Hi - I'm enjoying the presentation from home. I'm not sure how to ask questions live..;-((( Would it be possible to get a demonstration on how long it takes to write a sentence with this keypoard without using a dictionary in the background? Can you write the sentence in ASL "SignWriting is a wonderful invention." All best Stefan 2015-07-21 17:32 GMT+02:00 Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi all! I'm enjoying the presentation from home. I'm not sure how to ask > questions live (and I remember the difficulties caused last year when too > many people tried to participate at once), so I thought I'd post questions > here, to be answered later at people's convenience. > So, Yair, this is really great. A quick question: in setting up the > keyboard, how did you decide where to place different elements on the split > board? I'm interested in the physical skill/habits involved in typing. > Given that this is a different type of writing system, I'm wondering what > research you might have done to come up with a layout that might be > physically efficient, or perhaps intuitive for those accustomed to using a > qwerty keyboard, or whether there were other kinds of considerations. > Thanks! > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> SignWriting List >> June 30, 2015 >> >> >> *SignWriting Symposium 2015* >> >> 12 presentations from 8 countries: >> Brazil, Canada, Germany, Nicaragua, Portugual, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, USA >> >> Broadcasting 3 presentations a day, for 4 days. >> >> *Day 1: *July 21 >> *Session 1: *CANADA: Yair Rand >> *Session 2: *SAUDI ARABIA: Mohamed AbuShaira & Abd elraroof Mahfooz >> *Session 3: *USA: Stephen E. Slevinski, Jr. >> >> >> *Day 2: *July 22 >> *Session 1:* GERMANY: Stefan Woehrmann >> *Session 2:* CANADA: André Lemyre >> *Session 3: *BRAZIL: Marcos Kluber Kogut >> >> >> *Day 3: *July 23 >> *Session 1:* PORTUGAL: Rafaela Cota de Silva >> *Session 2: *BRAZIL: Ronnie Fagundes de Brito, Messias Ramos Costa, >> Milton Shintaku, Sandra Patricia Nascimento >> *Session 3: *USA: Stephen E. Slevinski, Jr. >> >> >> *Day 4: *July 24 >> *Session 1:* NICARAGUA & USA: James Shepard-Kegl >> *Session 2: *GERMANY: Paul Rutrecht, Joachim Nitschke, Janina Lentfohr >> *Session 3: *TUNISIA: Mohamed Ali Khenissi & Yosra Bouzid >> >> >> ——————————————————————————— >> >> *Time Zones of Sessions:* >> >> Broadcasting 3 presentations a day, for 4 days. >> >> *PDT - Pacific Daylight Time* (La Jolla is in San Diego County, >> California) >> *Session 1: 8:00 - 9:00* >> Break: 9:00 - 9:30 >> *Session 2: 9:30 -10:30* >> Break: 10:30 - 11:00 >> *Session 3: 11:00 -12:00* >> >> >> *CST - Central Standard Time *(Nicaragua is 1 hour ahead of San Diego) >> *Session 1: 9:00 - 10:00* >> Break: 10:00 - 10:30 >> *Session 2: 10:30 -11:30* >> Break: 11:30 - 12:00 >> *Session 3: 12:00 -13:00* >> >> >> *CDT - Central Daylight Time* (Iowa is 2 hours ahead of San Diego)) >> *Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00* >> Break: 11:00 -11:30 >> *Session 2: 11:30 -12:30* >> Break: 12:30 - 13:00 >> *Session 3: 13:00 -14:00* >> >> >> *EDT - Eastern Daylight Time* (Maine, Canada, Quebec are 3 hours ahead >> of San Diego)) >> *Session 1: 11:00 - 12:00* >> Break: 12:00 - 12:30 >> *Session 2: 12:30 -13:30* >> Break: 13:30 - 14:00 >> *Session 3: 14:00 -15:00* >> >> >> *BRT - Brazilia Time* ( Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil is 4 hours >> ahead of San Diego) >> *Session 1: 12:00 - 13:00* >> Break: 13:00 - 13:30 >> *Session 2: 13:30 -14:30* >> Break: 14:30 - 15:00 >> *Session 3: 15:00 -16:00* >> >> >> *WEST - Western European Summer Time* (Portugal & Tunisia are 8 hours >> ahead of San Diego) >> *Session 1: 16:00 - 17:00* >> Break: 17:00 - 17:30 >> *Session 2: 17:30 -18:30* >> Break: 18:30 - 19:00 >> *Session 3: 19:00 -20:00* >> >> >> *CEST - Central European Summer Time* (Germany is 9 hours ahead of San >> Diego) >> *Session 1: 17:00 - 18:00* >> Break: 18:00 - 18:30 >> *Session 2: 18:30 -19:30* >> Break: 19:30 - 20:00 >> *Session 3: 20:00 -21:00* >> >> >> *AST - Arabia Standard Time* (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is 10 hours ahead of >> San Diego) >> *Session 1: 18:00 - 19:00* >> Break: 19:00 - 19:30 >> *Session 2: 19:30 -20:30* >> Break: 20:30 - 21:00 >> *Session 3: 21:00 -22:00* >> >> ________________________________________________ >> >> SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION >> >> Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] >> >> Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] >> >> SignWriting List Archives & Home Page >> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist >> >> Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages >> http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 >> >> > > > -- > Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway > Associate Professor and Chair > Oberlin College > ________________________________________________ > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > > -- think positive - think steps - think future ________________________________________________ SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] SignWriting List Archives & Home Page http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1