Studying and celebrating the different.
My dissertation chair has the first complete draft of my dissertation. Most of it has been revised according to his feedback, so I'm feeling good about it. I think we're both hoping that whole thing will be done this semester. That means I can start working on other things. Like going back to my master's… Continue reading Onward and backward?
I live in Ohio. In the spring, Governor DeWine signed SB1 into law, making it much harder for me to exist as a cultural studies scholar in Ohio. You can look up the details if you'd like, but it is a bill aimed at removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from public colleges and universities across… Continue reading Relief
It's the end of the semester and I find myself wondering the same thing that I have been at this time for the last few years, "Am I assigning too much reading?" I try really hard to find readings for my students that relate to class but aren't overly jargon-based or are really long. It's… Continue reading Too much reading?
That has been calmly popping up in my brain the whole way home today. Let me give you context. I arrived on campus early today and chilled in the car, continuing to listen to my audiobook, before heading in to get things set up for class. Two of my three students are already there. Yay!… Continue reading “That was a disaster”
Sorry about the title. But I've had "I've Got a Theory" from the Buffy episode "Once More With Feeling" stuck in my head lately. For the past two school years, I have been lucky enough to be a masters student in the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU. It is the only program of its kind in the… Continue reading I have a theory, it’s in my thesis!
Thanks to this cool article and video on NewNowNext.com, I've found a new show that I wish we could watch over here. Who knows what it could inspire. It's called Free Speech. It's a show on BBC Three and is a "Live debate and discussion show coming fortnightly from across the UK. Free Speech viewers… Continue reading Free Speech
Below is a wonderful video that discusses "Deaf" from many angles. It is a very well done and immensely informative video. It is subtitled for those whose ASL skills aren't up to following the presenter. It is a little long, but it's really worth the watch!
Today’s educational system focuses on spoken language, isolating students who use visual language from what is going on inside and outside of the classroom. But if all the students and teachers had some degree of fluency in both ASL and English, everyone would benefit. Language barriers both inside and outside of the classroom would come… Continue reading Universal ASL Education – To sum it up
By now you may be thinking, “Well that’s a great idea, but how are we going to have teachers using both ASL and English to teach?” Thankfully we have existing education models: bilingual-bicultural classrooms. In the article "Addressing Students' Language Needs in a Bilingual ASL and English Classroom", three teachers share their experience at the… Continue reading Universal ASL Education – Existing Models
There are two groups that we need to focus: teachers and children. Teachers would be the biggest hurdle at first. Colleges would have to include a specific level of ASL fluency in their graduation requirements. This also means that a standardized ASL curriculum must be agreed upon by all colleges. Colleges would have to work… Continue reading Universal ASL Education – Two Groups
Deviate from the Norm 