Happy Halloween! (Topic Signing)

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Closed-Captioning Glasses

That's right.

Glasses that give what you're watching subtitles.

Frikkin' awesome.

So there are these glasses that Sony made that are really amazing, they project small closed captioning for movies and TV on wee tiny projectors for the hearing impaired or deaf people who are wearing them. They have them at Regal Cinemas too apparently.

You should check them out for yourselves:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/sony-subtitle-glasses/

http://deafnation.com/evelinas-backlot/closed-caption-glasses/

Midterm - Free Signing

Midterm - Compare & Contrast

Introduction (Video)

(Please, please mute the volume to this video when playing it as I have no way of editing out the weird white noise stuff that's rather loud sometimes in the background right now. I'll fix this later and re-upload it when I have the tools to do so.  Thank you!)

"Switched at Birth" Response

I watched the first couple episodes of "Switched at Birth" to get a feel for the show. Whether or not I like it is irrelevant.

A lot of their ASL is the same as what my friend Vincent does mixed with what my class does. They are in Kansas City according to a line in the show - so maybe what they are doing is different in some ways because it's a slightly different dialect (for lack of a better word) of ASL. There are different ways to sign the same word in quite a few cases so I'm not entirely surprised to see differences in the show compared to what I've seen.

Introduction

Hi there! My name is Ash. I'm a college student. I'm currently taking my first ASL class. I have really base previous experience with ASL in the past due to friends and the like, but it's really amazing actually learning it now. I really like my teacher - she is smart and funny, and a pleasure to learn from. I really love learning ASL so far and I look forward to continuing my ASL education beyond this class.

I'm learning ASL because I come across situations where it'd be really handy to know at least some basic ASL fairly often, plus I think there should be way more people who know it.

Let's see, what else... oh yes! It's time for the small talk portion of this introduction to the concept of me. My birthday is October 16th. (Next Tuesday!) I really like Autumn. I really love purple, orange and green... and I really like black... *ahem* anyway, I have two brothers (and I'm the youngest.) I live in a tiny apartment with 3 other people in SE Portland. I have an awesome boyfriend named Vince. We've sort of adopted this adorable cat we call Ocelittle. We call it that because it's like an Ocelot only, well, littler.

Um, I think that's about it. I will be posting a lot about ASL or deaf culture related stuff on here.

Take care!!

- Ash