The Beginning of my journey at Gallaudet University
Shining up to the Deaf World I'm officially an undergraduate student at Gallaudet University! I also am proud to share the news that I am majoring in Psychology. My journey begins---I will be posting more vlogs/blogs---sharing my thoughts related to discussions in classrooms... If any of you want to share your thoughts/discussions- pls free to do so:-DJade
Higher Education Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Who Cares About the Blood? How's the Eye?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Our eyes are very important to deaf people. We depend on them so much because for us, communication is so visual. So this morning, when I fell and hit my...
Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 10 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NAD Ezine Issue
submit by: NAD 49th Biennial Conference Wrap-Up 2008 Conference Priorities Posted 2008 Conference Resolutions Posted 2008 Council of Representatives Meeting Minutes Posted Look for photos and memories of the conference in the July-August NADmag! Check out the NAD Conference blogs and vlogs.
Media Legal Culture Tech Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 11 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What’s the Buzz
Sudden Silence Here’s what’s happening: The buzzing is gone!  I pretty much never get that weird buzzing sound anymore.  When I first put my CI's on in the morning now, it is just VERY loud.  It takes about one minute for the sound to level off and get normal again. I had my second mapping on Wednesday morning, Aug. [...]
Tech Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 13 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

11: Here We Go Again!
The Countdown To The Resurrection Thousands of Deaf people tuned in last Tuesday night to watch the premiere of fourth season on Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency mainly because they wanted to root for Martin ‘Marty' Ritchie. Not only that, there were encores of that show repeatedly all night long on Oxygen Channel and twice the next day. Naturally, many of [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 13 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DBC in the News
Deaf Bilingual Coalition DBC was featured in the August 2008 issue of SIGNews, in an article written by staff writer Jennifer Dans-Wiley. To read...
Media Language Audism Education Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Relearning Life
SayWhatClub Weblog Have you seen the becomeanex.org commercials that focus on relearning life without cigarettes?  The subjects of these commercials are going through their daily routines, but seem to be having trouble with even the most simple of tasks because of not physically having a cigarette in their hand.  I know you have seen them: A woman stumbles to her car, fumbling [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Do You Believe Me Now?
SpeakUpLibrarian My husband landed in hot water with me this week and the story is pretty amusing (as told by me naturally) so I thought I'd share it.On Monday I heard the strangest noise coming from the basement. I was upstairs in the kitchen at the time. I went down to investigate and traced it to the hot water heater. Bang, bang, bang. Alarmed, I called my husband to come down righ...
Art and Storytelling Fri, Aug 29 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

YouTube Captions are “native” now
bill creswell As you may have already heard by now, YouTube has CC now. [link] This is welcome, and long overdue. It will accept .srt captions that Overstream creates, so your captions that you have already created can be imported, and used immediately. But you can only add captions to your own video. This is a big limitation, because I don't [...]
Media Language Tech Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

“Silent Odyssey, Journey Into the Deaf World” Trailer
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers May I promote to you this touching film about Filipino Deaf, their history and their current issues of discrimination and oppression? The movie was produced and directed by Mirana Medina, a famous Filipino film editor.
Media Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

the WB is relaunching as a theWB.com - without captions
bill creswell New site for watching on line television shows in there entirety. theWB.com Features shows like Angel, Smallville, OC, Gilmore Girls, MADTV, Roswell, Babylon 5, Buffy. Interesting site, and shows, but no captions found anywhere. Comment to them on their blog [link] - I did. We'll see if there is a response. It's a shame for a great startup [...]
Media Tech Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Speaking Out - By Rodney Adams BA, DipEd, MstSpecEd
The Rebuttal Auslan translation  Click here. Recent Australian figures show that 25% of science teachers do not have a science qualification and about one quarter of maths teachers do not have a major in maths. I am sure that the statistics of teachers of the deaf with no expertise in Sign Languages would be far higher. Not [...]
Education Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

i can move mountains: YouTube announces support for...
Inaudible Nonsense   Apparently, I can change the course of media overnight (be sure to leave your suggestions and tips in the appropriately places, I will take requests on a first come/highest tipper basis). YouTube announced support for subtitles and captioning. See the announcement at TechCrunch.
Tech Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Challenges of Learning Sign Language
Jamie Berke (About.com) A few weeks ago, I blogged the question, "Is Learning Sign Language Too Hard?" Many people responded, and selected comments have been included in the new article, "Challenges of Learning...
Audism Education Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Job interviews? What do you do?
It is what it is. So, last week I was contacted by a job recruiter from out of state via E-mail about a job opening in my area with a well known company. So, I give the recruiter a call, but before doing so...I request a male VRS  interpreter and tell the interpreter TO NOT ANNOUNCE that it is a [...]
Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

REVIEW: T-Mobile introduces “Sidekick 2008”
Deaf411Online Blog [DEAF411] - The latest release of T-Mobile’s new Sidekick 2008 on July 28th as an “all-in-one” communication device with many upgraded features is enough to spark interest in the deaf community, most notably being able to record, playback, and send video e-mails! The T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 is an upgraded version of the Sidekick LX, based on [...]
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How to tell you are deaf
Say What? more animals I saw this in one of my online deaf communities that I subscribe to. Too funny I had to share! This also reminds me of the several times I accidentally had my tv's volume on and above the medium range on the volume bar, and realized only hours later, that I had been blaring my [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

YouTube Finally Adds Closed Captions
Proud Geek Long-time readers of my blog may remember that I had a series of posts explaining how to caption your videos and recommending that they be posted onto Google Video — at that time the only “major” video host that supported .srt files (where closed captions are stored). YouTube, ironically also owned by Google, finally added the [...]
Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Acquitted of A Murder, A HIV Positive Deaf Man Bit Officer...
Mishka Zena  Police: Man Who Bit Officer Tests Positive For HIV - News Story - WSB 4.    Excerpts: Police say the incident began when an officer tried to pull over Deadwyler for driving with a broken headlight, but the man sped off. Authorities eventually caught Deadwyler, but he bit an officer as he reached into the suspect's [...]
Media Legal Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Growing new ear hairs that can boost hearing: study
submit by: anonymous Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals, according to a study released Wednesday. The proof-of-concept experiments are a crucial step toward therapies that could one day treat deafness and inner-ear disease in humans, said the study, published in the British journal Nature.
Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Playing with Captioned Video Search
bill creswell Hey, since it's tough to find what videos have closed captions, I have started up couple of different search ideas to look for stuff at sites that provide captioned video. My Search: [link] is a homegrown idea, that pulls the results from different sites search functions. This will be flexible, in that I can use vodpod to [...]
Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Bilateral CI research findings
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 I will post my findings on the issue of bilateral CI on my blog. Hopefully it helps someone else too... I want to collect the data concerning this debate, in order to get an oversight of what the medical community discover, as well as what they are writing and thinking about this issue. Papers found in [...]
Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

the video web: leaving the Deaf out of politics?
Inaudible Nonsense Web video has changed a lot about advertising, PR and broadcast media. Yet it's fairly easy enough to avoid, or at least ignore. I have enough distractions as it is, so if there isn't a large world of captioned video on the web it didn't really feel like any great loss. Until the 2008 presidential campaign. With YouTube [...]
Media Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What Happened Tonight!
The Deaf Perspective Blog entries? Noo I am going to sleep! Tomorrow, I gotta get up at 5 to work at the INVESCO field all day! How exciting! However, I need my rest so I can get you champ information on this blog tomorrow... Keep your fingers crossed for excellent footage!Here's a list of who I shook hands with/ have pictures of from tonight's personal interactions:Jesse JacksonJamie Fox...
Media Thu, Aug 28 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Deaf Perspective is Officially on BBC's Website!
The Deaf Perspective Big Hands wave!! [link] of my videos is officially featured on the BBC website!- Leah
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