanation why I chose this card over “Deaf President Now” card even it was in 1991.
Jum Reilly the Deaf woman artist from Thailand
WatchEasy to print a letter ready for Laurent Clerc
I somehow stumbled upon this web that a fellow George Kononenko posted and thought we should do it massively to get the Post Office recognize our most valuable Deaf teacher of the Deaf, namely Laurent Clerc. Public awareness is one important key to promote bilingualism in our Deaf Ed.
July 2007
10 posts
WatchMy deaf mother during Nazi time in Germany - narration abt 10 min with photos My three deaf siblings and I are survivors if it was not for our grandparents who hid my mother in their house during her childhood. They had no choice but had to drill my mother to sound like a hearing to avoid suspicion. Many deaf people in Germany were sterilized. Despite my mother’s residual hearing with...
WatchLet’s share our testimonials this weekend: video 1 and half min with a translation text.
I have been thinking about this upcoming AGB conference on July 27th and 28th..what we can do to continue open dialogue. I was impressed with Anon’s story on Deaf Cy Tea Time: Amy mother of CI children where he described his experience with cochlea implantation since age of 2 years. We really...
WatchA recipe from our family friend Karsanbhai, with our affectionate thanks to Bindu:
Puri bread
A cereal bowl of all purpose flour
1 tablespoon of semolina flour (cream of wheat)
1 stick of butter
3/4 tsp salt
Black pepper
Tumeric powder
1 clove of finely minced garlic
1 teaspoon of green chilis finely minced - to taste..until you feel palatably hot, that’s how it is to be!
Make...
WatchRecently I landed on Pickled Relish’s blog Her site mostly talk about foods, I cannot help but say..fiiiiiiinally there is one good Deaf cooker. She reminds me when I was 20 years old 22 years ago.
WatchTips for deaf infant prereading skills development
1) Pick a book that has easy to see, single image each page.
2) Let your baby look at pictures before saying anything. It may take awhile before your baby will be ready to watch you signing.
3) Keep the image close to your face, allow the baby look at the picture then when s/he looks at you, s/he is ready.
4) Repeat same signs few times...
Watch Embodiment of deaf consiciousness: Filtering mental processes, experiences, and selection of mnemonics
In response to how deaf people handle mass of instant information in Internet, deaf v/blog sphere: LightKitchen points out a blog dicusssion Is the web killing out culture?
Author note: I insist you respectfully cite the discussion.
WatchHere is how to cite a blog discussion using APA style, more examples can be found at APA style guidance at Sheridan College Library
I cannot find the author’s actual name so this is what I can come up with. You may want to put your actual name on your profile.
ASLpride. (2007, June. 29). Deaf students are disposal to deaf schools. Retrieved July 2, 2007, from...
WatchThis is to clarify what two clip examples show and what actually happens when a signer uses simultaneous communication method or uses more like spoken English prosody on face.
June 2007
7 posts
WatchSynchronization v.s. natural prosody in ASL and signed languages
ASLpride’s discussion about synchronization and coordination
WatchIn response to Mishka Zena’s posting of Gallaudet accrediation. How King Jordan “bs bs bs” away like this
Relativity of idioms and expressions, in response...
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Deaf Tea’s video discussion about ASL idioms
A hard kick in audist's nuts, in response to Deaf...
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Deaf Butterfly on Hoh over Deaf
My answer to Destiny Chaniti's question, high and...
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See her video in ASL asking about low and high ASL? Destiny’s ASL video
WatchWhat I think of signs for blog and vlog, in response to Lenois’s vlog discussion today. Jon’s discussion abt signs
WatchLet’s go beyond talking..bring ASL to deaf/hoh students in mainstreaming programs. It is a 7 minute long, I explained how we networked with school district and state people to work together. I also described how it went in our two-days ASL workshops for linguistics, bridging ASL and English and ASL assessment with 22 teachers in several mainstreaming programs in Denver area.