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SignWriting List March 27, 2013 Welcome Theresa! Your message is amazing too…. Thank you for sharing with us … great to feel your enthusiasm ;-) Maybe your students will enjoy our ASL Wikipedia? - Have you seen the articles written in ASL? Can your students read the articles? Take a look… ASL Wikipedia Project http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org ASL articles are translations of articles in the English Wikipedia: 1. Charles-Michel de l'Epee http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charles-Michel_de_l%27Epee 2. Laurent Clerc http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc 3. Alice Cogswell http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Alice_Cogswell 4. City of Helen, Georgia http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Helen,_Georgia 5. William Stokoe http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/William_Stokoe 6. Carol Padden http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Carol_Padden 7. Israeli Sign Language http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/wiki/Israeli_Sign_Language Val ;-) Valerie Sutton [log in to unmask] ---------- On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Theresa Durham <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is pretty amazing!! I had no idea that it is all over the world! I first learn > about the sign writing through the Deaf artist and then through Master ASL. > I am a Deaf ASL Teacher at high school full time for a long time... > > When I look/read the sign writing first time, I understand right away. I was > real surprised at how much I understood sign writing since ASL is part of me > for who I am. I thought that it would be too hard for me but it is not!!! I > was shocked and happy at the same time that I finally fit in that "sign writing" > language... > > I showed it to my students and they seemed really fascinating and real > surprised that ASL is actually a language. It seems like "notarized" seal it for > real... I see their face "drop to the floor" Now they know that ASL is for > real and it is equal to any written language. Just unique. >