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Putting the Pieces Together

Daniel Greene Putting the Pieces Together Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene I need to take a break from Flickr and piece together some new creative projects. Instead of writing books, scholarly articles, creating and presenting workshops, putting on singing concerts, or any number of other things I might do, I've spent the past two years and two months on Flickr. [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Sat, Sep 27 2008

My First Captioned Video on YouTube!

Daniel Greene YouTube Annotations Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene When I signed on to YouTube this morning, I noticed a new feature called Annotations that allows you to add Speech Bubbles, Notes, and Spotlights to your videos. I realized right away that the first two of these types of annotations gave me a way to caption my videos. They [...]
Language Tech Tue, Jul 01 2008

Where was ASL, Deaf Presence in Super Bowl XLII?

Daniel Greene I was hoping that my colleague A Dreamer (yes, that's his name) would be televised as he interpreted the National Anthem into ASL at the beginning of the big game. Unfortunately, this year's coverage of the signing of the Star Spangled Banner was even less satisfying than last year's. Last year, we at least got [...]
Media Sun, Feb 03 2008

iTunes Movies and TV Shows — Captioned?

Daniel Greene While Apple has announced a new Apple TV and movie rentals on iTunes, now more than ever it's high time they made sure that all their video content is closed captioned. With the writers' strike affecting television programming and more people switching to downloadable content, let's not take a huge step backward by delivering a [...]
Media Language Tech Legal Fri, Feb 01 2008

Published in Eyes of Desire 2, A Deaf GLBT Reader

Daniel Greene Published in Eyes of Desire 2, A Deaf GLBT Reader Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene. I got this fortune in a fortune cookie a few weeks ago and carried it around in my wallet. Coincidentally, a story I was commissioned to write for the book eyes of [...]
Language Culture Sun, Oct 28 2007

Me Singing "Our Love Is Here to Stay"

Daniel Greene On our Alaskan cruise in June, the ship held a talent show/contest. I hemmed and hawed about joining it, but finally decided to go for it at the last minute. I chose to sing "Our Love Is Here to Stay" by George Gershwin because the band had the music, and because I had sung it on my first cruise in 1993 on Norwegian Cruise Lines (which we were traveling [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jul 30 2007

Singing & Signing "Pure Imagination"

Daniel Greene Here I am singing and signing the song "Pure Imagination" from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, one of my favorite songs since I was a little kid. And here are the lyrics: Come with me / and you'll be / in a world of pure imagination / Take a look / and you'll see / into your imagination We'll begin / with a spin / [...]
Art and Storytelling Tue, May 01 2007

Dennis Cokely "Culturally Rich Realities"...

Daniel Greene Cokely Workshop 7 of 15 Originally uploaded by danielgreene. This was the first time I had photographed a presenter giving a workshop in sign language. Those who know American Sign Language (ASL) can guess what Dr. Dennis Cokely was talking about. Those who don't know ASL– well, they can have even more fun guessing. I don't want to give away [...]
Mon, Mar 26 2007

Super Bowl Broadcast Proves Sign Language Underestimated

Daniel Greene I was excited to hear that Marlee Matlin would be signing the American National Anthem (”The Star-Spangled Banner”) at Super Bowl XLI, but was disappointed to see her on television only during the phrase “the bombs bursting in air.” Whatever happened to the “signer in the bubble”? I would think they could put an Academy [...]
Sun, Feb 04 2007

Video Response to ?My first sign language video!?

Daniel Greene The following is a translation/transcript of my ASL video response to “My first sign language video!”Hi, Ashley. Thanks for leaving a comment on my video, “ASL Intro”! Your signing is good and you fingerspell well. If you don’t know a sign, it’s perfectly fine to fingerspell. You fingerspell clearly, and good for you! — I [...]
Sat, Nov 04 2006

Hearing World Still Sides with Fernandes

Daniel Greene Thanks to my friend and colleague who tipped me off to this poll and its accompanying article: Gallaudet Dumps Incoming President - AOL News After my friend voted today shortly after noon, he wrote:What do you think of the school’s decision to fire its incoming president? It seems unfair 46% It seems fair 30% Not sure 24% Total Votes: 13,115 OK, so again, not [...]
Tue, Oct 31 2006

Open Letter to NPR Re: ?Blogs Capture, Amplify Gallaudet...

Daniel Greene I have been an ASL interpreter since 1990 and have trusted NPR as my primary news source for more than a decade. Sadly, you shook my faith in your reporting last night when you made ostensibly “factual” statements about Jane K. Fernandes that sounded like they came right out of her administration’s Public Relations Office. Dr. [...]
Thu, Oct 26 2006

Was Canonized Saint at Milan Conference?

Daniel Greene When I heard last week on NPR that an Italian priest who “helped the deaf” in the late 1800s had been canonized as a saint, I couldn’t help wondering: was he at the Milan Conference of 1880, and if so, would the signing deaf people of the world think he was such a saint?For those [...]
Mon, Oct 23 2006

Thoughts on ?Pre-Screening? ITP Candidates

Daniel Greene The “attitude” of an interpreter toward ASL and Deaf Culture is highly valued by the deaf consumers we serve. Hence, an ASL ITP should teach the attitudes and cultural values that are desired by deaf consumers. Some say that one way to weed out “unsuitable types” from ITP’s and from the interpreting field is to [...]
Mon, Oct 23 2006

Reflections on the CIT Conference

Daniel Greene Here are some of the things I learned, was reminded of, or thought about during the CIT conference I attended this past week:I was reminded that people remember most what they learn first and last (primacy and recency). In the future, when I teach a class or a workshop, I will begin and end with [...]
Mon, Oct 23 2006

Conference of Interpreter Trainers in San Diego

Daniel Greene I’m here in San Diego for the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT) conference. I came here to learn more about training ASL interpreters. The first night I was here, it was exciting to see some of the grand dames of ASL interpreting, including: Sharon Neumann Solow, Betty Colonomous, Anna Witter-Merithew and Theresa Smith. I also [...]
Fri, Oct 20 2006

Would You Want a Leader Who?s Not One of You?

Daniel Greene As an American Sign Language interpreter, I think I have a perspective of American Deaf culture and the issues at Gallaudet University that few hearing people can grasp — and, unfortunately, the messages the average hearing person gleans from the hearing media don’t seem to be doing much to illuminate the situation. I would like [...]
Fri, Oct 13 2006

?Sign-Chi-Do? Butchers ASL, Excludes Deaf People

Daniel Greene A fellow interpreter tipped me off to a bizarre website the other day called signchido.com. The website is a sort of “infomercial” for an inspirational form of “moving prayer” that attempts to incorporate ASL into Tai Kwan Do. The woman who invented it says she is a doctor who designed Sign Chi Do to help [...]
Mon, Oct 09 2006

Now You Can Closed-Caption Your Google Videos!

Daniel Greene This is my first Google video, and my first video with closed captioning. Click on the little “CC” icon to watch the captions.I must say I’m a bit frustrated by the fact that there’s no sound in the video even though I uploaded the video with sound. I uploaded it as a QuickTime movie [...]
Wed, Oct 04 2006

Closed-Captioning on Google Video

Daniel Greene This is great news for deaf and hard of hearing people — and, I think, for hearing people, too! While the world of Internet video has been hurtling forward, deaf people have been thrown backward to a time when television was not captioned. Why? Because almost none of the video on the Internet is subtitled [...]
Wed, Oct 04 2006

More about Transparency

Daniel Greene Below I quote from this Wikipedia entry about Telecommunications Relay Service: As much of the tele-relay system, particularly IP-Relay, is open for public use, it is possible for anyone with the proper equipment to place calls. This includes people who are not members of the original intended user group (i.e., persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or [...]
Thu, Sep 21 2006

abc7news.com: Deaf Community Targeted By Scam, Again

Daniel Greene The local Bay Area ABC News “I-Team” (investigative team) ran this news story on Brian Malzkuhn and Michael Johnson, two men — both college teachers who are deaf! — who ripped off deaf people in the process of being ripped off themselves by Nigerian scam artists. These men asked their deaf friends and colleagues for [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006

Been Blogging for Over a Month Now

Daniel Greene It seems that every time I get discouraged because no one is responding to my posts, I get a comment or an e-mail that reminds me I’m not just shouting in the dark. Well, I am shouting in the dark– but people are listening! Hmm… let me put that in a deaf-friendly way: I’m waving [...]
Tue, Sep 19 2006

There Are No "Inalienable Rights"!

Daniel Greene The current code of ethics for ASL interpreters is the joint NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct. That document contains in its preface a section titled, “Philosophy,” which reads as follows: The American Deaf community represents a cultural and linguistic group having the inalienable right to full and equal communication and to participation in all aspects of [...]
Wed, Sep 06 2006

I Don't Have to Interpret for Meanies

Daniel Greene Sometimes I have to remember to take care of myself and not interpret for people, organizations, or situations that I consider abusive. If I think a certain company is scamming people, then I don’t have to interpret for that company. If a certain client is abusive to me and/or everyone s/he communicates with, then I don’t [...]
Fri, Sep 01 2006

Blog Posts about Interpreting

Daniel Greene I did some more searching today, and found a new blog out there. Welcome to the blogosphere, Erica! Her first post is a school paper about what it takes to become an ASL interpreter. In my search, I also found this interesting post regarding poetry, interpretation in general, and the poetic license visible in ASL interpreting: Reading [...]
Tue, Aug 29 2006

Poetic License in Interpreting

Daniel Greene In my search for blog posts about ASL interpreting, I found this interesting post regarding poetry, interpretation in general, and the poetic license visible in ASL interpreting: Reading Finnish Rhapsody in particular reminded me of watching a live sign-language interpreter while listening to a live speech. I experienced this while at a convention when one of [...]
Tue, Aug 29 2006

Review of LiveJournal Communities re: Interpreters

Daniel Greene I have done some more reading of interpreter blogs, comparing them to my vision of an interpreter blog. Let me preface by saying that I if am critical, I hope it is in the sense of, ?expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of literature, music, or art? or ?incorporating [...]
Fri, Aug 25 2006


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