Reflection:
The process of learning ASL has been a lot more complicated than I actually expected. I find it difficult to know what to learn each week in an organized way. I almost wish their was an app or website that tells you exactly what to learn week by week to make you fluent in ASL. I have definitely learned that for a person to learn ASL, it takes a considerable amount of time. I don’t even think I have cracked 0.0002% of ASL culture! This “Fluent in 3 months” website actually gives an awesome insight into all the different things that people need to take into consideration when learning ASL. I think as a teacher, I even find it hard to organize the content and figure out what to learn first and then what comes next etc. I definitely plan on keeping learning ASL and trying new things!
Here are 5 reasons from the website “eLearning Industry” that describes why Learning Sign Language is so important! Check it out!
This week:
As my video states, this week I did something a bit new and different than the previous weeks. I try and keep things a bit interesting for my readers! Like teaching, no one wants to learn something the same exact way every time… Boring! So this week to create my learning project, I researched some common ASL phrases. The first website that came up was called, “Signing Savvy.” It was an awesome website that gave me several different phrases and a video to go with each phrase which I found very helpful. I then picked a phrase, learned it and took pictures of myself creating that sign. When I put the pictures all together in IMovie, it made one long video! Ps. I use I-movie for most of my videos and I love it! So easy to add your own music and create videos!
I created three total ASL phrases in the video! The first one was from Signing Savvy and it says, “I am learning Sign Language.” The second one was from the website “Start ASL” and I signed “My name is Hailie.” The third one was from the website “Life Print” and I signed, “Today is Sunday.” So all those signs are in the order of the video in case you wanted to follow along! Hope you enjoy!
Ps. I am in no way an expert when it comes to signing so I may do something wrong unintentionally! After all, this is a “learning” project!
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Hailie Logan 
I love your title, this is so catchy i could not wait to read your blog. I feel ASL is an important language and can’t wait until it is an official language of the university. I feel your effort and resources are inspiring to me to want to learn it on my own as well. Great work Hailie!
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Thanks so much Melanie! Glad someone else thought my title was funny!! I totally agree that ASL is so important! Its a lot harder to learn than I ever thought but I think in the long run, it will definitely come in handy in a classroom!
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This is such a cool learning project! I can only imagine how challenging it would be to learn! Great job, excited to see what else you learn!
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Thanks, Melissa! I do enjoy it, but it definitely is tough!
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I agree with Mel! The title is awesome! I giggled when I read it lol. You are coming a long way! I know sometimes it may not seem like it, but you are! You have persevered and it will pay off!
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