ASL Professor Carl's e-Portfolio

My primary purpose of this "ASL e-Portfolio" is to support teaching and learning American Sign Language (ASL) directly. It tells stories of my evolving understanding of myself, of my ASL students, and of my professoriate, drawing on materials not only from academic work but also from a wide variety of life experiences during my college teaching years. We learn something important through the process of reflecting on our work and communicating it to others in the form of this ASL e-Portfolio.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

ASL101: Take Home Final Project

There are two ways to answer the final exam question: (1) Select and transcribe in uppercase glosses (GLOSSES) a "freesigning" video (maximum three minutes) that you think best represents what you have been learning in this course, ASL101. (2) Translate your glosses into the best equivalent possible English. You can prepare your video on DVD, if you’re submitting your paper to me, or you can email your video and paperwork to me at cschroeder@clackamas.edu. The length or repetition in ASL doesn't matter.

2 comments:

CodyNovember 30, 2011 at 6:39 PM
I hate to ask, but what are GLOSSES?
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AD HorstDecember 5, 2011 at 9:24 AM
Cody, lifeprint.com has some useful info on glosses at http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/gloss.htm

In English you might say, "I have read that book." ASL would sign it more as "book, that, read, finished."
The gloss would be in all-caps and include information on handshape, classifiers, facial grammar, etc., whatever info would be needed to duplicate the original signing.
For example it might look like this...BOOK CL:B CL: 1 READ FINISH

I'm not the greatest at it, but that is the basic idea of GLOSSES.
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