Resources for Professional Sign Language Interpreters (ASL439R)
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About this Course
This course is a collaborative seminar designed to 1) bring students and the professional signed language interpreter community together to 2) create an up-to-date, online open-source resource of professional practices, standards, and support materials. Upon successful completion of this course, students will demonstrate abilities in:
- academic and materials research, especially of current market forces and resources un/available to working SL interpreters
- compiling existing and writing/editing original articles for public use
- collaborative learning and networking with local/national interpreter practitioners and UVU ASL & Deaf Studies interpreter graduates
- evaluating and applying varieties of publishing, communication, and content development technologies
- understanding philosophies of open educational resources, Creative Commons licensing, and professional development within the SL interpreting community
- (preparing a presentation/paper for the Deaf Studies Today! international conference)
When completed, students will not only have created a self-published book and earned a publishing credit, but also will have created a live and vital resource for the community in which they intend to work. They also will have initiated network possibilities in their own cohort and with local and national private-practice interpreters.
A significant portion of this course requires self-directed efforts (asychronously working with other teammates) and fairly good command of web-based technologies and learning environments (video creation, salient discussion and reporting skills; we’ll discuss this more in class).
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