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

ASL201: Final Exam with Two Parts plus a Bonus Question

1. Do a three minutes of Freesigning. Freesigning is like Peter Elbow's Freewriting. See the handout about this nonstop expression and watch your own Freesigning videos in your e-Portfolio. You may create a new video if you believe you have new idea. For each sign (or classifier) in the video, you are to write a transcription of glosses

(http://webpages.csus.edu/~bad51/ASLGlossingDirections.pdf)

in capital letters.

2. Translate and annotate the above video transcription in the best equivalence of English, bearing in mind the spirits of free expression and repetition.

Bonus.

Discuss the following ASL compounds written in glosses. Make H-M-H denotations to show which hold bundles undergo the H-deletion.

TEACHER

DANCER

DOCTOR

ARTIST

LAWYER