Stimulated Recalls: Make Your Thinking Visible

Woman with grey hair sits by window pensively looking outside

Aim

To conduct a stimulated recall to identify what you were thinking during the interpretation process.

Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
  2. Review their thoughts and identify patterns.  

You can use this activity […]

2022-01-23T16:47:03-06:00April 9th, 2019|

Think Aloud Protocols: Make Your Thinking Visible

Woman with grey hair sits by window pensively looking outside

Aim

To conduct a think aloud protocol to identify patterns in your thinking

Time Required for Activity: 15-30 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Conduct a Think Aloud Protocol and record their thoughts.
  2. Review their thoughts and identify patterns.  

You can use this activity to address a […]

2022-01-23T16:48:44-06:00April 8th, 2019|

View “The Daily Moth”

The words Extralinguistic Knowledge written over a Graphic of an open book with a dog standing on page that is covered in grass and has a road on it.

Keep up with current events the U.S. and within deaf communities by watching The Deaf Moth.

From its web site’s “About Us” page:

The Daily Moth delivers news in video using American Sign […]

2022-01-23T16:49:48-06:00April 8th, 2019|

Texts for Baseline Interpretations

The texts below are provided for you to create a baseline interpretations for Individual Development plans. You can use other texts for this process.  These are simply designed to give you a starting point.  At the end of the monthly plan, you will re-interpret the text and see what progress you have made in improving the features that are targeted by […]

2022-01-23T16:54:17-06:00April 1st, 2019|

Life Kit: Get Out of Debt

4 stacks of quarters getting progressively taller moving to the right with a jar of coins on far right. A small plant is growing out of the top of each stack and jar.

This post has a link for three episodes on exercise from Life Kit, a series by National Public Radio.  NPR describes the series this way:

Tools to […]

2022-01-23T16:55:21-06:00March 28th, 2019|

Check Your Implicit Bias

The words Extralinguistic Knowledge written over a Graphic of an open book with a dog standing on page that is covered in grass and has a road on it. Build your extralinguistic knowledge by learning more about implicit bias.

Aim

To learn about implicit bias and understand how it affects you.

Time Required for Activity: 15 minutes

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

2022-01-23T16:56:59-06:00March 28th, 2019|

Learn about Deafhood

The words Extralinguistic Knowledge written over a Graphic of an open book with a dog standing on page that is covered in grass and has a road on it.

Build your extralinguistic knowledge by learning more about Deafhood.

This post provides you with a series of videos from Paddy Ladd, the author of “Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood.”

Aim

2022-01-23T16:59:23-06:00March 28th, 2019|

Practicing Constructed Action through Construction Tips

View looks up through steel girders of a building under construction to blue sky

Practice your use of constructed action and classifiers in this activity. Lurendran explains some tips for lifting heavy objects he learned while working construction.

You will start with a written summary of his text, create an ASL version of that, then view his original text and incorporate his descriptions […]

2022-01-23T17:01:45-06:00March 26th, 2019|

Fingerspelling Practice: Mac or PC?

A PC laptop sits on a white counter next to an iPad with headphones plugged into a phone

Practice your fingerspelled word recognition with this text comparing Macs and PCs for your computing needs.

This activity is designed in 3 parts.

Part 1:

Steps 1-2: 15 minutes

Part 2:

Steps 3-5: 30 minutes

Part 3:

Steps 6-7: 25 minutes

Working on the parts […]

2022-01-23T17:05:26-06:00March 26th, 2019|

Life Kit: Learn to Love Exercise

A pair of red roller skates on a grey wooden porch

This post has a link for three episodes on exercise from Life Kit, a series by National Public Radio.  NPR describes the series this way:

Tools to help you get it together.

NPR’s family of podcasts for navigating your life — everything from your finances to diet and […]

2022-01-23T17:06:56-06:00March 25th, 2019|
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