Hey Jasman – what an amazing idea for your Genius Hour Project!! I think that it was a fantastic idea to learn sign language during this project as this new learning helps to promote the understanding and acceptance of the language, especially for your future in teaching (you never know when you may need to use it!).
Star 1: First of all, I love the layout of your blog posts!! You have included so many different gifs, photos, videos, and bitmoji's, which helped to enhance your content and give your blog a nice personal touch.
Star 2: I really like your approach for this project and love how you included videos of yourself to show the various words that you learned, as well as how you included your most and least favourite signs/words of the week!
Wish: While I love how you included short videos in your weekly postings, I think it would have been a cool idea to have recorded a video of yourself to show the process of you learning these different words/letters for one of your weekly postings.
Overall, I really enjoyed your blog and the amazing work and effort you put into this project!! 😊
That is such a great idea! I wish I had thought to include videos of me actually learning the sign, that would have been great to see in the future. It wouldn't have worked for some weeks but it would have been great to see for the alphabet and the numbers.
Hi Jasman! I loved the idea of your project! What an amazing topic to learn about and a useful one for both everyday life and for your future teaching practice!
Star 1: I really liked the different ways you used to express informtion within your blog! Using both text and visual components when explaining certain content (i.e., cerain sign language words and phrases) was really nice, especially for those who are visual learners!
Star 2: I also really liked how you broke down your research, so that those reading your blog could learn sign language with you! Your combination of teaching your readers and documenting your own experiences learning sign language was extremely engaging. It made be want to come back for more after each post!
Wish: It is clear that you put a ton of work within this blog and your research! Though, one thing that I would have liked to have had is a resource list of where you were getting your information on learning sign language from. Your blog has gotten me interest in learning sign language myself and a resource list would have been great to know where to start myself!
Overall, you have an amazing blog and I really enjoyed reading through it!
Hey Grace, I wish I had thought to include the resources at the end of the blog. I saw your blog and it was amazing how you included a reference list at the bottom. I will see if I am able to include them, thank you so much for the suggestion!
This is week 10 of my Genius Hour Project. This week the focus was to review all the signs I have learned up-to-date, which I have to say was not easy as I learned around ~300 signs. All of the words I have learned during this project! The Review Process The review process was very difficult as there were a lot of signs I had to review. I started off by first making a file of all the words I have learned so far in sign language. Then I went through all the words and checked to see which signs I remembered and which ones I had forgotten. Spoiler alert , I had forgotten most of them! At this point I decided to re-watch the videos where I originally learned these signs. I found this to be very helpful, but it is still is a LOT of signs and I am not confident that I will remember them all. In order to remember these signs I have to start using them in daily conversation which is something I am not doing (even though each week I say I will do this). I feel like I will have to create a ...
Hello everyone and welcome to my Blog! My name is Jasman Nagra and I am currently in the Concurrent Education Program at Brock University. My teachables are biology and chemistry. I don't think I have ever written a blog before so this is pretty new to me, but it seems interesting and fun so I am excited to see where this blog will go! The topic I have chosen for my Genius Project is to learn sign language. I remember trying (where I would try for a day and give up) to learn it in elementary and middle school. I was interested in learning sign language when I was younger because I remember that in the agenda's that we were given, there would be a page dedicated to showing the alphabet in sign language. I always thought it would be cool to learn it, but it was difficult as some of the signs looked the same. My interest was peaked again when I watched A Quiet Place and The Silence . It would be a very useful skill to know in case we have aliens that are sens...
Welcome back to my Blog! This is week four of my Genius Hour project and this week I finally started learning gestures in sign language. I can say that I feel confident about some of the signs I have learned this week and I can finally start to sign some short sentences (albeit rather slowly). However, I still have difficulty understanding signing when its being down in normal speed, I definitely need the other person to sign slowly, so I can recognize the gestures and have time to process what is being signed. Learning process This week I have been watching Bill Vicars Lessons to learning sign language and not going to lie I kind of wish I had learned the alphabet first. He uses the alphabet a lot in his videos and I am just sitting there lost as to what he is signing with the alphabet. On the positive side I have learned some of the letters. I know the letters, a, b, s, l and o. B and O I mainly know because when he would ask for his student to sign out a name, I would sign ...
Hey Jasman – what an amazing idea for your Genius Hour Project!! I think that it was a fantastic idea to learn sign language during this project as this new learning helps to promote the understanding and acceptance of the language, especially for your future in teaching (you never know when you may need to use it!).
ReplyDeleteStar 1: First of all, I love the layout of your blog posts!! You have included so many different gifs, photos, videos, and bitmoji's, which helped to enhance your content and give your blog a nice personal touch.
Star 2: I really like your approach for this project and love how you included videos of yourself to show the various words that you learned, as well as how you included your most and least favourite signs/words of the week!
Wish: While I love how you included short videos in your weekly postings, I think it would have been a cool idea to have recorded a video of yourself to show the process of you learning these different words/letters for one of your weekly postings.
Overall, I really enjoyed your blog and the amazing work and effort you put into this project!! 😊
That is such a great idea! I wish I had thought to include videos of me actually learning the sign, that would have been great to see in the future. It wouldn't have worked for some weeks but it would have been great to see for the alphabet and the numbers.
DeleteHi Jasman! I loved the idea of your project! What an amazing topic to learn about and a useful one for both everyday life and for your future teaching practice!
ReplyDeleteStar 1: I really liked the different ways you used to express informtion within your blog! Using both text and visual components when explaining certain content (i.e., cerain sign language words and phrases) was really nice, especially for those who are visual learners!
Star 2: I also really liked how you broke down your research, so that those reading your blog could learn sign language with you! Your combination of teaching your readers and documenting your own experiences learning sign language was extremely engaging. It made be want to come back for more after each post!
Wish: It is clear that you put a ton of work within this blog and your research! Though, one thing that I would have liked to have had is a resource list of where you were getting your information on learning sign language from. Your blog has gotten me interest in learning sign language myself and a resource list would have been great to know where to start myself!
Overall, you have an amazing blog and I really enjoyed reading through it!
Hey Grace, I wish I had thought to include the resources at the end of the blog. I saw your blog and it was amazing how you included a reference list at the bottom. I will see if I am able to include them, thank you so much for the suggestion!
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