General
Supporting Literacy Among Deaf Children (LING095 -- fall 2014)
In this course, we will develop ebooks for young deaf children. Adults can “read” these books with the children regardless of their knowledge of American Sign Language (or lack thereof). Working from beloved picture books, we will add video clips of actors signing the stories as well as voice-overs and questions about sign language that the interested reader can click on to find information.
All students must have a rudimentary knowledge of American Sign Language or concurrently take ASL.
A background in linguistics, theater, film, early childhood development, or education would be helpful.
Students from Gallaudet University will join Swarthmore College students in this jointly taught course. We will travel to Gallaudet University three times over the semester and students from Gallaudet University will travel to Swarthmore College at least once over the semester.
Monday, 1:15 - 4pm, McCabe Computer Lab #306
Instructors: Donna Jo Napoli, Professor Linguistics, Swarthmore College and Gene Mirus, Asst. Professor, ASL and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University
We have several tasks to get working on.
1) [NO FIXED TIME] We need to make videos of the ebooks so far -- like this preview
2) [ASAP] We need to get translations of ROCKY into Japanese, Greek, Nepali (with Devanagari script)
3) We need to understand iBooksAuthor and video editing and WIDGETS for IBooksAuthor to make more interactive books
4) [by 8 Sept!!] We must come up with a list of FICTION PICTURE books that would be good for ebooks.
They must be in the public domain:http://www.smhllaw.com/articles/?p=193
and read here https://copyright.cornell.edu/
resources/publicdomain.cfm Last year we looked at these sites -- so you probably should NOT look at them this year:
Aesop's fables: http://www.simtalk.com/bibli/index1024.htm
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/kids/century/century.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Children's_Literature_(Bookshelf)#About_Children.27s_Books
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11877.Best_Children_s_Books_in_the_Public_Domain
http://diyhomeschooler.com/7-places-to-find-childrens-books-in-the-public-domain/
http://publicdomainreview.org/texts-picture-books/
INSTEAD -- please look at
1) the Smithsonian "backyard" series. They are considering allowing us to use some titles. So please pick up to five that you think would make sense, and rank them.
2) http://freekidsbooks.org/ The woman who runs it is ready to help us. we need to come up with the list of books we want (if any).
3) http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
4) the books here -- and see the attachments immediately below
The French words in the four below are few and we can do a translation easily
https://archive.org/details/MeYnagerie00Rabi
https://archive.org/details/animauxsquotamu00Rabi
https://archive.org/details/animauxenlibert00Rabi
https://archive.org/details/petitesmiseYres00Rabi
This one is in Spanish and it's a bit wordy -- but it's public domain -- so we could slim down the words and we could offer an English translation, too -- I bet I can find someone to help us rewrite it in a beautiful way in Spanish
https://archive.org/details/GazapitoyGazape00Aris
This one is absurdly long -- we would have to cut it down to at most 500 words -- and use the illustrations -- what do you think?