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learning adult education andragogy heutagogy

12 August 2019

What’s going on here?

This site is intended to make my life a little simpler as an instructor (and contributing practitioner to the field). read more...

learning adult education andragogy heutagogy

06 August 2019

Adult and Self-directed Learning

We teach adults in professional interpreting courses and we should respect the way that motivated adults learn.

contacting students interaction

06 August 2019

Contacting Me

Because I don’t have office hours, you may contact me at any time via e-mail or by arranging a meeting time before or after class, read more...

ASL3370 ASL English listening

05 August 2019

Course Syllabus

This course is an introduction to the skills and processes required to produce conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate spoken-language interpretations of ASL texts.

ASL3310 ASL3330 ASL3350 ASL3360 ASL3370 ASL3380 ASL439R ASL4520 FAQ

05 August 2019

Frequently Asked Questions

In which I try to answer the most common questions asked about this and other classes. Not finding what you expected? Let me know.

ASL3380 ASL English transliteration

09 June 2019

Where would I use transliteration?

If Deaf people prefer American Sign Language as their primary language, where/why would they ever use transliteration? Surprisingly enough, transliteration is used in the same settings as signed-language interpretation; where and how is transliterating used?

ASL3380 ASL English transliteration definition

09 June 2019

What is transliteration?

In order to become better practitioners of transliteration, we need to 1) better understand what it is and what it is not and 2) discuss differences and similarities in the process, product, skills and abilities, and application of transliterating work.

ASL3370 ASL English writing

09 June 2019

Writing

You'll have one or two writing assignments this semester. You should be considering these requirements as you write.

ASL3370 ASL English schedule

09 June 2019

Course Schedule

I am not teaching this course this semester.
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ASL3350 ASL English self monitoring cognitive mapping

09 June 2019

Self monitoring

Wrapping up our discussions on interpretation production, self-monitoring focuses on arguably the hardest of the discourse mapping skills, monitoring one’s own work production. What skills and factors must successful interpreters monitor while working?

ASL3350 ASL3370 ASL English interpretation organization analysis

09 June 2019

Organization and analysis of an interpreted text

Cognitive organization of a text can help interpreters mentally plan out and know where the intent of a text or discourse is going..

ASL3350 ASL English listening

09 June 2019

Miscues and error recognition in interpreting

I am not teaching this course this semester.
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ASL3380 ASL3310 ASL English transliteration continuum MCE

09 June 2019

Manual codes for English (MCEs)

Understanding transliteration morphology

Transliterating between spoken English and codes of English is not the same as interpreting between spoken English and American Sign read more...

ASL3350 ASL3360 ASL3370 ASL English memory cognitive

09 June 2019

Managing memory issues in an interpretation

This course is an introduction to the skills and processes required to produce conceptually accurate and linguistically appropriate spoken-language interpretations of ASL texts.

ASL3350 ASL English consecutive interpreting

09 June 2019

An introduction to consecutive interpreting

I am not teaching this course this semester.
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ASL3350 ASL3360 ASL3370 ASL3380 ASL English language interlingual

09 June 2019

Interlingual language development

Not only is having an expert command of spoken English and signed-language skills requisite to producing transliterated work, connecting these abilities for simultaneous production is also fundamental.

ASL3370 ASL English public speaking

09 June 2019

Giving a spoken public presentation

Intepreting is a public activity; it’s done in the company of others. So we can prepare to stand up and bare our proverbial souls to one another in class, we’ll spend some time getting used to perfoming in a public manner.

ASL3350 ASL3360 ASL3370 ASL3380 ASL English interpreting work feedback depersonalization

09 June 2019

Contexting interpretive ‘work’ and depersonalizing feedback

Discussing interpretation work is a scientific process, concerned with gathering data and scrutinizing equivalency of message from source to target, not adjectival commentary on an interpretation’s ‘goodness’ or ‘badness.’

ASL3350 ASL3370 ASL English construction reformtulation message interpretation

09 June 2019

Constructing and reformulation of message parts in an interpretation

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ASL3350 ASL3370 ASL English attending listening

09 June 2019

Attending and listening

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Social Media Minimalism Technology

20 February 2019

Digital Minimalism

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It’s the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.

React JavaScript Web Development

15 February 2019

Learn React.js in 5 minutes

A quick introduction to the popular JavaScript library.

Software Development Clean Code

10 December 2018

Clean Coding

These four “clean code” tips will dramatically improve your engineering team’s productivity

JavaScript Nodejs Web Development

01 December 2018

What the heck is a Callback?

Learn and understand the basics of callbacks in just 6 minutes with easy examples.

09 May 2018

4 Lessons After 11 Years in Silicon Valley

On the realities of opportunity, success, reputation, and relationships in tech.

GitHub Workflow

01 January 2017

GitHub Flow

GitHub Flow is a lightweight, branch-based workflow that supports teams and projects where deployments are made regularly. This guide explains how and why GitHub Flow works.

Software Development

23 July 2016

A better Hello World

A different “hello world” to demonstrate language features better.

Poetry

17 April 2016

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying read more...

Version Control

09 February 2016

What is version control?

Benefits of version control and version control systems.

External Post Git

25 September 2015

How to undo your git failure?

Using `git reflog` and `git reset` to save your code.

About this Site

What’s going on here?

Adult and Self-directed Learning

Contacting Me

Course Syllabus

Frequently Asked Questions

Where would I use transliteration?

What is transliteration?

Writing

Course Schedule

Self monitoring

Organization and analysis of an interpreted text

Miscues and error recognition in interpreting

Manual codes for English (MCEs)

Understanding transliteration morphology

Managing memory issues in an interpretation

An introduction to consecutive interpreting

Interlingual language development

Giving a spoken public presentation

Contexting interpretive ‘work’ and depersonalizing feedback

Constructing and reformulation of message parts in an interpretation

Attending and listening

Digital Minimalism

Learn React.js in 5 minutes

Clean Coding

What the heck is a Callback?

4 Lessons After 11 Years in Silicon Valley

GitHub Flow

A better Hello World

Do not go gentle into that good night

What is version control?

How to undo your git failure?