How To Send vCard via Bluetooth on Sidekick 3 – a photoset on Flickr
I made an instructional video for YouTube called How To Send vCard via Bluetooth on Sidekick 3 a few weeks ago. Then I discovered Flickr a couple of weeks ago. Then, just a couple of DAYS ago, I discovered that you could capture screenshots on the Sidekick 3. I put it all together and thought, “What a great way to put together a tutorial online!” So here it is.
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Speaking and signing at the same time, in Pidgin Signed English, I show you how to set your contact information in your address book as your vCard. Then I show you how to turn on Bluetooth and send your vCard to other SK3’s.
This is my intro in ASL. I say, “Hi, I’m Daniel Greene. I am hearing. I work as an interpreter, and I also sing. I hope you enjoy my movies, whether you are hearing or deaf. Are you interested in learning more about ASL interpreting? Check out my web site, danielgreene.com!
I posted the following comment to the FCC regarding Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) – Docket 03-123.
I have been told that the FCC considers sign language interpreters to be “equivalent to a dial tone,” and that we are not mandated reporters of abuse. The problem with this is that we are human beings, and unlike text relay operators, we video interpreters actually witness the the sign language users with our eyes. In the dreaded event that a video interpreter were to witness something like a person having a heart attack or stroke, or see a person beaten, raped, or even shot dead before our very eyes, it would cause us irreparable psychological damage if we were forbidden to report it. Granted, a Communications Assistant who performs text relay services may hear something terrible on the voice line, but they can never know for sure what they heard. Video Interpreters (VI’s) are unlike Communications Assistants (CA’s) in that we are eye witnesses to whatever goes on in front of the sign language user’s camera. We should be considered mandated reporters both for the sake of our clients and ourselves. It is a human being’s natural desire, nay, need to “do something about it” when we are witness to abuse. I could not live with myself if I witness such atrocities and did not report it. It doesn’t do our clients any good either for us to remain silent in such dreadful circumstances.
You will notice that I use the term “Video Interpreter (VI)” in my letter to you. This is the term that has gained universal acceptance among the profession of sign language interpreting. Our work differs from that of CA’s in so many ways that (more…)
I posted the following comment to the FCC regarding Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) – Docket 03-123.
There are simply not enough qualified American Sign Language Interpreters in the world to meet the needs of all consumers of Video Relay Services, so I oppose the rule that all calls must be answered within 10 seconds. It takes much longer to train a sign language interpreter than it takes to train a text relay operator. The rule might apply for text relay, but in this real world we live it, it is not applicable. Perhaps in another 5 years, if many sign language interpreters are recruited into interpreter training programs in order to fill the need for qualified video relay interpreters, we can comply with this rule. At this point, it is impossible.
Daniel Greene 