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SignWriting List September 26, 2010 That is exactly what I meant to say, and Erika said it much better than I did - thanks Erika ;-) And by the way, I have had this kind of experience many times myself - so you both are not alone... There are always positive consequences later... that there is no doubt about... Val ;-) ---- On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Erika Hoffmann wrote: > I had a similar feeling when I presented at Deaf Studies Today 10. But > you never know who you might have resonated with and what the positive > consequences might eventually be! > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Charles Butler > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Well, I presented the workshop but I felt that I fell on my face for the >> following reasons: >> 1) Too much information, too little time. >> 2) Lack of vocabulary, all of the attendees were interpreters AND teachers >> of the deaf, and my vocabulary was inadequate to the task. I should have >> asked for help from KJ or another interpreter at the beginning. >> 3) I got positive responses from a couple of people, but the most common one >> was "how many people IN OHIO are using this system", "why should MY students >> have to learn anything else?" Half of them maybe "got it" but the others >> just kept with questions. >> 4) I should have simply linked to the website and gone from there as the >> website is informative, answers most of the common questions, and I could >> have had a Deaf Advocate actually talking to the group. >> Lessons learned, but I feel very small and inadequate right now. >> Charles Butler >> > > > > -- > Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway > Assistant Professor of Anthropology > Oberlin College >