Category: Learning Project

I cannot believe this is my last ASL blog post! I have learned so many signs, and feel like I was just hitting my stride and learning what worked well for me. For the last few weeks I had been learning to sign Vienna by Billy Joel, and unfortunately,...

This week I continued with my goal of learning to sign Vienna by Billy Joel and boy did I continue to struggle! The chorus was even harder to learn that the first verse. One tricky word, in particular, is halfway as it is a very complicated sign. I had...

Last week I set a goal to learn how to interpret a song as I have seen online. I was inspired by this video of a daughter interpreting for her dad at a concert! I set out this week starting to learn how to interpret Vienna by Billy Joel...

I finally figured out a concrete idea of what I would like to do for my final learning project! Have you ever seen those videos of people interpreting at a concert? Like this daughter signing the words for her dad! I am aiming to do this to combine my...

I had a hard time deciding what I was going to do this week. I have tried a lot of technology in my life, so I struggled to find something new to me. I didn’t want to switch up my video editor since I have tried other editors in...

This week I decided to tackle the 5 W’s so I could try to ask questions. This turned out to be harder than it seemed. I headed to my trusty ASL App to tackle the task. After getting a handle on the signs for who, what, when, where, and...

This week I paired learning numbers with some research on the history of ASL. I wanted to know more background on the language I was choosing to learn. The history of ASL started in 1814 when deaf education began in the United States. The American School for the Deaf...

This week I conquered the alphabet! I used The ASL App to learn the alphabet, and I liked how they have the app set up. First, they show you a close up of how your hand position should be for all the letters. Once you have mastered that, you...

My interest in American Sign Language (ASL) started when I was around five years old. One of my favourite movies was MVP: Most Valuable Primate, which was about a monkey that played hockey. I know what you are thinking, what does that have to do with sign language? Well,...