Check Your Implicit Bias
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:
Learn about Deafhood
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
Practicing Constructed Action through Construction Tips
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 […]
Fingerspelling Practice: Mac or PC?
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 […]
Life Kit: Learn to Love Exercise
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 […]
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 […]
Deaf Julia Childs
by Anne Marie Baer
A translation is available below in English. These are designed as resources for working with the text in ASL. They are not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.
Visual Description
An Asian-American man wearing glasses and a black polo short-sleeve shirt is shown from the waist up. He is standing in front of a dark-grey screen. A white […]
Mac or PC?/¿Mac o PC?
Samond compares and contrasts the benefits of choosing a Mac or Windows-based PC for your computing needs.
Translations/summaries are available below in both Spanish and English. These are designed as resources for working with the text in ASL. They are not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.
Visual Description
An Asian-American man wearing glasses and a black polo short-sleeve shirt is shown […]
Mini-Meditation from Headspace
Aim
To practice meditation as a tool for self-care
Time Required for Activity: 5 mins
Objective(s):
Interpreters will:
- Practice a 1 minute medication
- Compare their pulse rates before and after the meditation
Step One: Take Your Pulse
Be sure to be […]
Enhancing Physical Education/La necesidad de la pasantía para profesores de educación física
Shanna shares her perspective about a lack of internship opportunities within her major of physical education.
Translations/summaries are available below in both Spanish and English. These are designed as resources for working with the text in ASL. They are not intended to represent a definitive way to translate the text.
Visual Description
An African American woman is wearing black top and is shown from the waist […]