October 14th – We managed to learn how to spell our names but we have not memorized it yet. We are using the ASL alphabet. I did not know there were other versions of sign language which I found pretty interesting. Also the way you count numbers are way different then how we would do them, in sign language the only use one hand and can count to 10.

October 28th – We learned how to say things such as “Hello” and “Brother / Sister” we also learned some other family signs I found it interesting how when ever you talked about a male you would use your forehead and if you talked about a female you used your chin. We have been watching YouTube videos by Bill Vicars. He makes great facial expressions and seems to be the best you can find to learn ASL.

November 11th – We learned some basic sentences such as “Hello my name is” and “How are you?” we found it challenging to say someone’s name while in a sentence because you have to spell out each and every letter. But what we also learned is that someone can give you a nickname so then your name could be one movement.

November 25th – We have started to work on what we are going to say in our film. Also  we are learning more sentences, more complex sentences. though, we were not able to speak in sign language to each other all the time like we expected. We are a bit behind what we had set for ourselves by today we were suppose to be talking to each other in sign language only, I guess sign language was more difficult than what we expected.

December 2nd –  Today, Ryan was away so Daniel and I decided to work on the video. My job today was to find some example presentations to see how they go. So then we can see in what format to put the video in. Meanwhile Daniel is working on typing out the script.

We have decided on a similar format but with speaking in it.

January 13th – We are  filming for the presentation  We hope all the effort and time we put into this will pay off in helping others. We’ve a lot of problems along the road. but our goal is  “always was to present how strongly communication is to people and what happens without it.”ASL is something we think 1 out of 3 people should understand. this is the final post and I still have to be filmed as the main character in our video.