Hi Maureen, ..
I am so happy to receive
your DVD in this blue envelope.
No problem to look at all
the videos ...
It is such a pleasure to
watch the DVD about your BSL workshop ... thanks to your positive
aura, it is no problem to follow
the lessons over
a longer period
I looked very carefully
at your demonstration of BSL fingerspelling and in order to support my students
within their English – lessons we will give it a try and practice BSL
fingerspelling parallel to the DGS fingerspelling ...
I will inform you how
this experiment will work.
One very interesting
aspect may be that my students will receive a lot of support by the mouthing
.... so there is a good chance that they will improve their articulation of
english words as well.
If you are interested to
copy these entries from the German Sign-Puddle dictionary to the British
Sign-Puddle dictionary .. that should be no problem at all.
Valerie is much better in
offering this kind of small tutorial – but let mie try to explain.
Step one: open your
British SignPuddle Dictionary
Step two: Scroll down and
look for the German Sign-Puddle (double-click)
Step three: Click on “Search
by words” left top icon
Step four: write “BSL”
into the searchfield “Terms and Titles”
(radio button “any part of word”)
Step five: click on search
Now you will see a list of all “BSL
fingerspelling entries” I have written so far ;-)
Step six: Just select one of them (click) and the sign will show up
Step seven: click on “Copy
Sign”
Step eight: at the bottom
you find all the flags for the different countries. Look for the British
SignPuddle Dictionary ( not Literature!!) and click on the flag.
Step nine: Just enter the
word or the number, write any comment in the area below for example “BSL fingerspelling
as taught by Maureen Doyle, practicemakesperfect.org.uk transcribed by SW”
That`s it
Now this entry is
available in the British SignPuddle – Dictionary and in the delegs-Editor
as well (24h later – smile)
If there are any
questions- do not hesitate to ask...
Thank you so much again
Stefan
Von: SignWriting
List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Maureen Doyle
Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. September
2013 14:06
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Hi Again. Stefan.
I dont think anyone is in CHarge of the DIctionary .As anyone who knows
SW
can add to it..
SUzanne Pach.. (Dutch ) who was our Workshop tutor also added some.
when she prepared the workshop handouts..
I added alot of the SW for the BSL after we had the
Workshop .
So I just put SP for Southport.. the area I live in..
As it saved time
WHat I did was , looked at the USA dictionary ..
as I knew that Diaper and Nappy were the
same Sign so I copied it to the British DIctionary... but
added the British name.
I then scrolled through all their signs and when I found those that I
knew as a BSL sign
I then Copied and renamed..
I hope you inderstand what I mean.
It took many many hours even to do those..
there are SW Nursery rhymes in the Literature to
link with my DVD
so having the SW print outs went beautifully with the DVD
for those
on the workshop..
I havent got back to doing any more but maybe I will in
time..
Regards.
Maureen
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:56:27
+0200
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Subject: AW: Maureen. "Widget ./ facebook.
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Hello Maureen ,,,
and other BSL - SW-list members , ...
Thank you very much for
your answer. It helps a lot to understand.
Well ...mh ... how can
anybody think that this kind of drawings ... mh...
Documents written in
SignWriting are tremendously better in any way.
The reason that I am
interested in these materials is the following. At school we discuss to offer BSL
– going along with learning English ... instead of a mixture of DGS and
English translation.
I do not know whether we
really need that ..but it would be helpful to offer at least a few documents
written in BSL ...
I would love to start
with the numbers from 1 to 20 and some nouns (boy, girl, teacher, cat,
dog,...) some Adjectives... (colours,
deaf, hearing, small, ...)
Looking at the BSL Online
dictionary which can be used with our great delegs-Editor there are not too many
entries right now... So we need more.
Looking at online BSL -
Videos I can see a lot of information coming from the mouth –
same happened when I looked at the deaf students visiting our school this week.
... so our symbol set for “Mundbilder” would be helpful to write
the signs as the signers perform them.
I would like to discuss
that. Here is my question.
I do not know who on the
sw-list is in charge of the BSL dictionary.
Who is SP ..the
person that made most of the entries?
All best Stefan
Von:
Maureen Doyle [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Gesendet: Freitag, 27. September 2013
19:10
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Hi again..
Yes, Ive Heard of and Have the 2 cds that are
needed to install on the computer to be
able to design and print out Sign language pictures
with words..
this link will show you what widget is.. and there are some free
documents that may be of use to you..
http://www.widgit.com/resources/bsl/sheets/
Its really for making flash cards.. posters etc
for people of all ages learning sign language
and for teaching aids . The
Dictionaries that you can buy are made with these .
They are very good and I use alot of them as
teaching aids.. and recommend our members
to buy Cath Smiths.. products..
The Widget could not be used for a Deaf person to
write a letter or story in their own
sign language. so
its completely different to SignWriting..
I Held a signwriting workshop here in Southport. Merseyside and Have
added BSL SW signs
to the British SW section.
I cant understand why SW was never introduced into British Deaf schools
many years ago..
I know Deaf person at the Deaf centre in Southport that could
not read nor write he went to
The Birkdale Deaf school but it was ORAL and didnt allow
signing.
I'm hard of hearing.. and been doing sign language for 17
years.. and also running my voluntary group
to teach others , Deaf people with no signing and
hearing people needing or wanting to learn
for many different reasons. ..
Ive sent you an invitation by email to join our face
book. group .
my best regards..
Maureen
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Subject: AW: BSL ABC in SW .
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:42:13 +0200
Hi Maureen,
thnak you for your
message.
Well this graphic is just
an example This week we have had a Comenius week at our school. Teams from Vienna
(Austria), Derby
(England) and Lubliniec
(Poland) visited our school. They came to
my classroom and I have had a short opportunity to demonstrate how we work so
tremendously effectful with the delegs-Editor.
The people from England looked at it and made
a comment that there is already a pretty similar concept for BSL ...
“Widget”...kind of that ... I forgot the exact term.
Nevertheless it seems to me that this system
is more kind of drawing people with arrows describing what kind of movement ...
and it is not online. There must be some kind of Software-programm on a CD...
In a few weeks my colleague will get the chance to visit them and to
bring this software..
Hi Maureen do you know anything about that?
I explained that with the
Delegs-BSL – dictionary they would be able to start immediately to write
excercise sheets and SW-documents for their deaf students ... May be it
has been a little bit too enthusiastic ..;-) and overwhelming when we
wrote a few simple phrases in BSL . Anyway Tima did an outstanding job to
demonstrate that he was able to write English, BSL and German...
Would be a pleasure to
send the BSL ABC ... but where? Do you offer a link .. so that I have not
to search for hours?
Stefan
Von: Maureen Doyle
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Gesendet: Freitag, 27. September
2013 13:50
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Hi
Please post The Sw BSl alphabet to my groups face
book page .
practice makes perfect.
maureen doyle.
www.practicemakesperfect.org.uk
kind regards..
Maureen
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