Daniel Greene

Category: Language

  • Participated in an ASL Hangout On Air, discussed how to have better signed language videoconferences

    Naomi Black at Google headquarters invited Willie King, Jared Evans, Ben Rubin, Richard Goodrow, me, (and maybe others who couldn’t make it) to a Hangout On Air so she should show JAC Cook how Google’s videoconferencing technology works. We talked about some of the plusses (no pun intended) and minuses of Google+ HOA’s (Hangouts On Air, not Homeowners’ Associations). On…

  • Resources for learning signed languages and Deaf culture

    Here is just a sampling of links. Some of these I found on Discover Interpreting, and some of them I found on my own. I just found a page full of links on Omniglot, so I shall give you this list for now, recommend you check out the Omniglot links to websites about signed languages…

  • Beginning a teaching practicum

    https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/187976483363504131 On Thursday, I Skyped from my home office to a classroom at Western Oregon University to begin a teaching practicum. As a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies program with a concentration in teaching interpreting, I will be observing and participating in a Linguistics of ASL course in the Bachelor…

  • What interpreters can learn from HTML

    What could HyperText Markup Language (HTML) possibly have to teach interpreters? I learned HTML in the nineties, and I made the connection to interpreting the other day when I watched a colleague’s interpretation. The English sentence she interpreted was: Also you can take them to a consignment shop, which– they’ll buy your clothes, which gives…

  • Vague language interpreting dilemma of the day

    https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/182562513710358528