Ted talk

My final project has been completed. I put the finishing touches on the power point this week. The final project took a little longer to than I expected to have it finished.

However the focus I had this week was doing the ted talk. I feel that ted talk is the biggest thing part of the project. For the ted talk I had couple of things in mind I could use as my visuals. For one visual I thought about using is a picture of my sister Annalisa. She was the reason I got interested in learning ASL. Another thing I thought about using is a vocabulary box. Like show the words I knew before my project and what I learned for my project. I am still kinda nervous about giving the ted talk presentation. I do not like presenting in front of people. Also I feel like five minutes of talking is alot.

power point

My final project is coming along great. This week I focused on working on the power point. This is important because my final project is a power point presentation on American Sign Language. The thing that keeps me excited for this project is the desire to learn more about this language.

This picture just represents how this week I worked on the power point. For this week I really focused on the power point and trying finish as much as I could. Also with spring break coming up I wanted to limit my work I have to do over break. I have had the research for the project done for a while I just had to write it on the power point. I had been focusing on learning the language so is week had to be the one where I worked on the power point. The power point is the main point of this project so with the power point my project would not be anything.

grammar

This week for my twenty percent project I focused on grammar and sentence structure. This incorporates signs by using the signs I know and putting them in to sentences.

The reason I choose this picture was because it had some vocab that I had already known. Also it was one the the pictures with the shortest sentence. This pictures goes with my project because I learned grammar and sentence structures.I may not demonstrate them in my presentation but this helps with the project.  Knowing more about the language's grammar and sentence structures help learn the language. With these tools it makes the project a little easier. This knowledge also will help my communication skills with others. To be able to communicate with others after this project would be a good thing for me to be able to do. One goal I wanted to achieve was to communicate with others after this project. With this it can help me reach that goal.

Greeting

This week I worked on signing. I have been learning signs but this week I focused on my opening work.
 
This is the sign for hi. I choose this picture because I have been working my greeting for my presentation. This picture is just a basic sign to cover greeting. So for my project since I am doing it on American Sign Language I decided to open in sign language. Basic what I am saying is my first words in the presentation is going to be spoken in sign language. I will be signing hi my name is Joseph and my project is about American Sign Language. My classmates might be confused but right after I sign the greeting I will say it out loud. This was just a creative way I thought I could open up my project. Since it is on sign language I just thought opening up with spoken words would just be boring.

The signs

This week I work that will help with my final project. The final project is coming along and one thing that keeps me interested is that I want to learn more about American Sign Language.


The work I did was learning some more signs of American Sign Language. I learn the signs for mom, dad, brother, and sister. For my final project there was a part I planned to teach the class some basic signs. With these signs i would have demonstrated them in class to show that this project was not just a research but a project where I did actually learn something about American Sign Language. The picture just signifies all the signs that i learned this week. Instead of putting a picture of one I just summed them up in one. And all those signs are a part in families and that is why I choose this picture.

what"s new

Lately I just did some research on Cochlear Implants. The final product is coming a long a little slow but its getting there. The thing that keeps me excited is I want to see how my final product comes out. I want to show that i can finish the project. One thing that bothers me is the time I put in. I have to put more time outside of class on the project.
 
This is related because i just did some research on Cochlear Implants. Ms. Weck gave me the idea to do research on this topic. So I found out somethings about it. Like i wanted to find how this get started. Also I wanted to see how it works. I wanted to know how this gives deaf people ability to hear. The last thing I wanted was how the deaf community felt on these implants. I wanted to see whether they liked the implant or were they against it.

Web sites

Nided.nih/gov/health/hearing/pages/ask.aspx 

I found this website by searching background information on ASL. With my presentation I need to give  some information on like the basics of ASL.  On the website it has a lot of information on ASL. It  discusses what ASL is used for,  how to sign, and like how ASL varies from place to place. This is helpful to me because it helps me with learning the basic information on ASL.

 

Lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/grammar.htm

I found this website by searching up the grammar rules of sign language. On the website it told me sign language has separate grammar system from English. Also told me it followed topic comment arrangement.  This is helpful to me because I need to know the grammar rules when I present. I wouldn't want to show the class the wrong things about ASL. Also it helps so when I sign to other people outside of school I could make sure I'm using the right grammar