How is it the end of the semester already?!? It feels very surreal that I am at the very end of the very last semester of University. I am not even sure where this semester went! I work full-time as an assistant director at the daycare in the town I live in and for the better part of this semester I was also coaching Sr. Basketball. With school and basketball being over now… I am not sure what I will…
I had to do it… TikTok was my last and final resource to check out for this learning project. I decided to look at this through pure coincidence and really it was always right there. When I am avoiding homework or housework… work work.. I end up scrolling through the many quick rips online. It is a dark worm hole as we (most) all know. Instant satisfaction. Then , possibly due to everything I have been searching for in my…
The Learn ASL app is one that I did not have a lot of positive things to say about. If it were one of my first resources I might have been wowed more by it but it mainly is a list of of words that you can click on. I like in my last post the list of words having an autoplay feature because then I wouldn’t have to individually click on each word to see the video to learn…
What I am learning that I didn’t assume at the beginning of this, is that there are quite a lot of free resources online for teaching ASL! With this website: startasl.com, I love that is has this getting started video for all the people starting to use the site. Learning a new language can be quite daunting on its own, let alone trying to navigate through the websites you’re trying to find to learn said language with. I feel like…
If I can be honest, I dreaded this whole learning project thing… now that I am deep into it, I am loving it!! I was really worried about not finding forums, apps, and platforms to learn from because of the struggles I have had in the past trying to teach myself songs on guitar. But I feel like I have been having a lot of great success with this journey, and I am looking forward to what I can learn…
This post will continue to be my learning from Michael with the ILU sign as a logo… the one who laughs like Blippi. It’s unfortunate that I am enjoying these videos because his laugh is just too much for me sometimes, and he and I both share that we think our own jokes are hilarious as this makes him giggle quite often… so I’m sat here trying to learn new signs and vocabulary while constantly being annoyed but also engaged…
This post’s resource is from a website with skillsharing. You get a one month’s free trial and then it is $130/year or $37/month. So far it seems like a really great resource and if you were not a student whose bank account is not optimal at the moment, this site might be one that would be worth the price. Especially because it is for more than just learning ASL. The particular class that I chose to start learning from on…
For this combined blog post, I decided to use iMovie. This is the post that stressed me out the most. I have a dinosaur of a laptop and wasn’t quite sure how I would go about this video tutorial. Then while looking through the suggested apps I saw iMovie, the app that is automatically added with one of our kazillion updates with iPhone, but I never really knew that I would need to use it until now! I am sure…
This week I have been focusing on videos on YouTube by the creator “Learn How to Sign.” This creator suggests to turn off your voice when signing in ASL because when we speak at the same time, we tend to use English grammar and ASL is its own language with its own grammar. Another tip they had was never to break eye contact and compare breaking eye contact to trying to talk to someone who is one their phone the…
This week I found an app called ASL Bloom. This app is designed similar to DuoLingo with some very large differences which is to be expected. Something I learned, which I had not even considered previous to this adventure, is that the grammar in ASL is different to that of spoken English. in English we say, “Hello, how are you doing?” in ASL they directly say, “Hello, how you?” Similar to English ASL uses accented speech to signify questions or…