Daniel Greene

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  • Welcome & responses for new interpreting student vlogger

    I met an interpreting student named Fernando Mariani Colón on Google+ recently. He started vlogging just the other day, and he requested feedback on his first vlog and responses to a question on his second vlog. So, here is my welcome, feedback, and (further down) response to Fernando.

    And here is Fernando’s second vlog and my response:

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  • Creators & haters, and why sharing doesn’t equal soliciting criticism

    In this signed language video, I talk about my experience of sharing a sample of my interpreting and transliterating work and receiving unsolicited criticism on it. Haters tend to be people with no real names and no creative works of their own. All they do is shoot down others’ work and give nothing to YouTube. As an interpreter, I am courageous enough to share my work–imperfect though it may be–with the world so that people may see it, but I am not thick skinned enough to take criticism about it. I think there are things a person creates and is willing to share with the world but doesn’t want to allow responses on because they don’t want the criticism and they don’t need the praise. This is how I feel about the sample I posted yesterday.

  • Sample of my interpreting & transliterating

    As an assignment for the Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies at Western Oregon University (WOU MAIS), I completed a videotaping of myself spending about 20 minutes interpreting a source text I had not heard before: Simon Lewis’s talk “Don’t take consciousness for granted,” at TED.com. There is an interactive transcript that you can view by following the link.

    I would like to think this is not a sample of my best work, but I am humble enough to accept that there are times when this is the best I can do with such an unfamiliar topic and fast pace.

    Here are some facts about me and the circumstances under which this sample was recorded: (more…)

  • Introduction & Goals for WOU MAIS

    I created these two videos yesterday and this morning at the start of the Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies program at Western Oregon University (WOU MAIS).

  • How I like using Google+ (plus)

    I got an invite to join Google+ a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been using it a lot and enjoying it very much. It combines the privacy of Facebook (even more privacy than Facebook, actually) with the openness of Twitter. It’s better than Twitter in that you can have longer than 140-character conversations — like on Facebook — yet it’s open like Twitter in that you get to meet a lot of people by viewing people’s comments and profiles. It’s really more than the sum of Facebook and Twitter, though. Just like any musical artist you might say is like so-and-so meets so-and-so, Google+ has its own vibe and unique contribution… it’s just too new a genre to put a finger on yet. Still, I like it very much and I am using it more than Facebook these days. I’ve been using Google services for a few years now, and I integrate them with my Android phone, so Google+ is a natural extension of all that. I like that it has a toolbar that contains all my other Google services like Gmail, Calendar, Documents, Photos, YouTube, etc.

    If you would like to circle me on Google+, search for Daniel Greene or go to my Google profile.