Week 5

Questions regarding videos

1. Deaf West Theatre Clip 1: Food for thought -- What differences do you see with visual and verbal theatrical experiences?

There is much more emphasized body language in deaf theater to me; the visual is so intense in how their body expresses the viewer’s experience. That was my first impression and the one that captured me the most in watching this clip. Big River was also the first musical to use deaf hearing actors on stage. This is remarkable to me, it really demonstrates deaf people no longer have to be afraid and can be in front of the world performing. What a beautiful way to be recognized by being in a musical.

2. Marlee Matlin Dancing with the Stars
or try this one (this one is the interview portion, also look on the side to see one of the clips of her dancing. If this disappears, search 'Marlee Matlin Dancing with the Stars'). Food for thought -- what is the difference between hearing and feeling music?

I really admired her courage to be on a show based on sound. She stayed in rhythm feeling the music as oppose to hearing it which is amazing and talented to me. What team work, with this appearance, giving visual clues to each other subtle not to disrupt the performance although at times noticeable. This really made an impact on how we view Deaf people and what they can do and what an inspiration she gave deaf people and they can do anything they put their mind to.
I went on to explore Much more into Marlee Matlin because I didn’t really know much about her and had forgotten she was on dancing with the stars being deaf…I am absolutely amazed she mesmerized me in to pay attention to how expressive visually deaf people are its beautiful like art….it is so capturing to see how they use their facial expressions and their whole body with strength and passion behind how they communicate. I want to learn ASL…it is an intimacy with yourself it seems that is in the form of communication, because you have one. I am truly blown away how awesome this was for me.

3. Indiana Visual Arts Day Food for thought -- who decides what education curriculum, looks like and for whom?

VSAI, ISA training artists and Rathskellar a group of deaf performance artists participated in this visual Arts day provided to this deaf school it was incredible to see all the activities, art, dance to name a few that were interactive for these students to participate and learn in. I do believe that each State Department of Education is in charge of putting together the education curriculum and for who it will be directed toward.

4. Waiting for the World to Change Food for thought -- you've seen this once before above, now see it again with additional lens of the information you've seen so far on this page. What do you notice now the second time around that you did not notice the first time?

I suppose I could say that a deaf person is not any more limited to doing what someone who can hear can do except hear. Advertisements about the world hate and not accepting different. That they also talked about the War and those not missing holidays because of our world sending people to war. How many very well known people who made impacts in the world were deaf. People of all ages can sign therefore they can communicate as children. ASL is a body language that is beautiful.

5. Deafnews.com Food for thought -- who decides who delivers the news and how it is delivered and who owns the means in doing so,

This does not seem to be answered from the clip, so I suppose left to my vice I would imagine that anyone who could support the high costs of delivering the news and that they have means to reach a wide spread audience. The audience would not be impaired by sight or hearing although those that deliver the news may be. Which I find another measurable way to see how the world is just as available to them as it is someone who isn’t deaf or blind. I believe the audience and we the people control the news and what and how it is delivered to each one of us according to what we choose to watch and that is how they get their ratings. So, I can only say lets support those in the world making their way through deaf and blind to do just as those that aren’t.

6. Lucky Food for thought -- what are the differences in what you feel when you see or hear music lyrics on paper, then performed in auditory ways, then performed in a way that is visual? Do your senses react differently to these modes of delivery?

Absolutely, I feel more real with watching the music and the passion of expressions through sign. The beginning was a little awkward, I noticed the quiet time while I waited for the music to play and then actually wondered if there was going to be music playing as crazy as that might sound? The delivery between how the boy signed and how the girl did, seemed to grab my attention differently. Someone is always left out when it comes to how we broadcast the news, but I hope that signing the news will start to be accepted with openness in our nation.

7. A 1 year old hearing Baby Signing Food for thought -- how is this baby not silenced by knowing this language? Is 'silence' necessarily something you don't hear? How about privilege and oppression notions -- how do these apply here?

Again, I am lead to explore deeper into the meaning rather than what the clip offered. M y experience with silence and the deaf is it is an experience by hearing in the absence of sound, but in a deaf or “mute” person’s world, deafness is not an absence. Basically silence is a simple description not a metaphor and it the representation for darkness or barrenness, it is just an empty in the deaf world as anyone who cannot communicate verbally. Which for me I believe those that don’t sign (as I want to learn) are in silence in this world.
I do believe this baby has and will have more of a voice then many others of her peers even though she cannot pronounce words yet.
Knowing sign is a freedom of oppression of those who for far too long never learned or had a need to sign. Signing gives our world a higher level of speaking and understanding each other.

8. MSSD sees Food for thought in #9

What a great opportunity to express that communication is in all forms it doesn’t have to be a spoken language. When we travel to foreign countries we have the opportunity I believe to challenge ourselves in an area we can’t speak the language but learn to effectively communicate and potentially learn their language. Having a school that teaches deaf is a very important part of a world being a village.

9. Tour of Gallaudet and/or
Car Tour of Gallaudet
and/or ASL VLOG Tour Gallaudet Food for thought -- are verbal ways of delivering instructional content the only ways of delivering information? This location offers the same degrees as any other university, but all the classes are taught visually with ASL.

This University isn’t any different than any other as far as what it offers other than all classes are also taught visually with ASL. Because of this it is not necessary to be verbal in transmitting information within the University as you can see from the video. The University of Gallaudet is an eye opener that we need to open our world as a whole and communicate in different ways for all people. The video also made me think that we need to give everyone the same educational opportunities.

10. The Forest -- A Story in ASL with captions OR
The Forest -- A Story in ASL without captions (see side of video for more info, transcript, etc) -- also if it is available, see the making of this story -- Food for thought -- What can you say about face, body, hand shape, hand movement, hand placement in this video and or in any other video viewed so far on this page?

I noticed almost immediately the person telling this story uses a lot of facial movements. The way he expresses the information about the story with his face it is beautiful because you can see you are being told the story without words, that the majority of us are use to communicating with. It is amazing how we utilize our awareness when put in a course or place to do so and can observe differently than what we are use to or what is automatic to us, as deaf must also see themselves. The way he holds his hands in different ways and makes shapes and folds shows a lot of detail about the story and what he is saying with nothing verbal, but I believe there are so many nuances and emotions that we cannot grasp from a movie that we watch verbally but with the body language of sign the actions leap into you and the emotion and feeling of the story is so much more expressive that the level you interact with is more intense and deeper. Sign, really brings a story to life which for us being new may appear this way but to those who are deaf and don’t see different communication might not be as such and to them they may see verbally the way we see sign. I could never imagine that true, even though some of us use our hands and voice it is more just dramatic then actually passion in what is being expressed that sign seems to deliver. Sign also takes more concentration to watch then it does to listen, which is a lot of the reason I believe is also ignored to some extent today. Most people have little patience unless forced and want things so fast and quick now a days they don’t want to take the time to stop and pay attention or smell the roses, so to speak.

11. Find a video using ASL that you like and share it with us (eg CC Visual Music Project or Love Story in ASL, etc). Share this with us and tell us what you like about it.

Being in deaf environment is a culture in its own, I value this form of communication and through this particular assignment I am looking into our very own community college Santa Rosa JC’s American Sign Language Department for a schedule to learn the language of sign. I would not have otherwise felt compelled with as much compassion to relate to this form of communication and how important it is in our world to form the village I feel is mandatory to continue life. This is my story through Sign and the feeling of emotion that overwhelms me to be proactive for myself and those who I may miss acquainting myself with because I cannot speak to them. I have had my share of obstacles the main reason I am in college, this course and going toward my AS in Psychology, is because I know what being an isolated minority is. What it feels like and the reaction and relation with others and that goes missed out on.

I do not choose to miss communicating to our deaf culture from this point forward. I thank this question, the pre-post from our instructor and re-evaluating my own life with assignment # 5.

So, again I thank you, it is a matter of choice!!

Library Research, MLA reference needed

1. Once you find your article, read it (many are online) and tell us: What are two facts you believe we should all know based on one article you found?

2. Provide your citation using MLA format (if you don't know, the librarian can help or you can search on the Internet)

I went to : www.santarosa.edu/library

The article I chose was:
PERSPECTIVES ON DEAF EPISTEMOLOGIES
Peter V Paul, Donald F Moores. American Annals of the Deaf. Washington: Winter 2010. Vol. 154, Iss. 5; p. 417 (4 pages)


Daye Richardson

Professor Guerrini Elizabeth

Humanities 7

14 July 2010

The hope of this article is my first main fact I found important and that I needed to present it exactly as they put it: “Our hope is that the articles in this special issue will provide working perspectives that will stimulate further discussion and research, which, subsequently, should lead to the betterment of the educational and social lives of d/Deaf children, adolescents, and adults. At the very least, educators, clinicians, and other professionals who work with these individuals might obtain a better understanding of what they are doing and why others agree or disagree with them.” “Taken from the article”. I didn’t want to touch how powerful this was, I truly believe in education starting with our schools and this is as well were we should start implementing ASL to each and every child, as they learn much easier younger.

I thought what was the second most important of part of this article is to understand what Epistemology meaning is for those that may not know: This is the theory of knowledge of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge.

What an interesting topic to me analyzing knowledge…the truth, belief and justification. We all have skepticism about how things might transpire.
Basically my preview of this article is that the editors had truly thought that they were under pressure with time to construct “Deaf epistemologies”, this became a controversial phenomenon, because of the dissension between professionals who work with the Deaf.

They have bickered and debated over how, where and what type of instruction, curriculum and assessment to be placed in the education of deaf or hard of hearing, which has been going on in the field of education in general.

There has specially been a call for emphasis on the views and understandings of ethnic, minority groups which include women they have been more in the margins of educational theory rather than the center of its research and practice. This article bases on the essence of emerging Deaf epistemologies and the preview of universities in everyday lives of teachers, clinicians and other professionals in the conduct of epistemology. The editors were hoping by planning the series it would be the first phase evolving a more comprehensive consideration of the concept of Deaf epistemologies and the impact of understanding deafness. This article or one of what was in hope of there being eight series on this plan of introducing where the first steps should start with this but it certainly was not thought to be the reality or conclusion or anything to do with an end point, but rather the end of the beginning.

Given the complexity of the concept they were hoping these eight articles would not only give a meaning to the word epistemology itself but the goal was that the series would express different perspectives, experiences and world views from different professionals about their opinions and concepts of deaf epistemologies.

choose one multiple choice 'test' question created by each of these 10 classmates

1. In Waters of Tranquility, how many times does the author go around the lake before she asks for courage, steadfastness, compassion? (Carrie)

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3*
d. 4
e. 5

2.Where was Derek supposed to be instead of San Francisco? (Cassandra)

A.Chinatown
*B. Berkeley
C.Riverside
D.Los Angeles
E.Santa Cruz

3.From which street in San Francisco does Derek M. Powazek stray and get lost? (Erin)

a. Mission Avenue
b. Powell Street
c. Haight Street
*d. Market Street

4. What CA area is Seal Beach a part of? (Jessie)

a. Orange County
b. Los Angeles
c. San Diego
d. Santa Barbara
e. None of the above*

5. In the story Almost Home, what is bittersweet? (Daye)

• Almost home
• Kid cootie
• Oildale *
• Bakersfield
• agriculture

6. What five religions have a monument at Lake Shrine? (Kerby)

a. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism*
b. Catholic, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism
c. Islam, Christianity, Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism
d. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hinduism
e. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Atheism

7. In Cotton Candy Mirrors, the story is set in what place? (Kristine)

• Playland. *
• Santa Cruz Boardwalk
• Six Flags
• Venice Beach




8. What border city was this located in? (the line) (Lucy)

a.) Guadalupe
b.) La paz
c.) Tijuana *
d.) Mesquital
e.) San Juan

9. In the story, “Waters of Tranquility”, who was John Espey? (Natalie)

a. Carolyn See’s life partner*
b. Carolyn See’s brother
c. Carolyn See’s mother
d. Carolyn See’s father
e. Carolyn See’s friend

10. In his short story The Last Little Beach Town, what does Edward Humes state is the center of Old Town? (Summer)

A. City Hall
B. Main Street **
C. The Seal Beach Pier
D. Pacific Coast Highway
E. Crystal Cove

Create 5 multiple choice questions. 5 possible answers. Asterisk the correct answer.

1. How many series on the Article Perspectives on Deaf Epistemologies were the editor’s wanting to write:

• 1
• 3
• 5
• 8*
• 10


2. How many Authors wrote and influenced this article?

• 3*
• 5
• 7
• None
• 6


3. American Sign Language (ASL) is an official full visual-spatial language that uses:

• a. facial expression
• hand shape
• hand movement
• hand placement and body to convey meaning
• all of the above*

4. The degrees of hearing loss are:

a. mild, moderate, proximity, surround
b. mild, severe, profound, moderate,*
c. slight, severe, left, right
d. slight, severe, ochochlear, subcontaneous
e. mild, moderate, serve, pronounced

5. What symptom is common among hearing loss:

• balance *
• sense
• cough
• obsession
• worry

Create one sample of dialogue using structure

When I researched lesson 4, My California I found that Carrie had visited many of the places the book talked about. I noticed Natalie had the same search results in that we both chose the same chapters to write about. I wonder if the topic we researched would have been different if we both hadn’t chose the same topics in that both of us would have had different results with our paper.