Week 13

Part 1

A)

1. Deaf West Theatre Clip 1

I liked this clip, I thought it was interesting how the actors in the play were signing and at the same time it looked as if they were dancing. In a way I think that a visual theatre performance has more in it because they look like they thought about combining the language with dancing to entertain.

2. Dancing with the Stars: Marlee Matlin

I thought watching Marlee Matlin dance was amazing. I would say that there is a huge difference between hearing and feeling music, someone feeling music would go through and entirely different process than someone who is hearing music. I would think it would be difficult to pick up the beat of a song and dance to it like Marlee Matlin does, however she and other people who feel music have found their own way to feel the music.

3. Indiana Visual Arts Day

I would have to say that choosing what kinds of curriculum is used for deaf students would sometimes be approached differently than someone who is hearing. I think that the deaf would have to communicate to teachers if a method of teaching was not working for them.

4. Waiting on the World to Change

The very first thing I noticed this time around watching the video is the first words that came up, "it's everybodys music" conveying that the deaf can feel music just as well as people who hear the music.

5. Deafnews.com

I would say that for the deaf news it would be pretty much the same ways of choosing who delivers the news as any other news station. As long as the person delivering can sign clearly and effectively is what is needed to get a certain point across.

6. Lucky

I think this is a cool and different way to listen or see music. Although it is hard for me to understand the song in this way I believe that people who cannot hear have learned to see and feel music while people who can hear have learned to listen. Since the deaf learned to see and feel music this way is as effective to them as listening to music is for me.

7. A 1 year old Hearing Baby Singing

I do not think that signing would make a child's vocabulary smaller in the long run. I would say silence is when there is nothing going on in your head, when your brain is silent. Although the deaf cannot hear they are still interacting with the world around them just like everyone else.

8. MSSD

I think visual learning is just effective as verbal learning is. The deaf community has learned to communicate without using words but signs, and just as teachers teach verbally teachers can just as easily teach visually. I think that the idea of a school using all ASL is a great idea so that the teaching is targeted at this different form of understanding information.

9. Tour of Gallaudet

I think this video shows how a university geared towards the deaf is just the same as any other university. It has all the same activities that other universities has like sports, etc.

10. The Forest -- A Story in ASL

I would say that along with ASL the motion of the hands of the person signing along with the expressions on their faces helps express the feeling and the mood of a story. I noticed in this story that when the man was signing about the quiet scenery he closed his eyes and moved his hands in a slower more flowing way which gave a sense of calmness. When this same man was signing about the "muscular man" his face looked meaner and his hands were moving in a more choppy way which made the mood feel scary and intense. The way people sign can say a lot about the emotions just like when someone says something a certain way.

11. www.aslpro.com

This is a webiste designed for teachers to use in the classroom for a way for the teacher to personalize a quiz for the students in their classes. It is used to let students see other people other than their teacher sign and see the differences in the different people signing.

The five words that I searched were; Change, Love, Friend, Shy and World. Most of these word were words that I picked out from the various videos that we watched.

B) 1. ASL borrows many elements from the English language.

2. The French had a natural sign language called Old French Sign Language (OFSL) which might be the oldest form of sign language.

C) 1. It is physically exhausting to get by as a deaf person in a world where people expect you to live the "hearing" lifestyle.

2. The Deaf community does not include all deaf people and it does not exclude all hearing people either.

D) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zyGbbgbBO0

-I liked this video because it shows a regular teenager that listens to popular music making her own video for a song. She shows emotions through her facial expressions and makes it her own by signing with different hand movements to make it more interesting.

Part 2.

1. Amanda says that moving to San Francisco has made her appreciate what it has to offer.

2. Elizabeth did not notice how much she loved her hometown of Petaluma until after she moved away.

3. Gabby's favorite thing about living in California is Christmas time in Union Square.

4. Jacob's first time taking his son skiing he hoped his son saw the beauty of California that kept him coming back for 28 years.

5. Jerad's California is the wine country in Petaluma.

6. When Karl was 3 years old is when he began to live on a farm

7. Rachelle has not been to Crescent City in almost ten years but it still holds some of her fondest memories.

8. Robert grew up in San Francisco and it is an experience that he would not trade for the world.

9. Wesley was not impressed about California's beauty until he stumbled across Poore Lake

10. Veronika moved to California from Russia.