A brief promo on upcoming “The Hammer” film shown all over the country among the Deaf schools and community events! I had an opportunity to watch the movie and I was truly impressed on the whole thing: editing, filming, and how they use Deaf characters in the film. Kudos to producers, directors, actors and actresses!
For more information or planning events in your area, contact Nathan Montoya. His email address is in this vlog!
You also can learn more about “The Hammer” film by going to www.thehammerfilm.com
Special Announcement: the website – www.braamjordaan.com is released! Braam is one awesome young Deaf gentleman with many talents. He is the future of Deaf generation. Kudos to all of his work and we look forward to many more!
Be sure to buy Braam’s Sipho the Lion DVD to support his work!! Not only that but to browse his website and appreciate his work!
Today on August 13, 2011, George Veditz turns 150! George is actually our hero who fought for full equality for our language, American Sign Language. We should recognize and honor him more than ever across the country.
This vlog is a response to “Technology and Deaf Culture” news program that was shown on PBS in 2001. In that program, Dylan Craig was the focus point on how CI will help him. It led me to wonder how Dylan is doing these days?
Not only that but the video also helped me realize that we can re-frame ourselves by pointing out the advantages of using ASL. The Bahan family is shown in this program showing the benefit of ASL which should be the focal point of the whole program.
Found this videotape and it made me wonder what has become of Dylan Craig these days? Is he actually “hearing” by now? Is he learning with help of ASL?
It is also interesting to see how people thought Deaf is a big deal back then. How did this change?
On June 5, 2011, 4 organizations, Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC), Deaf Counseling and Referral Agency (DCARA), Deafhood Foundation and San Francisco Club of the Deaf (SFCD) hosted Douglas Tilden 5k Walk/Run for Deaf Humanity at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
This is an experiment in developing a friendly news program for Deaf children. Since Deaf people and children are “visual learners”, we need to develop and provide more friendly visual programs! If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please do. Thank you.
Bell Tower News have a special report on the Operation Geronimo. For teachers, you can use the guided questions for classroom discussion.
Special Report: Operation Geronimo
Guided Questions
Keywords:
Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, September 11, 2001, Terrorism, Muslim Ritual
Guided Questions:
1. What is Operation Geronimo?
2. What happened on September 11, 2001? How many people died?
3. Can you find Pakistan and Afghanistan on a map? In which region would you find these two countries?
4. What are the Muslim’s beliefs and ritual for burials?
5. Why was the decision made to bury Osama bin Laden at sea?
6. Why wouldn’t some countries assume responsibility for accepting his burial in their country?
7. How will bin Laden’s death affect America and worldwide?
8. How do you feel about people celebrating (jumping for joy) when they learned about bin Laden’s death?
Related Links:
The front page of 76′s country’s newspaper on Osama’s death
