- I have officially hired my friend & tutor as a research assistant! She is a native ASL signer, she is Deaf, and she will be running the experiments and teaching me how to interact with kids in ASL (did I mention I'm hearing? I've worked with kids in English and French, but not ASL yet).
- I met with a wonderful group of native ASL signers Saturday Feb 19th to go over the pairs of words for the research experiment. Thank you, and thank you to the interpreter as well! (I'm trying not to mention names, since I haven't asked anyone if I can include their name)
- I met with Manitoba School for the Deaf to ask for help in recruiting kids for the pilot project
- I'm working to add ASL video to the research info for parents page soon
- I applied for an received an amendment to the Ethics, since I want to meet with a few hearing kids too about the English side of things.
- I'm trying to keep calm and healthy and happy and well-slept so I can workworkworkworkworkwork!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Workingworkingworkingworking.....
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ethics Received!!!!!
The anticipation is over!!! I'm so excited!!!!
I'm going to send out emails galore today to try to get the ball rolling! (O.k. my wonderful supervisor will also be sending out emails, I can't take ALL the credit!) I've got to get the pilot study finished by the end of March so I can have a presentation for the conference in June!
In other news...
The semantic judgment survey went well, I had many responses. I've gone through them and cut the 529 pairs os stimuli down to 208 pairs! But there are 4 different categories and now I will need some more pairs for some categories, fewer pairs for other categories....
Now I'm now re-scheduling a phonological judgment survey with the help of my wonderful ASL tutor, to ask native signers what their opinion is of how similar each pair of signs looks.
I'm taking part in the Curling Funspeil in support of the Manitoba Deaf Curling Club this weekend. I'm so excited, and a little nervous, to meet new people, to try curling again (it's been ~17 years since I've curled! wow, that makes me sound old!), to be immersed in ASL....and to taking AN ENTIRE WEEKEND OFF to have FUN!
That's all I can think of. I've been marking exams...and then dreaming about marking exams at night....so I'm a little spacey!
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I'm going to send out emails galore today to try to get the ball rolling! (O.k. my wonderful supervisor will also be sending out emails, I can't take ALL the credit!) I've got to get the pilot study finished by the end of March so I can have a presentation for the conference in June!
In other news...
The semantic judgment survey went well, I had many responses. I've gone through them and cut the 529 pairs os stimuli down to 208 pairs! But there are 4 different categories and now I will need some more pairs for some categories, fewer pairs for other categories....
Now I'm now re-scheduling a phonological judgment survey with the help of my wonderful ASL tutor, to ask native signers what their opinion is of how similar each pair of signs looks.
I'm taking part in the Curling Funspeil in support of the Manitoba Deaf Curling Club this weekend. I'm so excited, and a little nervous, to meet new people, to try curling again (it's been ~17 years since I've curled! wow, that makes me sound old!), to be immersed in ASL....and to taking AN ENTIRE WEEKEND OFF to have FUN!
That's all I can think of. I've been marking exams...and then dreaming about marking exams at night....so I'm a little spacey!
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