Daniel Greene

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American Sign Language

  • Silent Weekend via Western Region Interpreter Education Center

    Two weeks to Silent Weekend at Western Oregon University, and it’s not too late to register! I’m not presenting this time, but some of my MAIS cohort are, so take advantage of fresh scholarship!

    Annual Silent Weekend

    The Western Region Interpreter Education Center and Western Oregon University are co-hosting the fourth annual Silent Weekend immersion experience at Western Oregon University, July 20-22nd.

    Save the Date for the 2012 Silent Weekend: July 20th – 22nd

    Silent weekend is conducted completely in American Sign Language (ASL). The event is for Deaf and hearing students, interpreters, interpreter educators, and ASL instructors. It is held at Western Oregon University during the summer.

    Attendees can choose from two possible tracks with corresponding workshops. The first is interpreter professional development, which is for working and pre-professional interpreters. The second track is for students and community members to develop their ASL skills and learn linguistic features of the language.

    There are opportunities to earn up to 1.4 CEUs during this weekend. If you are looking for some worthwhile workshops, some great entertainment, and a chance to sharpen your skills then Silent Weekend is for you!

    Registration Form and Agenda: PDF | MSWord

    Workshop Abstracts: PDF

    For more information regarding Silent Weekend, contact CM Hall at hallcm@wou.edu.

    via WRIEC: Western Region Interpreter Education Center.

  • RID V conference recap

    RID V conference recap

    Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Region V Conference 2012

    Last week, I attended the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Region V Conference 2012 in Honolulu, Hawaii as a participant and presenter. I had a great time learning, teaching, networking, and playing. Here’s a recap of my experiences during the conference. (more…)

  • Presenting Deaf-Blind interpreting workshop today, Oral Transliteration tomorrow

    The conference organizers, participants and I are creating an ohana of learning to strengthen the lives of interpreters and our clients!

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  • Looking forward to today’s #EPT Hangout On Air on signed/spoken language interpreting

    https://twitter.com/TerpTrans/status/206765043281440769

    As fate would have it, I found out right after I Tweeted and posted this that #EPT were postponing.

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

    Google Inc, 谷歌美国总部
    Google Inc, 谷歌美国总部 (Photo credit: Yang and Yun’s Album)

    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 the plus side, you have an attractive service and you don’t have to deal with firewalls; on the minus side, it is hard to have group talks in ASL when only one signer is in a big pane and all the others are in “thumbnails” in the “filmstrip” along the bottom of the screen. We discussed ways of moderating multi-signer videoconferences, such as having people hold up their hands when they want to talk and waiting to be called upon. Naomi reminded us you can select the thumbnail of the person you want to watch in the big pane, and a few of us recommended doing away with the screen-and-filmstrip layout and going to a more equally-sized multi-pane layout (or one where you can control the size of panes). Jared Evans & Willie King work at ZVRS and they said they would like to give Google some tips on more effective multi-point videoconferencing for signed language users.

    The Brady Bunch opening grid, season one
    The Brady Bunch opening grid, season one (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    I am glad that Google keeps seeking the opinions of the signing communities; I just hope they are willing to change the layout of Hangouts to a “Brady Bunch” grid format– or at least offer it as an alternate layout.

    How about you? Does the current implementation of Google+ Hangouts work for you, or would you like to see changes made? Please leave your thoughts in comments below and/or send your feedback to Google! 🙂

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