69th clip. Text below is partial from the deaf child website.
Deaf History Commentary: The 6.9 clip's historical background is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's stay at INJS to study the manual education method and French Sign Language. One interesting thing to ponder about. Thomas Gallaudet learned the older form of LSF when he first arrived in Paris (if not before in England). He did not learn American Sign Language! How all that was signed between Laurent Clerc and T.H. Gallaudet became ASL is a story! It begs more scrutiny. The next clips in chapter 7 will be on that. Thomas Gallaudet is number one when discussing the beginning of American deaf education but Laurent Clerc is number one when discussing the history of American Sign Language. We need to elevate our deaf historical events into the mythological and psychological realms to make it more significant for us to live today and work for in the future.
As we go along into the second half, one question to masticate. What is the significance of VisMa in the whole story? Should I remove VisMa (remove the god-element) and make this story a historical fiction or a historical novel in ASL? If so, then the story won't be a myth but something else. Myth-making is a blend of two things: our dDeaf life with its psychic baggage and archetypal fiction-making. I am fascinated in toying around with a story reflecting the past, the present, and the future of my own culture/society. Is it the same for all those "crazy" people zealously who produce sacred works in humanity? A culturally deaf person makes a personal mythology out of her own history and current life as a tool to study her own deafhood. The convergence of deafhood, the internet, and mythmaking. Story-making, fiction-making, and myth-making built upon permanent media brings out forth progress and development for the language and literature of deaf/sign signers even more. Ain't that exciting?
New clips in ASL sprouting everywhere in the internet. ASL definitely will be shaped over time in tangent with "video in the internet". Look at the current videos debating how to sign 20-10. ASL classrooms in the internet will become easier to implement with some 8 video windows inside a screen so interaction can occur in real time. ASL classes continues to grow with more and more hearing people learning sign language and visi-centrality. Deaf/sign cultures are flowering at a speedier rate with more of our language and literature on improved tools of mass communication. Definitely a jump time, discussed by Jean Houston, for the deaf community.
For years, ASL literature is mostly performance based where one stands up and sign in front of an audience. No more with new electronic tools, ASL artists can go back and revise their art and polish them into better literature. For a long time, it was hard for me as well as for many signers. It was hard to publish ASL in ASL. No more, ever more.
Video in the Internet (Vlogs, You-Tube, DVTV/DR) are our stylus on the clay and the ink on the vellum.
Like Krentz discussed in his article, "The Camera as a Printing Press" in Signing the Body Poetic book, the videocamera in the internet has became the printing press ("Gutenberg Bible") for the sign language communities. We now can leave our literary works into somehow more permanent medium and inspire others to produce better ones. The medium of mass communication within the deaf community has been transformed. This cycle is churning in an amazing rate. We now can view video in hand-held devices and soon be able to sign to our families and friends through videophone inside them.
This process now begins for the sign/deaf community - like what the transition from "the oral" to "the print" did to humanity long ago.
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet meets Alice Cogswell and Laurent Clerc-Part II.by NeaLAUGH2,479 views
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