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|

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|

Fingerspelled Word Recognition: Know Your Bike Parts

This clip runs from 0:00 to 0:22. Watch the entire clip and then create an interpretation.
If you wish to re-watch it, you need to re-fresh the page or manually move it back to the beginning of the clip.

Once you are done with this clip, close the window and click the next number.
This clip runs from 0:22 to […]

2022-01-23T17:11:12-06:00March 25th, 2019|

Mini-Meditation from Headspace

A light orange rectangle with the words

Aim

To practice meditation as a tool for self-care

Time Required for Activity: 5 mins

Objective(s):

Interpreters will:

  1. Practice a 1 minute meditation
  2. Compare their pulse rates before and after the meditation

Step One: Take Your Pulse

Be sure to be sitting down with both feet planted on […]

2022-01-23T17:17:14-06:00March 12th, 2019|
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